The Islamic Republic's Endless Crimes: The Bloody Suppression of Protests, From Bullets to Thousands of Deaths and Arrests

Thousands of deaths from war bullets, thousands of detainees with unknown fates, and extrajudicial executions are just a small part of the endless crimes of the Islamic Republic, which no global media outlet can hide.

According to the latest reports published by some human rights organizations, the number of people killed in the protests in Iran in the last two days has exceeded 3,000, only their identities have been confirmed, emphasizing that the actual number of deaths is much higher.

The Iran Human Rights report (an independent human rights organization) says: "There are at least 3,428 confirmed deaths, and more than 10,000 detainees have also been recorded."

Some independent sources have also reported figures between 12,000 and 15,000 deaths, which cannot yet be accurately verified due to limited information, but some reports indicate a figure of over 15,000 deaths.

 The HRANA report states that protests have occurred in more than 187 cities in all 31 provinces of Iran, and more than 18,000 arrests have been reported, some of whom have been transferred to unknown locations and have an unknown fate.

According to human rights reports and independent local sources, at least six people have been killed in the city of Azna in Lorestan province in the past day. At least 11 Kurdish citizens have also been killed in the towns of Kohdasht and Noorabad-e Delfan.

The provinces of Kermanshah, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Lordegan, Fars, Shahr-e Mardasht, Isfahan, Qom, Hamedan, Ilam, Khuzestan, Tehran, Karaj, Shahriar, Mallard, Shiraz and its suburbs, Rasht, and many other cities were subjected to deadly attacks and repression by the Islamic Republic.

These statistics are only a fraction of the cases that have been independently confirmed so far, through public reports and video broadcasts via Starlink Internet; however, internet shutdowns and government censorship have meant that the names of many cities and those killed have not yet been announced.

Field reports also indicate that security forces and plainclothes forces have been targeting protesters and even non-protesters by firing directly into the crowd. In addition to civilian protesters, children are also among the casualties.

At the same time, thousands of people, including teachers, workers, students, women, and people of different ethnicities, have been detained, many of whom are being held in unknown conditions.

While the Iranian government makes claims about the "12-day war" with Israel, the actual death toll from domestic protests has been much higher, exceeding 12,000 according to field reports, and this repression is not even comparable to official wars.

"It is emphasized that the official death toll in Israel's war against Iran has not been published, but the media has pointed to lower casualties in that war; however, in contrast, in domestic protests, this figure is rapidly increasing."

This wave of protests is one of the bloodiest repressions in recent Iranian history, with thousands killed, tens of thousands detained, and the suppression of free access to information. These announced statistics are only a “drop in the ocean of reality,” and many families are still waiting for the world to hear.

Some reports from the city of Rasht indicate that in the last two days, many young people have been directly targeted by security forces. Some of the confirmed deaths are as follows:

"Mehdi Gadimi (Babel), Saeed Mirzaei, Ebrahim Qayumi, Saeed Ebrahimi, Negin Gadimi, Aydin Dolatkhah, Surena Golgoon, Mehdi Delkhosh, Taban Rehravan, Ali Sedighi, Amir Shukoori, Bahram Zahedi, Masoud Zatparvar, Mojtaba Ghorbani, Milad Gholamzadeh, Mobin Yaqoobzadeh and many others whose identities have not yet been established. In addition to these detainees, there are many others for whom no information is available about their whereabouts or fate."

Some of the independently confirmed names, broken down by city, include the following individuals:

Khodadad Shirvani from Fars Province, Reza Moradi Abdolvand from Aznai from Lorestan, Rasoul and Reza Kadvirian from Kermanshah, Ahmad Jalil, Sajjad and Lamanesh from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, and many others who have not yet been fully identified.