Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000: Local Officials
time.com
According to two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health who spoke with TIME.

As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll.

So many people were slaughtered by Iranian security services on that Thursday and Friday, it overwhelmed the state’s capacity to dispose of the dead. Stocks of body bags were exhausted, the officials said, and eighteen-wheel semi-trailers replaced ambulances.

The government’s internal count of the dead, not previously revealed, far surpasses the toll of 3,117 announced on Jan. 21 by regime hardliners who report directly to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (Ministries report to the elected President.) The 30,000 figure is also far beyond tallies being compiled by activists methodically assigning names to the dead. As of Saturday, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said it had confirmed 5,459 deaths and is investigating 17,031 more.

  • perestroika@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I remind of a news article back then, telling of an eye doctor in one hospital counting 400 gunshot eye injuries.

    Back when it was happening, I extrapolated that to 2000 gunshot eye injuries per city, and wondered how many cities to multiply the result by. In the end, I gave up with logic and guessed 36 000 gunshot eye injuries per Iran. And that’s strictly only gunshot eye injuries. Not neck, chest, stomach, arm or leg injuries.

    In situations were the flow of information is impaired - like by an internet blackout, which is still in force - information about the scale of events trickles out.

    I remind of the earthquake in Turkey a few years ago. At first, 50 dead were reported. As hours and days passed, communications were restored and victims counted, it became… over 50 000.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey–Syria_earthquakes

    This is how infromation arrives.

    As for the rest of your post - it is not for me, so I won’t adress it.