Journalists note that 16.5 thousand died and another 330 thousand were injured during mass protests, according to a report by Iranian doctors working at the scene.
Most people were killed or injured during Tehran's two days of “massacre” of protesters. One of these days is January 9, which is the day after the Internet was shut down throughout Iran.
Most of the victims were under 30 years old, the media claims. Among them, in particular, a female fashion designer, young football players and a film director.
Many of them were killed at their first protest in their lives, the media notes.
One of the authors of the report by doctors from Iran, Professor Amir Parasta, said that, unlike the 2022 protests, when Iranian security forces used rubber bullets, this time they fired live ammunition.
People were wounded in the head, neck and chest, “this is a whole new level of cruelty,” he said. According to Parasta, doctors who work at the scene are “shocked and crying,” even those who “saw the war.”
According to journalists, protesters in Iran were shot by both the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the “militias” controlled by them (including from Iraq) on motorcycles and pickup trucks. The IRGC forces “calmly aimed at people’s heads,” the media draws attention.
The Times writes that information from doctors from Iran comes through the Starlink satellite communication systems of the American company SpaceX, about 55 thousand terminals of which were brought to Iran illegally.
