Death toll rises over 33,000 in Iran as chief points chilling warning to Trump
Shocking new figures from the deadly protests in Iran have revealed a staggering 33,000 people have been killed as the brutal regime continues to crack down on the country’s uprising.
Previous estimates had suggested between 16,500 and 18,000 people had been killed within two weeks of unrest; however, that figure has risen to around 31,100. The shocking statistics come as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s regime threatened war if the US took any action against what’s happened in the country.
Demonstrations in Iran started in multiple cities on December 28 last year, initially sparked by frustration over record-high inflation, food prices and currency depreciation.
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Beginning with protests by shopkeepers and merchants in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, later joined by university students, the demonstrations soon spread to major cities.
However, the government regime has responded in a brutal and vicious crackdown, and almost 100,000 people have been injured, and thousands have been killed as a result.
A source in touch with protest groups in Iran described the numbers as a ‘genocide’.
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They said: “The latest figures are off the scale. This was genocide.”
As well as the deaths, 97,645 have been wounded, with 30 per cent having eye injuries, the research by Prof Amir-Mobarez Parasta found.
The German- Iranian eye surgeon and human rights campaigner also said the regime was executing protesters — in defiance of warnings from US President Donald Trump.
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Hospital admissions data showed 468 were put to death in Tehran alone, with more than 500 elsewhere in the country.
Trump has said that a US ‘armada’ is heading to the Middle East and claimed Washington is watching Iran closely.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and several guided-missile destroyers continue to move towards the Middle East.
US military chiefs at Centcom are said to be drawing up plans and are understood to have arrived in Israel.
But an Iranian official said the country would treat any attack “as an all-out war against us”.
Meanwhile, more than 100 protesters yesterday gathered outside Downing Street to call on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be proscribed by the UK Government.
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