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Activists say more than 6,000 people killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests
Headline from Anchorage Daily News, on the newest of 3 developments
The Human Rights Activists News Agency identified the dead as including at least 5,777 protesters, 214 government-affiliated forces, 86 children and 49 civilians who weren’t demonstrating.
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Leaked photos from a mortuary in Iran show the battered and swollen faces of at least 326 victims, including 18 women, who were killed during the bloody crackdown on protesters.
More than 36,500 Iranians were allegedly killed during a brutal, two-day crackdown against anti-regime protesters, the deadliest in the history of the Islamic Republic, according to a new report.
Iranian security forces may have killed as many as 30,000 people in just two days as the regime crushed nationwide protests with gunfire and heavy weapons.
The arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and guided missile destroyers accompanying it provide the U.S. the ability to strike Iran, particularly as Gulf Arab states have signaled they want to stay out of any attack despite hosting American military personnel.
The Human Rights Activists News Agency identified the dead as including at least 5,777 protesters, 214 government-affiliated forces, 86 children and 49 civilians who weren’t demonstrating.
A US-based rights group said Tuesday it had confirmed the deaths of over 6,000 people in protests in Iran suppressed by security forces, adding it was investigating over 17,000 more potential deaths and warning a wave of arrests was ongoing.
Many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Middle East to lead any American military response to the crisis. Iran's currency, the rial, meanwhile fell to a record low of 1.5 million to $1.
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