Iran official says 2k people have been killed in unrest(www.reuters.com)
54 pointsby JumpCrisscross25 days ago8 comments
  • Kelteseth25 days ago
    One of the biggest German news portals report up to 12.000

    https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/internationale-p...

    • Bender25 days ago
      Adding that there will be upwards of another 10,000 executed on Wednesday per the Iranian government. They are already lining streets with body bags of people to discourage anyone else from protesting but I suspect that will only increase the protesting.
      • Bender21 days ago
        Hangings aborted. Now they are just mass killing all protestors. [1] This may indeed be a TACO.

        [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWijkGX0Mdo

      • hermanzegerman25 days ago
        I hope the protestors liberate them before these assholes kill them.
        • Bender24 days ago
          The protestors are the ones being executed. They are being taken into a large metal corral of sorts and one can hear the AK-47. The plan for Wednesday was to hang a bunch of them. Iran has strict control over firearms so most of their citizens are mostly soft targets since they do not appear to have enough combined combat knowledge to take the guns from the police.

          We are basically just waiting on Donald Trump to uphold his promise he would do something but thus far that has just been sanctions.

      • NedF25 days ago
        [dead]
  • lordleft25 days ago
    If you need to murder thousands of people to legitimate your regime, your regime ain't legitimate.
    • stevehawk25 days ago
      To quote the current US administration - One of ours, All of yours
      • d3vnull25 days ago
        That's terrible...
    • jifow25 days ago
      Speaking as someone who knows people on both sides:

      It's going to be very hard to convince most iranians that this is anything other than Israel/USA backed terrorism. Especially with Israel and the US openly bragging about backing it.

      It doesn't help that they're probably mostly right. And looking at the genocide in gaza and how many of the people backing the protest are basically holocaust deniers, it looks really horrible to much of the islamic world.

      • throwaway3742625 days ago
        For anyone who’s reading this, I speak Persian. If you translate the Iranian state media propaganda, it’s basically the same. That should tell you everything you need to know about the credibility of such comments.
      • logankeenan25 days ago
        > how many of the people backing the protest are basically holocaust deniers

        I don’t understand this? My assumption is that hardliners in Iran would be holocaust deniers and not want the regime to fall?

  • GaggiX25 days ago
    For a comparison Iran reported "200 killed" in the Mahsa Amini protests.
    • gus_massa25 days ago
      More context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests

      > ... associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but by spring 2023, the protests had largely subsided ...

      > At least 551 people had been killed as of 15 September 2023, according to Iran Human Rights, including women and at least 68 minors.

  • xenospn25 days ago
    I don’t think the IRGC is going anywhere anytime soon. Would love to be proven wrong.
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  • kakacik25 days ago
    russian allies (or at least enemies of their enemies) are falling one by one... moscow must be very happy as their area of projection shrinks day by day
    • solumunus25 days ago
      They’ve recently gained a huge ally in the USA, so that should help offset the losses.
      • Waterluvian25 days ago
        The USA is notoriously unreliable these days. I wouldn’t count on them for much.
    • nubg25 days ago
      As Putin's 3 day SMO approaches its 5th year
  • ghusto25 days ago
    I was hopeful they'd get there this time, but that's it, this one's over.

    12,000 killed, more to be executed. Then you have Trump saying they're ready to make a deal.

    A deal with the USA is the nail in the coffin.

  • ukblewis24 days ago
    honestly wtf is the reason that this is flagged? Hacker News mods don’t like seeing stories about dead Iranians?