Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC)

Due to severe communication restrictions and the ongoing internet shutdown, independent verification remains impossible at this time.

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IHRDC has learned through a source that Mohammad Ali (Sepehr) Foroughi Dehnavi, a 43-year-old pharmacist and resident of Tehran, was killed during the protests in the city.

Silence, or symbolic rebuke without enforcement, serves only to embolden further atrocities.

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In these circumstances, expressions of concern or routine condemnations by the international community are grossly inadequate. What is urgently required is decisive action—measures that impose real consequences and ensure accountability for systematic and deliberate crimes against civilians.

Such conduct places the regime outside the bounds of lawful governance and into the realm of mass repression.

The scale of this violence exposes a regime that no longer governs by consent, law, or political legitimacy, but by fear alone.

Rule by terror is not a demonstration of power; it is an admission of illegitimacy. There is scarcely any modern equivalent to the brutality of a government that massacres its own citizens on such a scale in such a brief period.

This method recalls the darkest periods of Iran’s history marked by foreign conquest, when extreme violence was used not merely to defeat opposition but to annihilate social will and preempt resistance.

The Islamic Republic Regime has adopted a strategy of “victory through fear,” having killed an estimated 12,000 peaceful protesters in just two days, using terror to enforce silence and project control.

Due to severe internet shutdowns and information suppression, the outlet stresses that final casualty figures still require further documentation, though available evidence makes the scale of the killings credible.

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The report says the killings were organized, nationwide, and carried out largely by IRGC and Basij forces, with many victims under the age of 30, and claims the operation was conducted under direct orders from Ali Khamenei with approval from senior state authorities.

the largest mass killing in Iran’s modern history, at least 12,000 protesters were killed, mainly over two consecutive nights on January 8–9.

Following days of careful verification using multiple sources—including individuals close to the Supreme National Security Council, the presidential office, members of the IRGC in several cities, medical staff, eyewitnesses, and families of victims—the outlet concludes that during

According to Iran International, Iran has entered a state of organized blackout aimed not only at security control but at concealing the truth about a historic crime.

Under international law, such responsibility cannot be evaded through propaganda, mischaracterization of evidence, or delay; accountability is both necessary and unavoidable.

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Responsibility for these acts rests with the Islamic Republic of Iran and its senior leadership, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

for the killing of hundreds of protesters.

Even amid a near-total internet shutdown and severe restrictions on international communications, mounting documentation continues to emerge evidencing widespread and systematic lethal force against civilians.

The video appears to form part of a broader, coordinated effort by state authorities to construct an alternative account in which armed elements within the protests are blamed for civilian massacre—thereby deflecting responsibility from state security forces

These assertions exceed the bounds of legitimate forensic analysis. Rather than offering scientifically grounded findings, the commentary advances a security-oriented narrative premised on conjecture and speculation.

In the video, he asserts that the gunfire originated from elevated positions and speculates that shooters—allegedly aware of protest schedules—used unfinished buildings to target demonstrators.

Regime Efforts to Shift Blame for Civilian Mass Killings

State broadcaster IRIB has released a video featuring an individual presented as a forensic medicine expert purporting to explain the fatal shooting of protesters.

The actions are described as crimes against humanity, with responsibility placed on the Iraqi Government, which pays the militias’ salaries and provides them with political and legal cover.

According to the statement, the same militias that played a criminal role in the killing of thousands of peaceful Iraqi protesters in 2019 are now acting as mercenaries for the Iranian regime, targeting protesters across Iran.

A former Iraqi government spokesperson has acknowledged the involvement of Iraqi Shia militias operating under Hashd al-Shaabi in the suppression of protests inside Iran, confirming that these forces are funded by the Iraqi state.

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the Islamic Republic’s actions in suppressing the peaceful protests constitute serious violations of international law and demonstrate patterns consistent with large-scale crimes against humanity.

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Amid an internet shutdown and the blockage of international communications, independent verification of these events is severely constrained. Nonetheless, based on the limited evidence that has reached outside Iran,

According to the source, Islamic Republic forces fired live ammunition directly at protesters’ heads, deliberately targeting the head and eyes. The footage depicts two women and one man wounded by gunfire, with the man later succumbing to his injuries. The condition of the two women remains unknown.

Targeted Killings by Regime Forces in Tehran

A video shared by Nazila Maroofiana, an Iranian journalist, on X, citing an informed source, shows injured protesters during demonstrations in Tehran.

Let the world hear us before it’s too late. Tell them that this time, the mullahs have sealed the dark fate of our generation with the red blood of our youth.

I love you. Take care of yourself. I trust you will do this well.”

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