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I would love to see an agreement on the supposed number of (unarmed) civilians killed. Over the course of the past few months, I have heard claims of thousands

by Cyph0n 4mo ago

I would love to see an agreement on the supposed number of (unarmed) civilians killed. Over the course of the past few months, I have heard claims of thousands up to 50k. You would think the traffic and surveillance cams hacked by the Israelis would’ve shown the extent of this bloodbath. https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-security-cameras-surveillance-5f9a1fe5845d94894f3edd50af560d3a https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-security-cameras-surveil...

ceejayoz 4mo ago
No one’s putting a public traffic cam in the regime’s secret detention sites.
- Cyph0n 4mo ago
  Ah, so now none of the protesters were gunned down in the streets? How convenient. > As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll. https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/ https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-... Imagine infiltrating the Iranian surveillance camera network and being unable to produce footage of 30k people massacred across two days. I do not like Iran because of its actions in Syria and Yemen, but even with my bias, I could hear the bullshit Western elitist consent manufacturing engine starting up from miles away.
  - orwin 4mo ago
    Yeah, the 30k number is hogwash, but HR NGOs and OSINT volunteers worked up 7k dead in protest over 50 days, including 200 police/military forces, and a maximum of 18k death if you count the fights against separatist/freedom fighter/terrorists (depending on who you are aligned with, choose the description you like more)
    - jameshilliard 4mo ago
      > the 30k number is hogwash 30k is one estimate of actual deaths, it's expected to be higher than any verified number of deaths. Most estimates fall into the range of 20k to 40k from my understanding so 30k is certainly plausible.
      - orwin 4mo ago
        The absolute maximum number of deaths imputable to the IRGC during the winter revolt is 18k. Of that, only 7k have been verified, and of that, only 6k have been from protesters. The reason the 11k have been harder to verify is that most of them were in the fringe of the country, far from hospital, in rural area, and the fighting there was intense. A good part of the unverified 11k might have been civilians caught in the crossfire (an element of propaganda from the IRGC in Baluchistan is that separatists are terrorists targeting civilians, which is 'funny' (very relatively) because it looks a lot like western usual propaganda)
        jameshilliard 4mo ago
        > The absolute maximum number of deaths imputable to the IRGC during the winter revolt is 18k. Source? I'm curious how you could even verify an absolute maximum given the IRGC/Regime has heavily suppressed information relating to deaths.
        orwin 4mo ago
        HRANA and other watchdogs who actually have people in Iran. [Edit] https://www.en-hrana.org/the-crimson-winter-a-50-day-record-of-irans-2025-2026-nationwide-protests/ https://www.en-hrana.org/the-crimson-winter-a-50-day-record-... It's even better documentation that i thought, they added the methodology now. If I remember correctly, the methodology from the NYT and other western MSM was 'the last time, IRGC said 80 death and HRANA said 800, so now since the IRGC recognise 3k death, it should be 30k!' which was then amplified to 40, 50 and even 60k from an Israeli outlet, in 3 days, when the protests and insurgency lasted over 50 days. Honestly I don't trust any numbers if it's published in an American outlet anymore. I now trust 'house of Saoud' more than WaPo or NYT.
  - _DeadFred_ 4mo ago
    Some of the people the theocratic Islamic Regime murdered for wanting a little bit of freedom. https://www.bbc.com/persian/resources/idt-c005edd8-7204-4c74-a478-f9d719519b00 https://www.bbc.com/persian/resources/idt-c005edd8-7204-4c74...

by Cyph0n 4mo ago

ceejayoz 4mo ago

No one’s putting a public traffic cam in the regime’s secret detention sites.

Cyph0n 4mo ago
Ah, so now none of the protesters were gunned down in the streets? How convenient. > As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll. https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/ https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-... Imagine infiltrating the Iranian surveillance camera network and being unable to produce footage of 30k people massacred across two days. I do not like Iran because of its actions in Syria and Yemen, but even with my bias, I could hear the bullshit Western elitist consent manufacturing engine starting up from miles away.
- orwin 4mo ago
  Yeah, the 30k number is hogwash, but HR NGOs and OSINT volunteers worked up 7k dead in protest over 50 days, including 200 police/military forces, and a maximum of 18k death if you count the fights against separatist/freedom fighter/terrorists (depending on who you are aligned with, choose the description you like more)
  - jameshilliard 4mo ago
    > the 30k number is hogwash 30k is one estimate of actual deaths, it's expected to be higher than any verified number of deaths. Most estimates fall into the range of 20k to 40k from my understanding so 30k is certainly plausible.
    - orwin 4mo ago
      The absolute maximum number of deaths imputable to the IRGC during the winter revolt is 18k. Of that, only 7k have been verified, and of that, only 6k have been from protesters. The reason the 11k have been harder to verify is that most of them were in the fringe of the country, far from hospital, in rural area, and the fighting there was intense. A good part of the unverified 11k might have been civilians caught in the crossfire (an element of propaganda from the IRGC in Baluchistan is that separatists are terrorists targeting civilians, which is 'funny' (very relatively) because it looks a lot like western usual propaganda)
      - jameshilliard 4mo ago
        > The absolute maximum number of deaths imputable to the IRGC during the winter revolt is 18k. Source? I'm curious how you could even verify an absolute maximum given the IRGC/Regime has heavily suppressed information relating to deaths.
        orwin 4mo ago
        HRANA and other watchdogs who actually have people in Iran. [Edit] https://www.en-hrana.org/the-crimson-winter-a-50-day-record-of-irans-2025-2026-nationwide-protests/ https://www.en-hrana.org/the-crimson-winter-a-50-day-record-... It's even better documentation that i thought, they added the methodology now. If I remember correctly, the methodology from the NYT and other western MSM was 'the last time, IRGC said 80 death and HRANA said 800, so now since the IRGC recognise 3k death, it should be 30k!' which was then amplified to 40, 50 and even 60k from an Israeli outlet, in 3 days, when the protests and insurgency lasted over 50 days. Honestly I don't trust any numbers if it's published in an American outlet anymore. I now trust 'house of Saoud' more than WaPo or NYT.
- _DeadFred_ 4mo ago
  Some of the people the theocratic Islamic Regime murdered for wanting a little bit of freedom. https://www.bbc.com/persian/resources/idt-c005edd8-7204-4c74-a478-f9d719519b00 https://www.bbc.com/persian/resources/idt-c005edd8-7204-4c74...