US Edition‘Blood on the streets’: Iranian who fled Karaj tells of brutal crackdown on protesters
A protester from Karaj reports live fire, mass casualties, arrests, and hospital raids during Iran's violent crackdown amid an extended internet blackout, with death toll estimates exceeding 3,400.
- An anonymous protester from Karaj recounted a brutal crackdown after spending last month in Iran and fleeing, describing intense gunfire on January 8 and 9 that drove protesters off the streets following a massive January 8 march.
- The protests began on Dec. 28 because rising inflation and currency collapse fueled anger as many, including Farzat from Iran's Kurdish minority, survived on about $200 a month.
- Verified videos and eyewitnesses show bodies with bullet wounds and ABC News confirmed security-force raids on hospitals in Ilam, while a Karaj hospital received more than 80 bodies on January 8.
- Authorities enforced a near-total internet blackout for more than a week, HRANA reports around 22,000 arrested and more than 2,800 killed, and flights to and from Iran were canceled last week then resumed.
- Some Iranians expect protests to flare up again, and Mehdi Yahyanejad noted protests likely won't restart without U.S. military action amid Tehran's portrayal of casualties as "hundreds" and Khamenei calling President Donald Trump a `criminal`.
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When the Internet was turned off in Iran on January 8th, the killing began. Perhaps they enter the country's history as a fence, comparable to the Tiananmen massacre in China.
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