US EditionIran's regime crushing protests in bloody crackdown
Authorities detained over 10,000 protesters and enforced a near-total internet blackout lasting more than 180 hours to suppress demonstrations demanding regime change.
- Iranian authorities detained over 10,000 people as the protest movement subsided following a crackdown that killed thousands amid a near-total internet blackout on January 16, 2026.
- Amid economic grievances, protests expanded as protesters began pouring into the streets from Jan 8, traced to a Tehran bazaar shutdown on Dec 28 demanding the removal of the clerical system.
- Security forces including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Basij militia and police used lethal force; despite the blackout, Starlink and smuggled video uploads showed bodies at Kahrizak Forensic Institute and a field loaded with corpses.
- The United States called an emergency UN Security Council session and the US Treasury imposed sanctions on Ali Larijani, with the White House saying `all options remain on the table for the president` on Jan 15.
- Official tallies diverge as Norway-based Iran Human Rights reports 3,428 verified deaths, while an Iranian official told Reuters about 2,000 dead, and critics warn detainees face show trials.
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Laminute.infoSince the beginning of the revolt in Iran, hospitals have received many injured demonstrators in their eyes. A symbolic practice of the Islamic regime, already observed in 2022.
The Iranian regime shut down the internet on January 8th due to anti-government protests and then began a violent crackdown on the demonstrations. The Wall Street Journal spoke to people who described how the carnage reached the streets.
Despite the internet being blocked by the regime in Iran for over a week, some videos and testimonies have been able to get out of the country. But now videos showing protests have stopped, reports the AP news agency. – I was told by several people who recently came out of Iran that the size of the protests has decreased since security forces fired indiscriminately into crowds, says SVT's Turkey correspondent Tomas Thorén.
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Iran's deadly crackdown appears to have broadly quelled protests for now, according to a rights group and residents, as state media reported more arrests on Friday in the shadow of U.S. threats to intervene if the killing continues.
While he had released pressure on the population since the summer, the regime chose brute force in the face of an unprecedented protest movement. To survive, power, isolated by the weakening of the "axis of resistance", opted for fierce repression.
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