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Iranian soccer team carries backpacks to protest the strikes on an elementary school in Iran
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Iran murdered Thousands oft protestes a few months ago.
We all know that they don't care about their people.
Not questioning that they killed protesters, but I've yet to see any kind of reputable sources backing up the absurd totals that some have reported.
proof?
whenever you repeat baseless lies, remember to append at least two sources to it.
Whenever you don't want to accept the truth, remember to shut up please.
Here, pick one... I assume, you will declare all of them as not credible or some similar bullshit...
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/iran-protests-death-toll-disappeared-bodies-mass-burials-30000-dead
https://abcnews.com/International/iranians-detail-deadly-crackdown-after-internet-blockade/story?id=129536428
https://time.com/7345347/iran-protests-death-toll-estimate-thousands/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r4957rq8ro
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/21/at-least-3117-people-killed-during-iran-protests-state-media-reports
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/middleeast/iran-memorials-protesters-crackdown.html
They're a .mler — you didn't provide sources that were Russian or Chinese so lol get wrecked.
If you don't want to accept that your government lies and you blindly believe it, remember to shut up please.
You preemptively dismissed the notion that they are not credible as bullshit, do better. That's very intellectually dishonest.
Your first source, claiming the ridiculous 36,500 figure, is a London based Saudi funded progranda channel.
The second highest figure, repeated by all the other western media, comes from HRANA, which is US based with undisclosed funding. Their parent organization clearly says on their website that they receive funding from CIA-linked National Endowment for Democracy
https://www.hra-iran.org/introduction/
Totally trustworthy.
You are a troll and probably don't even knew what my government is. I could give you the same news from European countries, but you wouldn't accept that either.
You'd accept the Iranian newspaper that would not even mention the protests at all.
So sad that people like you prioritize their agenda over rationalism...
The Iranian government openly admitted to over 3k deaths, what are you suggesting?
Indeed very sad.
Great. That matches my first comment:
But your first source is a Saudi funded progranda channel claiming over 30k. You are war mongering, whether you like to admit it or not.
They don't claim to have "murdered" thousands, they claim under 3,000 civilians AND security personnel were killed, leaving 690 of the dead labeled as Israeli/US funded terrorists or armed instigators.
And the US/Israel has been openly talking about installing the son of last puppet removed in the last revolution, and the CIA has a reputation for doing exactly that, so it's not ridiculous.
You don't have to trust Iran, and I'm not defending the Iranian government, but stop bending backwards to accept the imperialist US narrative.
If we aggregate the information, we will probably reach a range that this Wikipedia article mentions of 7k to 36k deaths.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres
Calling protesters "agents from other countries" is the 1x1 of authoritarian regimes BTW. Belarus, Russian, Iran... They all do that all the time.