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The Iranian Government takes back the reins of the story and assures that it has already successfully repressed the massive demonstrations that broke out for weeks in numerous cities in the country and that represented one of the greatest challenges for the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. The authorities have also shared the first official death toll: 3,117a number much lower than that revealed by human rights groups.
“The sedition is over”proclaimed the attorney general of the ayatollah regime, according to the state agency Libra. “And we must be grateful, as always, to the people who quelled the sedition by being on the ground in a timely manner.”
State television broadcast reports prepared by the Ministry of the Interior and the Martyrs and Veterans Affairs Foundation, an official organization that provides services to the families of those killed in wars, in which it was stated that 3,117 people had died. In that count it was specified that 2,427 of those who died in the demonstrations were civilians and members of the security forces.
Images from recent protests in Iran show protesters riding motorcycles preparing ambushes against the regime’s repressive forces. pic.twitter.com/59wBVxXuo1
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Regarding the rest of the dead, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, indicated that they were “terrorists, rioters and those who attacked military bases.” The HRANA organization assured this Thursday that the number of confirmed deaths amounted to at least 4,902, although it is feared that there are many more.
The Iranian Veterans and Martyrs Foundation explained that many of the dead were bystanders who were shot deadwhile others were protesters “who were targeted by terrorist agents organized among the crowd.” The Islamic Republic has accused alleged mercenaries infiltrated with the support of the United States and Israel of violence in the streets and social challenge to the regime.
The authorities, faced with the escalation of tensions, decreed a total blackout of the internet and communications and launched a brutal repression that ended up appeasing the protesters by force. Amnesty International has described what happened in the protests as a “massacre”, with security forces firing from the roofs of buildings, mosques and police stations at unarmed protesters.
The US moves its fighters
Protests began in late December by Tehran merchants over the falling value of the rial and the economic crisis and soon spread across the country calling for the end of the Islamic Republic. The peak moment was reached on Thursday, January 8 and Friday, January 9, with an explosion of demonstrations in practically all of Iran. More than 26,500 people have been arrestedaccording to HRANA.
In recent days, witnesses and human rights groups have described an eerie calm which is gradually being established in the country, with shops and schools opening under a strong presence of security forces in the streets. The Government has promised that it will lift the internet blackout soon, although without offering a specific date.
On Tuesday, Iran’s foreign minister, Abás Araqchioffered Tehran’s harshest dialectical response to any possible US military action, writing in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that Iran “has no qualms about counterattacking with everything we have if we are the target of a new attack.”
In an interview with the network CNBC After participating in the Davos Forum, Donald Trump said that he hopes not to have to bomb the ayatollah regime, but promised military response if Tehran resumes military program. Their threats also stopped the execution of several hundred detained protesters.
However, according to the WSJ The US Army has sent more F-15 fighter jets and an aircraft carrier to the Middle East as the Republican president is still considering whether or not to launch military action against the heart of the Iranian regime.