Several organizations denounce hundreds of deaths in the protests in Iran, which remains without Internet

International Editorial.- Several NGOs have reported this Sunday that the deaths due to the repression of the protests in Iran would be counted in the "hundreds". The citizen demonstrations against the Government continued during the past night, while the country remains without Internet access. It has been two weeks of massive protests, encouraged by Reza Pahvali, son of the last Shah of Persia, who has encouraged Iranians to continue demonstrating and to start a general strike to subdue the Islamic Republic of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) raised to 192 the number of deaths due to government repression this Sunday.

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The organization, based in Oslo (Norway), said it had confirmed the deaths through "direct sources" and "two other independent media outlets".

According to a testimony from victims' families published this Sunday by the website of the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO), based in Oslo (Norway), the bodies in the morgues would reach "hundreds", the majority "young people between 18 and 22 years old who were shot at close range". This is how the parents of Rubina Aminian, a 23-year-old Kurdish-Iranian student murdered on the afternoon of Thursday, January 8, during the protests in Tehran, recounted it. They went to the capital to identify their daughter's remains and had access to the morgue, according to the NGO's account. For its part, Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which operates from the United States, stated on Saturday that the number of confirmed deaths during the demonstrations amounts to 116, despite the interruption of the flow of information caused by the internet outages. HRANA assured in its latest information that the peak of the protests was reached last Thursday, January 8, after at least 96 demonstrations in 27 of the country's 31 provinces, which led the ayatollah regime to suspend internet connections and international telephony. As of today, these cuts continue.

More than 200 "terrorist leaders" arrested

Some videos that the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights is spreading on social media show massive night marches in several parts of Iran, one of them verified in Tehran last night. For its part, the Iranian Tasnim agency, linked to the Islamic regime and one of the few that updates its content in the midst of the blockade, reported this Sunday the death of eight members of the security forces between Wednesday and Thursday last week due to "attacks with firearms" and other objects. According to this media outlet, several government sources confirmed the detention of nearly 200 leaders of "terrorist groups" and confiscated "a considerable amount of ammunition, weapons, grenades and Molotov cocktails in the rioters' hideouts." They also published part of the intervention of the Iranian president, Masud Pezeshkian, this Sunday during his meeting with the Omani Foreign Minister, in which he accused the United States and Israel of attacking the unity between Islamic countries and creating division abroad "to fulfill their sinister objectives".

Trump threatens to intervene if repression continues

The Islamic Republic has been facing a wave of protests since last December 28, originating in the economic crisis due to the fall in the price of the currency (rial) and high inflation, among other things.

As the days passed, the demonstrations also took on a political tone of criticism of the ayatollahs' regime, encouraged from abroad by one of the sons of the deposed shah. Reza Pahlavi has once again called on Iranians to demonstrate on the afternoon of this Sunday in the centers of the country's cities and assured that he has received "reliable" information indicating that the Islamic Republic is beginning to run out of "mercenaries" to deal with the "millions" of people who are protesting. In a new video in Persian uploaded to his X account, with written translation into English, Pahlavi, who has lived in exile since the Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei overthrew his father in 1979, assured that the "broad and brave" presence of citizens in the streets of Iran has managed to weaken the "repressive apparatus" of the regime. From the U.S., Secretary of State Marco Rubio first, and President Donald Trump later, have openly expressed their support for the protesters.

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Trump has even threatened to intervene in the country in favor of the protesters if the repression continues. "The U.S. is ready to help!", wrote the president on his social network Truth Social.

The Army prepares for the "plot" of the USA

The Iranian Army has warned that it will seriously confront any "plot" sponsored by the United States to incite instability and disrupt the security of the Islamic Republic. In a statement reported by the Iranian Tasnim agency, the Army urged the population to "remain vigilant" and thwart "hostile plots seeking to incite instability and unrest" in the country. According to the military command, the "aggressive" and "perverse" United States government has hatched conspiracies to regain its dominance over the Iranian people, and defended that Washington has joined the "criminal Zionist regime", in reference to Israel, and "terrorist groups" to disrupt the security of the Islamic Republic of Iran.