Efforts to establish the death toll in the Iranian protests are confounded by the regime’s internet blockade, but even the most conservative estimates take the tally way beyond some of the most brutal political crackdowns in modern history.
A week after Iran’s authoritarian leaders moved to crush the antigovernment protests, human-rights groups say they are piecing together evidence of what looks set to be the deadliest episode of political repression in the country since the 1980s, when the Iranian government executed thousands of political prisoners as it consolidated power in the wake of the 1979 revolution.
Death counts vary widely, but consensus is building that thousands of people have been killed. Even the lowest estimates—between 2,000 and 3,000—have surged past the death tolls in unrest during protests in 2019 and 2022.
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