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In the largest killing in Iran’s contemporary history – carried out largely over two consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday, January 8 and 9 – at least 12,000 people were killed.
In terms of geographic scope, intensity of violence, and the number of deaths in a short time span, this killing is unprecedented in Iran’s history.
Based on information received, those killed were mainly shot by forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij.
This killing was fully organized, not the result of “sporadic” and “unplanned” clashes.
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The only thing anyone should take from this right now is that we don’t know how many people have been killed. There are so many varried numbers reported and very few places without a political agenda to get info from. I don’t think anyone truly knows, all we know is that a lot of people have been killed and that will continue to happen.