The Human Rights Activists News Agency said Sunday (Jan. 18) it has verified at least 3,919 deaths during a massive wave of protests that swept Iran in recent weeks, and fears the number could be significantly higher. Other human rights groups and insiders estimate that between 12 and 15,000 people were killed.
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Demonstrations that began in late December have reportedly subsided as “an extraordinarily violent crackdown by Iranian security forces appears to have succeeded for now in driving protesters from the streets.” Foreign Policycalls the regime’s response “the greatest massacre in modern Iranian history.”
Why would a government kill so many of its own people?
How can it do so and survive?
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Jim Denison and originally published by Denison Forum. Used with permission.
