Security forces were given free rein to use lethal force during the January 8–9 crackdown to spread fear and deter further protests in Iran, a senior government official said in a closed-door meeting, according to a source familiar with the talks.
The closed-door meeting was held to brief senior government officials and local governors on the brutal crackdown on protesters, the source told Iran International.
The senior official said security forces were given “full authority and a blank check to attack, with the aim of creating maximum fear to deter the resurgence of protests," the source said.
The order, he added, made no distinction between civilians and others.
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The senior official speaking at the meeting was presenting assessments by security bodies that sharply contradict the government’s official figures on the killings.
While the official death toll stands at nearly 3,000, classified documents and eyewitness reports reviewed by Iran International’s editorial board show that more than 36,500 people were killed during the targeted suppression of Iran’s national uprising on the orders of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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Imagine if Iran sent planes loaded with bombs to the US because of the MN protestors getting killed.
If the US government killed 36,000 protesters I would probably want them to.
I’d be s little cautious about those numbers, we all remember WMDs in Iraq and Iraquis throwing babies out of incubators.
Edit: and such statements
The statements come from an Iranian senior official. He said forces were given
“full authority and a blank check to attack, with the aim of creating maximum fear to deter the resurgence of protests.”
And the senior official speaking at the meeting was presenting
assessments by security bodies that sharply contradict the government’s official figures on the killings.
A supposed anonymous iranian senior official as quoted by the website iranintl.com in an article without author’s name on it. Are we able to cross-source that claim or have some info about that website, if it’s worth it’s words? In a situation where your only choice are state’s PR agencies and west-facing news outlets, it’s weird to unconditionally believe only one of them.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Iran massacring its civilians is not an extraordinary claim.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
So go on and provide them.
Authoritarian theistic shithole government accepted 3k people dead, so we know that’s a real deal and they can’t just silence that, alright, and the numbers are obviously over what they claim.
But some source pushes it 10x that, alleges they have some insides from within the house. And I’m not informed if it’s a legit media source or on the level of someone’s substack. No names there, nothing, even said article got posted without an author’s name on it, while they do put these on other articles. In order to trust it, and not just average it with the state’s PR team, I need some background, some cred, just something to believe they don’t make these up on the spot.
And that got posted three times by a person that gets called out for their overwhelming presence (on their main acc).
Some ordinary evidence would be sufficient in that case.
Take a remedial English course with an emphasis on rhetoric.
Go on and provide them.
Wait, this in Iran? You could forgiven if you thought it was in the US.
Not really. I get you’re using hyperbole here, but this kind of attitude is dangerous.
Scale matters. Every country is guilty of wronging its people. That doesn’t make all countries or all acts equal. If you can draw false equivalence between the US and Iran, then you can draw false equivalence between Norway and North Korea.
The US hasn’t crushed protests like China and Iran. What the US has done is very bad, but that just makes what’s described here as horrific instead.
I had to assume you were referencing the recent ICE killings. If you’re a Good Ol’ Boy still sore about being on the losing side of the Civil War, then I can see your point.
