Here’s what we currently understand about the situation.
According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Iranian government is employing extraordinary violence to quash the ongoing protests, though they have not provided a precise death toll.
The ISW reports that security forces have been indiscriminately firing at protesters, sometimes using machine guns, resulting in numerous fatalities across various regions.
Despite internet restrictions, some Iranians have managed to share accounts of a high number of deceased protesters visible in the streets, as well as in hospitals and morgues.
There are claims that a single morgue in Tehran holds between 700 to 1,000 bodies of protesters, which does not include other sites in the capital or throughout the country.
This anecdotal evidence aligns with the possibility that the regime’s crackdown has resulted in thousands of deaths.
