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NEW horror stories from Iran’s crackdown on protesters have emerged as Donald Trump came under renewed pressure to avenge a “football stadium” of fatalities.
Evil Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was revealed to have ordered death squads to “show no mercy” at the height of anti-regime demos on January 8.
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And his Republican Guard are now reported to have answered his call by slaughtering a staggering 36,500 freedom fighters – and deliberately blinding children in the crowds.
Chilling new reports of atrocities on a record scale are emerging as the oppressed nation remains cloaked by the Islamist state’s internet blackout.
Republican Guard and their Basij death squad comrades were reported to have toured hospitals to drag away or execute wounded protesters.
Hospitals across the nation ran out of body bags and trucks were drafted in to take away the dead after ambulance services were overwhelmed, sources inside Iran revealed.
Video showed thugs patrolling on motorbikes roaring into crowds firing birdshot pellets into the faces of young protesters to deliberately blind or maim them.
Nationwide, an estimated 7,400 people were admitted to hospital with serious eye injuries, according to medics dodging the news blackout to smuggle out information.
Farabi Eye Hospital in capital Tehran – a national hub for ophthalmology – registered 500 cases of eye injury from pellets in the night of January 8 alone.
A surgeon working there – who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals – wept as he told how he “wished for death” as he removed both eyes from a wounded 13-year-old.
A doctor in Isfahan also poured out his pain in a text message seen by the New York Times.
He told of “young people whose brains were smashed with live bullets, a mom who was shot in the neck, her two small children were crying in the car, a child whose bladder, hip and rectum was crushed with a bullet.”
The doctor added: “What I witnessed will forever haunt me – I feel guilty that I’m alive.”
Motorcycle girl and Influencer Diana Bahador was reported to be among the tens of thousands killed by the Iranian regime.
Diana, a popular Instagramer with more than 100,000 followers, was shot dead by regime forces during a demo, friends said.
Another 12-minute video smuggled out of the overflowing Kahrizak morgue shows a distraught father looking for his murdered son shouting: “Khamenei, you bastard — you are a criminal.”
Iran International monitors said they saw a report presented on January 21 to the Iranian parliament that put the number of dead at over 27,500.
Two sources from the Supreme National Security Council also told the news outlet that brutal Republican Guards reported the toll to be 33,000 or 36,500 last week.
But Iran’s crown prince Reza Pahlavi – who wants to return from exile in Washington to a UK-style democratic monarchy in his tormented homeland – claims the slaughter is even worse.
Pahlavi – son of the late Shah who was deposed by the mullahs in 1979 – said: “I’ve spoken to activists and political prisoners inside and the numbers as I feared are far greater than reported.
“The latest we’ve got from them and medical authorities is a total of 300,000 wounded and 50,000 killed nationwide — 15,000 in Tehran alone.
“America fought seven and a half years in Vietnam and lost 58,000 Americans, we’re seeing this number killed in a matter of days.
“And this is not a foreign war — it’s a regime killing its own citizens, shooting unarmed citizens with Kalashnikovs and assault rifles, shooting bullets in their faces and eyes. It’s a horror story.”
Sources in Iran told The Sun that two hospital nurses found to have pictures of dead and wounded on their phones were arrested by security forces.
One was executed on Sunday as Khamenei’s assassins continued to hunt down, drag off and and execute wounded protesters found on wards.
The Sun’s source said: “I have a friend who is wounded and his wife who treated some protestors. They are really scared.
“Homes are raided for the footage of their home security cameras. If the footages are deleted, they arrest people.
“People are getting arrested and after a few days their relatives get a call to come and get their bodies.
“They are killing people without any trials. They put the time of death on January 8 to 10 in their death certificates.”
Another source with contacts in Iran told The Sun: “The figures are looking more disturbing by the hour as we receive reports from under the internet blackout.
“The regime claims around 3,000 died including many of their security forces but the reality is a toll as big as a football stadium of people massacred or executed. The nation is in despair.”
Two US aircraft carriers and scores of warjets – including British Typhoon fighters – were converging on the Middle East as Trump weighed up options after pledging “help is on the way.”
But Iran vowed to hit back with a missile blitz if attacked, pledging “all out war” against US and Israeli targets amid renewed World War III fears.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei also dismissed reports of huge death tolls a “Hitler-style BIG LIE.”
In a post to the social media platform X, Baqaei wrote, “Isn’t this the number they planned to kill in the streets of Iran?!
“They failed, though, and now they’re trying to FAKE it in the media. Truly vicious!”
Weak and cornered Ayatollah Khamenei was reported to have ordered security forces on January 9 to “crush” the mass demonstrations in the country by “any means necessary.”
Two unnamed Iranian officials with knowledge of the leader’s instructions claimed his instruction included the message “shoot to kill and to show no mercy.”
Protests in Iran began on December 28, triggered by the collapse of the country’s currency and a cost of living crisis swept the country for more than two weeks.
But Khamenei appeared to have terrorised protesters into submission with no new demos reported.
A new mural warning the US not to launch a military strike on Iran was also unveiled in a square in the centre of capital Tehran.
The painted image showed damaged planes on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier with the slogan: “If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind.”
Trump said he was keeping strike options open, warning any new military action would make last June’s US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites “look like peanuts”.
Kimia Alizadeh, an Iranian-born Olympic athlete also shared harrowing accounts of the aftermath of the protests.
The Olympian said she had been contacted by a lawyer in Tehran, who told her that several thousand people are being held in large warehouse-like halls in Kahrizak – many of them young – on death row.
Citing her contact, she said they are being “executed in groups” without a trial or any due process.
“Afterwards, they are registered as ‘killed on previous days’ before being transferred,” Alizadeh wrote on X.
“There is no trial. No due process. There is no real court. A so-called forensic authority retroactively approves the cause of death for previous days.
“The executions have not stopped, because there is no functioning court to stop them. Our hearts and eyes are filled with blood, grief, and rage.”
This comes after The Sun reported that there are fears of mass graves being dug up in the Iranian capital to hide the large number of fatalities.
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