“People are dying in the streets, they’re killing young people every night.”
That’s what a friend in Tehran told my family over the phone this week. “It’s a revolution, just like in 1979,” said another friend, who was there during the Islamic revolution.
Watching the news from Iran this week left one feeling both terrified and hopeful.
The protests are larger and more energetic than ever. According to a human rights activist I spoke to, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the protests in 165 cities.
The Iranian regime is imposing harsh and more tyrannical penalties against those taking a stand. They shut down the country’s internet to stifle the movement, and when that failed, they sent the Revolutionary Guards out to wage war on the protesters.
According to another dissident I spoke to on Friday, the regime has killed 251 people, injured 3,500 and more than 7,000 protesters had been arrested and detained.
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See Also:
(1) Israel Demolished Iranian Republican Guard Corps HQs in Syria in Retaliation for Rocket Attack
(2) 9 More Shot Dead as Protesters in Iraq Now Calling for Revolution
(3) Iranian commander warns US, allies, ‘We will destroy you’
(4) Will Iran Become the Next Soviet Union (As In Bankrupted by Massive Military Spending)?
