Over 16,000 Iranian Protesters Killed by Regime, Over 300K Injured, Times of London Analysis Reveals
Even the Mullah regime admits the number of dead is over 5000.
The Iranian regime has killed nearly 16,500 protesters and injured 330,000 as it tries to quell nationwide unrest, The Sunday Times of London reported, citing the testimonies of doctors on the ground.
The regime forces, bolstered by Hezbollah and other foreign fighters, have been gunning down demonstrators in cities across Iran as the regime blocks people’s access to the internet and phones. The newspaper called it a “genocide under digital darkness,” referring to the near-total internet blackout imposed by Tehran since last Friday.
“Entire families were shot dead in their cars.”
HORRIFIC: New reports from doctors in Iran reveal that at least 16,500–18,000 protesters were killed by Khamenei’s regime, including children and pregnant women, and 330,000 were injured, according to The Sunday Times.
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Unable to cover up the carnage left behind by the security forces, the regime has now raised the official death toll to 5,000. “At least 5,000 people have been killed in protests in Iran, including about 500 security personnel, an Iranian official in the region said on Sunday,” Reuters reported.
On Friday, Iran’s ruler Ayatullah Khamenei admitted that ‘thousands’ have been killed during the unrest, which he claimed is ‘an American conspiracy’ against his regime.
On 15 Jan 2026 Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said that he’s on “the ground” and claims of thousands killed were baseless, saying deaths were in the hundreds.
On 17 Jan 2026, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei said several thousand people had been killed.
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The British newspaper reported:
The Sunday Times [of London] has obtained a new report from doctors on the ground, which says at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 have been injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.
Most of the victims are thought to have been younger than 30. (…) The doctors spoke using Starlink — satellite technology produced by Elon Musk’s SpaceX that enables people to access the internet via terminals, bypassing traditional internet infrastructure. (…)
The doctors’ testimony, as well as graphic video, was provided to The Sunday Times by Parasta as it is too risky for people on the ground to speak to outsiders. (…)
The accounts reflect the scenes in graphic videos that have emerged from Iran in recent days, as well as voicenotes, and descriptions by some witnesses crossing the border into Turkey. They tell of IRGC forces and its Basij militia on motorbikes using live ammunition from Kalashnikovs and even machineguns mounted on pick-up trucks to mow people down. There were reports, too, of Hashd al Shaabi, Shia militias from Iraq, being bussed in.
Figures compiled by staff in eight major eye hospitals and 16 emergency departments across the country reveal that at least 16,500-18,000 people have been killed and 330,00 to 360,000 injured, including children and pregnant women. At least 700 to 1,000 people have lost an eye. One eye hospital in Tehran alone, Noor Clinic, has documented 7,000 eye injuries. “There are so many shotgun-related eye injuries that we do not know whom to treat first,” said one ophthalmologist.
Basij militia have been reportedly dragging bodies from the street and taking them to other cities for burial so there is no record, or demanding large sums — such as the one paid by the couple to see their dead daughter.
The regime forces, led by the Islamic Guard (IRGC), have been carrying out mass killings since protests escalated last Friday, when hundreds and thousands of people took to the streets of Tehran and other cities calling for an end to the Islamic rule.
Lorestan, Saturday, January 17; Deployment of machine guns and heavy military equipment by the IRGC. The message repeated on loudspeakers: "We will kill the rioters." pic.twitter.com/Vi71zjJPRj
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) January 18, 2026
The Khamenei regime wants the country to remain sealed off from the rest of the world as it quells the uprising with deadly force and covers up its crimes against the Iranian people. Tehran wants to extend the internet blackout ‘permanently,’ with media reports suggesting that it will not be easy for at least 2 more months.
“The government has not said when internet services will return, but new reports suggest that, behind the scenes, the authorities may be making plans to restrict it permanently,” the BBC reported Sunday. “On 15 January, the news website IranWire reported that government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani told journalists that international web access will not be available until at least the Iranian New Year in late March.”
An Iranian human rights group estimated that some 20,000 people have been arrested as the regime paves the way for hundreds of public executions. “The U.S.-based Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (…) said they have confirmed 24,000 arrests,” Politico reported Sunday.
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Desperately awaiting the explanation that this is all Israel’s fault…
Ten-to-one, it’s coming.
Asperger’s Thunberg needs to give us an e-mail address for such questions!
Why the deafening silence from leftists when its muslim-on-muslim violence? Islamofascists are smiling.
Totalitarians, be they religious or political (read: lefists) are dancing. They are unable to say anything bad about the events taking place there.
They’re dreaming and wishing it was they committing violence here on all the normal people they hate and despise.
It’s that no-go region of “journalism”, like black on black violence.
Given that the UK establishment is pro-Iranian regime, I would assume that those figures have been edited down below reality.
Subotai Bahadur
More credible sources say 28,000.
I say Trump missing this moment in time will haunt him forever
If you like Ukraine, you will love Iran. Since ramping up, Qatar and SA have said “ainsaa dhalik” (انسى ذلك)…. “forget it”. Muslim shield Muslims even if the final war is between Sunni and Shia. The Left will let Africans kill Africans (Rwanda the exception), Russians kill Russians, Chinese kill Chinese, etc kill etc as long as “same”. A white person killing one minority and the world burns down. The silence tells everything. On the home front, the Islamo-Fascists (AKA Democrat Party) has its street thugs waiting. Also the Iranian sleeper cells…. if they go active, the Dems will support the Quds over Trump. Frankly, I’d pop the cork on the nuclear genie as we should have done when the embassy of captured …but that was Carter… and he was ……
I have to agree , although I don’t think there was any reasonable way the US could have intervened. The mistake Trump made was encouraging the resistance, making thinly veiled promises of helping the people then., nothing.
One small hope is that this may not be over yet.
no mistake by trump on this as they were rebelling no matter what and why shouldnt he encourage freedom lovers to try and gain freedom,, like he shuld do vs saying nothing and then being accused of…saying nothing
We need to act and screw the haters.
No we don’t really need to act. We’re not the world’s policeman or at least we shouldn’t be.
Since it’s a muslim problem let the muslims handle it. Let them put together an international force to invade Iran, There are certainly enough muslims under arms and they have plenty of weapons of all types. Let Turkey and Pakistan do something positive for once.
Never happen. They’re perfectly happy tolerating (if not directly supporting) a totalitarian regime.
agree
You are correct I believe and if they won’t do anything than neither should we.
You’re a dick
These people are being sacrificed and they want freedom.
Not only would stabilizing the region benefit us and Israel directly, but it would also be a callback to our own nation’s history when France (before it sucked) aided us in our revolution. You wouldn’t have the privilege to say “don’t lift a finger” if it wasn’t for that. Those people certainly don’t because they are being slaughtered and the government shut down the internet.
The only person who is a dick is the one making personal attacks without any cause to and guess what, that isn’t me.
Grow up.
Haters is a dehumanizing term used by leftist idiots.
would be a perfect time for the saudis to do something in their region of the word especially since there is already a divide between their islam and irans islam
This tragedy is a direct result of the unwillingness of decent people to forcefully confront evil when it arises. Too many simply prefer to ignore it, or attempt to appease it, despite the lessons of history, which clearly foretell the inevitable bloody results. Once the mask slips and the horror becomes undeniable the opportunists always attempt spin it to fit their own distorted agendas. Thus we already are hearing them blame Trump, since they are loathe to lose any podium to champion their own hatreds. Meanwhile, the dead and maimed accumulate, because the costs of tyranny always escalate until they eventually destroy them themselves once they run shy of potential victims. Short of a politically suicidal invasion, the Iranian people themselves are the only force that can remove this cancer they have permitted to grow for nearly a half century, at staggering cost.
I don’t believe a word of this. Where do you get your information? Do Iranian doctors just call you on the phone?
I’d like to see Khamenei’s reaction to receiving a strongly worded letter from Pam Blondi!
He seems so arrogant now…