Iranian Regime Hunts Down Protesters as Uprising Continues
“In the hospitals, many patients were found dead on their treatment beds, still attached to machines, with bullet holes in their heads.”
The Iranian regime is hunting down protesters and dissidents as the nationwide uprising enters its seventh week. The regime forces are barging into schools, hospitals, and private homes in search of people who took part in the demonstrations.
The Islamic Guard (IRGC) henchmen were executing wounded demonstrators in their hospital beds, media reports say. “In the hospitals, many patients were found dead on their treatment beds, still attached to machines, with bullet holes in their heads,” the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday, quoting an eyewitness.
Forty days have passed.
Forty days since the Islamic Republic massacred the people of Iran.This video was sent to me from the 40th-day memorial for Parisa Lashkari and Mehrzad Nazari.
Watch how brave Iranians, despite the most brutal repression, chant
“Death to Khamenei.”Do… pic.twitter.com/pbsHU3wo1T
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) February 13, 2026
More than 50,000 Iranians have been arrested, and tens of thousands have been massacred as the Mullah regime tries to quell the protests that began in late December. The Associated Press reported Saturday that “arrests have been happening for weeks following the government crackdown last month that crushed the protests calling for the end of the country’s theocratic rule.”
The AP continued:
Reports of raids on homes and workplaces have come from major cities and rural towns alike, revealing a dragnet that has touched large swaths of Iranian society. University students, doctors, lawyers, teachers, actors, business owners, athletes and filmmakers have been swept up, as well as reformist figures close to President Masoud Pezeshkian.
They are often held incommunicado for days or weeks and prevented from contacting family members or lawyers, according to activists monitoring the arrests. That has left desperate relatives searching for their loved ones.
The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has put the number of arrests at more than 50,000. The AP has been unable to verify the figure. Tracking the detainees has been difficult since Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout, and reports leak out only with difficulty.
Other activist groups outside Iran have also been working to document the sweeps.
“Authorities continue to identify people and detain them,” said Shiva Nazarahari, an organizer with one of those groups, the Committee for Monitoring the Status of Detained Protesters.
So far, the committee has verified the names of more than 2,200 people who were arrested, using direct reports from families and a network of contacts on the ground. The arrestees include 107 university students, 82 children as young as 13, as well as 19 lawyers and 106 doctors.
Nazarahari said authorities have been reviewing municipal street cameras, store surveillance cameras and drone footage to track people who participated in the protests to their homes or places of work, where they are arrested.
The regime’s actions run contrary to the conditions laid down by President Donald Trump for a negotiated deal. In late January, he told Tehran to give up its nuclear weapons program and stop killing protesters to avoid a U.S. strike. “Number one, no nuclear. And number two, stop killing protesters,” the president said. The Pentagon has dispatched two U.S. aircraft carriers and several warships to demonstrate the president’s resolve.
With Iran stalling on nuclear talks and continuing the deadly crackdown, the U.S. armed forces are gearing up for a major military strike against the regime. “The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack,” Reuters reported Saturday, citing unnamed officials. “In a sustained campaign, the U.S. military could hit Iranian state and security facilities, not just nuclear infrastructure, one of the officials said.”
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the Islamic Republic of Iran had been “difficult” in nuclear negotiations and suggested that instilling fear in Tehran may be necessary to resolve the standoff peacefully. pic.twitter.com/4tf33Clt7j
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) February 14, 2026
While President Trump has decided to give diplomacy a chance, he declared on Friday that the regime change in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen.”
“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” President Trump said after a visit to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
“For 47 years, they’ve been talking and talking and talking,” he added. “In the meantime, we’ve lost a lot of lives while they talk. Legs blown off, arms blown off, faces blown off. We’ve been going on for a long time.”
Israel ‘prepares for war’ amid rising tensions
Amid rising tensions, Israel is bracing for ‘worst-case Iran scenario,’ Israeli media says. According to Israel’s Ynetnews, “As the diplomatic channel between the United States and Iran continues, Israel is preparing for war.”
The scenario includes Iran, in a last-ditch effort, firing its entire missile stockpile at Israel. “Israel is preparing to defend its home front if Iran talks collapse — including a scenario in which Tehran launches a massive missile barrage as a last resort,” the news outlet added.
In case of a military conflict, Tehran has threatened to attack Israel, besides targeting U.S. bases in the region.
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Never just threaten. Always follow through.
Walk softly, but carry a big stick
Where is Trump? He has brought two carriers to the region but hasn’t saved one protesters life. He promised them he would help but hasn’t done anything concrete except posture. He could have bombed a couple of military installations as a warning to STOP killing people, but didn’t. While he and his staff are “Negotiating” with the Ayatolla, he is killing people. It’s one thing to just stand by and watch but once you make a promise then by God you should act!
Tell it to the Kurds or the S Vietnamese or ..well lots of folks the USA has hyped up with ‘promises’.
Heck tell it to a larger number of Combat Veterans than we’d like to admit who are offing themselves at a rate of 18 per day. FWIW over 140K Veterans died by suicide since 2001. There’s been 22 straight years with at least 6,000 Veteran suicides.
IMO the delay is due to concerns from regional Nations who don’t want or needed time to prepare for the secondary and tertiary effects of destabilizing Iran with strikes. Iran will likely lash out at US bases in the region and potentially at Israel as well. A refugee crisis could emerge with spillover into Europe. Then there’s the more pressing concerns of EU Nations who’ve only offered tepid support quite recently b/c of their own economic ties and potential domestic unrest from their ‘migrant’ population.
Measure twice and cut once seems applicable here v ‘hold my beer, watch this’. We’ve had far too much of the latter in the past few decades.
Carriers ain’t gonna do jack. Something like this requires taking out the mullahs personally, and that is hard.Requires a lot of intel and planning.
Does the IRGC know that people don’t forget about atrocities?
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