Kiarash promised his sister-in-law that he would find the body of her sister, who went missing after one of Iran’s protests. He was escorted to a series of warehouses where bodies of mostly women and children, wrapped in body bags, were stocked like cordwood, a chilling indication of both the scale of the killings and the Islamic Republic regime’s efforts to obscure evidence.

For weeks, the Ayatollah and his brutal Islamic Republic Guard Corps have been killing peaceful, unarmed protesters en masse, firing machine guns from the rooftops into crowds of mostly women.

The sheer number of the bodies prompted Kiarash to join a protest the next day, where he narrowly escaped death. Shortly thereafter, he found a way to flee the country and share his story with the world.

The Ayatollah is conducting the deadliest crackdown in modern Iranian history. Iranian doctors and medical professionals using Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite phones reported weeks ago that the death toll was, at that time, over 65,000. The satellite phones have largely been seized, and the leakers imprisoned or butchered by the regime. And the death toll continues to rise.

The Ayatollah’s security forces are using live ammunition, including rifles and heavy machine guns, against unarmed civilians. Multiple human rights groups have documented that women are disproportionately targeted, both symbolically and physically, as part of the state’s attempt to crush dissent following years of gender-related civil resistance.

Escapees like Kairash confirm that families of victims — including women killed in the protests — were forced to pay authorities to retrieve their loved ones' bodies and forced to falsely claim that protesters were killed by “foreign terrorists.” Internet blackouts continue in an effort to further conceal evidence of state violence, and thousands of deaths remain either unreported or unverified.

The Iranian people are living in sheer terror.

It’s been over a month since President Trump encouraged the Iranian protesters, exclaiming that “Help is on the way.” But that help has never arrived, and thousands more Iranians have been slaughtered in the meantime.

Reports from the meetings held between the U.S. and Iran last Friday indicate that the protests were not mentioned at all. The Trump administration appears to be SOLELY focused on cutting a new “Iran Deal.”

Sometimes Washington, D.C., needs a little grassroots PUSH to do the right thing. Please, be a VOICE for the Iranian people and demand the Trump Administration and Congress STAND with the IRANIAN PEOPLE!

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SOURCES: 

Elwelly, Elwely, and Bo Erickson. “Trump Urges Iranians to Keep Protesting, Saying ‘Help Is on Its Way.’” Reuters, January 14, 2026. Reuters.com/world/china/iranian-mp-warns-greater-unrest-urging-government-address-grievances-2026-01-13/.

“Iran Protests: How the Uprising Unfolded and What Happened to the Victims of the Crackdown.” Sky News. Accessed February 10, 2026. News.sky.com/story/iran-protests-how-the-uprising-unfolded-and-what-happened-to-the-victims-of-the-crackdown-13495157.