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Jan 23, 2026
Born in Evin Prison,
Iranian Author on
Protests Against “Authoritarian,
Theocratic Regime”
Mehdi Reacts to the Intense Debate
Over Iran's Protests
Iran protests:
why it’s different
this time?
Omid Djalili
Jan 25, 2026 - As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll.
So many people were slaughtered by Iranian security services on that Thursday and Friday, it overwhelmed the state’s capacity to dispose of the dead. Stocks of body bags were exhausted, the officials said, and eighteen-wheel semi-trailers replaced ambulances.
The government’s internal count of the dead, not previously revealed, far surpasses the toll of 3,117 announced on Jan. 21 by regime hardliners ...




