BRAVE Iranians say the world has yet to “grasp the depth of catastrophe” of the regime’s bloody crackdown as they revealed harrowing accounts of violence.
Witnesses told The Sun how they saw the Ayatollah’s ruthless stooges gun down children, burn bodies with acid, and break the limbs of protesters.
One source said: “Please inform the world so our voice reaches everywhere about the crimes of the Islamic Republic.”
Protests early in January descended into scenes of untold bloodshed as evil Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ordered his death squads to “show no mercy”.
Panicked Khamenei – facing the biggest challenge to date to his barbaric rule – has tried to keep the oppressed nation cloaked in an internet blackout.
But despite his attempts to conceal the savagery of his death squads, courageous Iranian freedom fighters have shared chilling first-hand accounts with The Sun.
Given the immense personal risk they have put themselves under to speak out, we have changed their names or left them anonymous to protect their identities.
These accounts detail the atrocities that everyday people in Iran’s MEK Resistance Units face.
One source in the city of Shiraz told The Sun: “My brother works in a hospital. Slaughter is underway. What you see is only one-tenth of reality.
“Many were beheaded. Bodies were taken elsewhere to reduce the numbers.”
Iran’s government claims the death toll is 3,117, saying 2,427 were civilians and security forces, while the remainder were “terrorists.”
Opposition-linked outlet Iran International, which is based outside Iran, said at least 36,500 Iranians were killed as Khamenei masterminded an unprecedented crackdown.
Bodies dumped in mass graves
A source in the city of Mashhad told The Sun…
MANY were killed.
In Behesht-e Rezcan cemetery, a reliable source said graves were dug and 200 bodies were dumped into a pit and covered.
Another person killed in Mashhad was buried by them in Neyshabur.
A family secretly opened a grave to take their child to a village and found four other bodies on top of him.
On Friday [Jan 9], Farabi Hospital had 1,000 morgue signatures.
A gravestone shop said it received orders for 148 stones – birth years 1979-2007, boys and girls.
No one can grasp the depth of the catastrophe.
This mass killing has left some in a coma, we can’t even look families in the eye.
The current death toll is the highest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ousted the late Shah and delivered power into the hands of the ayatollahs.
But with an internet blackout enforced and the regime burying and burning bodies, the true grisly toll may never be known.
Ali, a medical student in Tehran, told how at the height of the protests hospital shifts were cancelled for all staff – except for a handful “trusted” by tyrannical rulers.
Children bled to death and others were left blinded or with life-changing injuries as they were left helpless without vital medical care.
He told The Sun: “Those people didn’t care at all. They didn’t even attend to children.”
In one case, a 12-year-old boy had been shot several times – but was still alive and speaking.
Doctors refused to give him life-saving blood, however, and he died.
Ali added: “His family wasn’t even allowed to be beside him. They just said, ‘Your child has been sent to Kahrizak – go identify him among the body bags.”
Another boy, just three-years-old, had severe pellet injuries to his eye and needed an immediate operation to save his vision.
Ali said doctors refused to help – and his desperate family contacted a surgeon who said they were willing to.
“The hospital was supposed to send records on a CD because the internet was cut,” he said.
“Bleeding continued for two days until documents reached the doctor – and when they did, they said the hospital sent a blank CD to leave no evidence.
“The child went blind.”
Fearing arrest as regime thugs raided hospitals, countless casualties refused to go and tried to get treatment elsewhere.
‘It was like Doomsday’
Leila, 30, told The Sun…
JANUARY 8, 9 and 10 were like Doomsday in Ahvaz.
I have no statistics on martyrs, only horrific scenes I witnessed.
On Thursday (Jan 8) in Naderi district, plainclothes agents and riot police on motorcycles began closing shops, shouting and beating people.
A taxi driver who was standing there had his car smashed with batons – what was his crime? Looking for passengers.
They intimidated ordinary people walking in the streets, shouting.
If you exchanged even a few words, they’d grab you and three or four plainclothes agents would throw you into a van – no one knew what your fate would be.
I got very close to the Tharallah Husseiniyeh; I was wearing a mask and hat – anyone would think I was a Basiji.
There I saw two girls crying: one was taking an online ride with her friend to go home when a regime agent came and grabbed their phones.
Just like that they snatch your phone. That is theft and plunder.
Many hospital patients being treated for gunshot wounds disappeared after being dragged away by security forces.
Sources in Iran also revealed the regime’s Republican Guard and Basij brutes arrested and executed doctors for treating wounded protesters.
Graphic images that emerged from the streets of Iran laid bare the sheer scale of slaughter – with bodies piling high.
Bodies of those killed by the merciless regime, meanwhile, were dumped in mass graves or hurled out of moving vehicles, witnesses say.
Others were burned with fire and acid “so no trace would remain for families”, a source said.
But for those who dodged death, their ordeals bore the hallmarks of a horror film as IRGC thugs terrorise and torture survivors.
Families forced to pay huge sums for bodies
An Iran source told The Sun…
AMIRHOSSEIN Sohrabi was killed on January 8.
Burial was on January 12. Killed by a bullet to the abdomen.
To get the body, the authorities said either you sign that he was a member of the Basij [branch of the IRGC], or you pay money.
A large sum, 800 million to over one billion rials [£140,000 to £170,000], was paid before they handed over the body.
They also said burial must be before sunrise with no gathering.
Early Monday morning, only close family buried him before sunrise.
One brave rebel said: “Our 15-year-old relative was arrested in Karaj simply because protest videos were on his phone.
“At the police station they broke his arms and legs and sent him to Ghezel Hesar prison.
“He managed to call his family and said conditions are very bad. He said he was taken the prison yard and showed the youths they had killed and burned, saying it should be a lesson.
“They then transferred him to another prison in Karaj. No one knows what’s happening in prisons – they are killing in groups and burning the bodies.”
Despite the hell they’ve faced, courageous protesters have maintained their extraordinary morale – and are still fighting for revolution and for the ageing Ayatollah, 86, to be toppled.
Protests initially erupted over the collapse of the Rial currency, before morphing into demonstrations against clerical rulers who have governed since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Even during the bloodiest days of the protests, Iranians told The Sun how they’d rather be killed than see the regime stay in power.
Ali, 22, from Tehran said: “I say this with certainty: fewer and fewer people support the regime; many young people perished.
“From every apartment, the youth were locking arms; I had never seen such solidarity in our neighbourhood.
“We’re in it, I’m no longer afraid at all – there’s nothing left to lose.”
‘Every family lost two or three loved ones’
A freedom fighter in Yazdanshahr told The Sun…
I AM from Yazdanshahr, where many people were killed.
They did not hand over the bodies; they buried them themselves.
I saw with my own eyes that they shot people in the head and then threw them from vehicles in dark, remote places.
On January 9, Yazdanshahr had more than 300 killed – countless wounded.
When I reached one young man, I first thought he had fallen from a motorcycle.
Another man said agents in a police car threw him out and drove away.
Then I looked and saw he had been shot with a DShK (50-calibre machine gun); his brain was exposed.
I went to the hospital to send an ambulance and explained he had been thrown from a car; they said they had already brought in 20 people from roadsides in the same way.
Since the night I saw that young man – maybe 23 years old – I have had no sleep or appetite; I cried so much.
Some of the martyrs’ names are as follows: Mokhtari, Aslani and Sedigheh Jalali, who was killed while on a motorcycle.
Here, every family has lost two or three loved ones.
The regime itself buries the bodies in Bagh-e Rezvan cemetery and does not hand them over; they give families only shoes and clothes, saying “we buried them ourselves”.
Ali added: “We will only win by fighting. These people are resilient – their children’s lives are in their hands. I stand with this revolution.
“People are waiting, but waiting has a cost and people must pour into the streets spontaneously.
“Mothers’ weapons were boiling water and stones.
“The repressive forces are not many – it’s better if each neighbourhood gathers separately. If everyone gathers in one spot, they’ll be crushed; when dispersed, repression is harder.
“What happened in these weeks is for history. The sound of gunfire is the melody of freedom.”
It comes as Donald Trump mulls whether to blitz targeted security forces and leaders to inspire brutalised protesters, according to sources.
Furious Trump had threatened to strike the rogue nation at the height of clashes between protesters and regime enforcers in a bid to stop the bloodshed.
Now the US leader has warned wicked Khamenei he must do two things to avoid military action – drop nuclear ambitions and stop killing protesters.
Forces in the Gulf have been built up by the US this week, with Trump discharging a thinly-veiled threat as he said: “We have a lot of very big, very powerful ships sailing to Iran right now, and it would be great if we didn’t have to use them.”
