Massacre report from the streets of Iran

By Milo Haskour —

Abolfazl Yaghmouri, 17, liked hip hop, which is illegal in Iran. He recorded secretly in his closet. During the uprising, he went out to the streets to contribute his part to the overthrow of the hated Islamist Regime.

For that, they killed him on Jan. 8, the night the regime began shooting unarmed protesters.

“They shot him in the heart and he was on the ground bleeding for 40 minutes,” said his aunt Gita Yaghmouri. “They didn’t allow the crowd to come and help him.”

After searching for hours of his body, the family went to hospitals and the police station. Finally the brother saw a vehicle from the morgue and asked about the bodies. Of the three, one was still unidentified, workers said.

“He opened the body bag and it was the face of his brother,” Gita says.

Since cracking down on its own citizens, the Iranian authorities — using outside militia because its own internal security apparatus is refusing to cooperated — have intensified the slaughter, despite warnings from Trump that killing would be red line triggering a U.S. intervention. An estimated 30,000 have died.

Yet the Iranians remain undeterred. Just recently, the increasingly desperate regime brought out military grade machine guns and began mowing down protester. The people went home, but not to give as they did in 2009, in 2011, in 2017, in 2019 and in 2022.

They went home to wait for the right moment to return to the streets, their anger only worsened

“This has been the greatest massacre in modern history of Iran,” says Iranian immigrant Armin Navabi, of the Atheist Republic podcast. “They are so angry based on the amount of blood that has been spilled that they don’t care. They don’t care if they die anymore. Even if we don’t receive any help, we the Iranian people are going to get rid of the Islamic Republic.

“Just because it dies down a little, doesn’t mean the motivation has gone away,” adds Armin. “What I am hearing is they are waiting for another spark to go back into the streets, actually more than before. I’m hearing this from every single person. The price they’ve paid so far is too much for this to not work out.”

• A mother searching through body bags, filming herself, began cursing the holies figures of Shia Islam.
• Some 25 kids in a park began chanting anti-regime chants; the militia pulled up and shot every single one.
• Elders stood in front to take the first bullets, saying, “You guys are young and you should build the country, so let us be at the front so that we get shot first.”
• A wife told her husband to run if she died so their child would not be an orphan.
• The daughter of an IRGC official cried hysterically over the crimes of her father: “Where should I go,” she said per translation on Manoto T.V. in London. “My friends were raped. If I could, I would be the first person to kill my father.”
• People bring water bottles in backpacks to the streets and congratulate each other.

The regime’s propaganda complains of foreign intervention (U.S. and Israel), but the regime has called in foreign proxy fighters to do the dirty work: Hashd al-Shaabi from Iraq, Fatemiyoun from Afghanistan and
Zainabiyoun from Pakistan.

“The feeling is, it’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees,” says British-Iranian actor and comedian Omid Djalili.

“Everybody knows somebody who has died, which is insane,” says Armin. “And they can’t wait to go back into the streets?”

Sources: Sky News Australia, the UK Telegraph, JNS, others.