While Western activists, commentators and pundits are arguing whether we should use the terms ‘genocide’ or ‘crime against humanity’ for the ongoing massacre in Iran, the Islamic Regime has continued its slaughter of Iranians since January 8, 2026. The Regime has lost all pretense of legitimacy but is desperately clinging to any semblance of power, which makes it extremely deadly and dangerous to the Iranians trapped inside Iran.
The digital blackout that has been in effect in Iran since the beginning of the massacre has made the verification process of the numbers and names of dead bodies, injured, and arrested a lengthy process, but various human rights groups are working to record the deaths, injuries, imprisonments and all the atrocities committed against Iranians despite Regime’s propaganda, secrecy and old tactics. Based on the latest updates and verifications, the Regime has exterminated 43,000 to 60,000 Iranians for the crime of wanting freedom. Executions have been ongoing inside Iran, and more people have been sentenced to death for participating in the protests in the past couple of weeks, and some have already been executed. The Regime is executing prisoners in prisons and patients in hospital beds to terrorize Iranians into silence and remove any evidence of its own crimes. They are reportedly kidnapping and withholding bodies of dead protesters to use them if a war breaks out in the upcoming months, or requesting hefty ‘bullet fees’ to release the dead bodies to family members for burials.
The protests that started on December 28, 2025, in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar quickly spread nationwide, with more than 31 provinces and 111 cities joining the movement against the Regime. There are countless videos of gunfire against civilians protesting empty-handed, mountains of dead bodies in containers, trucks, on the sides of the roads, and constant rapid gunfire, indicating the Regime was prepared to take down any form of protest with deadly force, as they did. They shot at people with live ammunition, buried countless people in mass graves, burned Rasht Bazaar to the ground with people trapped inside, attacked hospitals, shot dead people who were left behind on the streets due to their injuries, and killed passersby alongside their little children and adolescents.
Hundreds of thousands of the injured protestors do not feel safe to go to hospitals to seek medical help, leading to life-threatening complications and, in many cases, death. There are countless reports of Regime forces shooting the injured in the hospital or kidnapping them. Images of dead bodies with headshots and tubes and catheters coming out of their bodies, indicating they were alive and seeking help before the headshot rendered them dead, corroborate the eyewitness reports. Doctors and nurses are being arrested and charged by the Regime for helping save the injured. Thousands of the arrested are now the prime target of the upcoming mass executions by the Regime.
To suppress the protests, the Islamic Regime has declared martial law in Iran. Streets have to be cleared out at a specific time every day. Iranians are not allowed to move freely. They are not allowed to contact their loved ones. The majority have been unable to afford the most basic needs in their lives, and the conditions are worsening for Iranians as most businesses have been out of operation for a month now.
After 3 years of tireless campaigning, petitioning, rallying, diligently working, and a minimum of 43,000 dead bodies on the streets of Iran, including many young children and toddlers, the EU finally designated the IRGC a terrorist organization, which would effectively disable the Regime’s arms in Europe and affect their operation globally. This was one of the very few pieces of good news regarding the uprising in Iran, as the promised help has not arrived yet and may never. The fact of the matter is that it is already too late for millions of families who are affected by the brutal violence of the Regime, mourning their dead or trying to find a way to save their loved ones if still alive, but in the hands of the Regime. Iranians are experiencing the most deadly massacre of their recent history at the hands of the Regime that has occupied Iran, while the world either argues semantics or completely ignores our people getting massacred.
I leave you with this: if we take the 43,000 dead people to be an accurate number, and try to honour and commemorate one person murdered by the Regime in the latest uprising in Iran every day, it will take us 117 years and 8 months to name them all. That will be the grief we carry in our hearts.
May we be free tomorrow.