'It's horrifying': Videos of body bags and machine guns give rare glimpse of Iran's bloody crackdown
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Via: krishna • 10 months ago • 29 commentsBy: By Babak Dehghanpisheh, Matthew Mulligan, Marin Scott and Colin Sheeley
Photo credit: 'It's horrifying': Videos of body bags and machine guns give rare glimpse of Iran's bloody crackdown (Yahoo News)
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One man is covered with a bloody white shroud inside a body bag. Another lies nearby, his body sprawled on the tiled floor with arms raised and blood streaked across the face.
Row upon row of other bodies surround them.
“It’s horrifying. It’s the apocalypse,” says the man filming the scene in the warehouse of a forensics center near Tehran. “There are lots of bodies.”
Iran has been largely shut off from the rest of the world for days, since its regime cut the internet and severely restricted phone access after cities across the country erupted in anger sparked by the crash of the currency against the U.S. dollar and soaring inflation. Videos that have trickled out and circulated online offer a window into the resulting crackdown in the Islamic Republic and the methods employed by security forces to quell the unrest.
The images, circulated on social media this week and geolocated by NBC News, show more than 200 bodies piled in the makeshift morgue outside the capital, machine guns fired at crowds, and clashes in cities from Urmia in the northwest to Isfahan in the heart of the country.
At least 2,500 people have been killed, according to the the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. Authorities have not given an official death toll.
A man in a black T-shirt and black pants wearing gloves holds the body on its side and positions the bloody head for the medical official to get a better glimpse at the wound.
“Was he hit in the head?” the person filming asks. Another man nearby replies: “Yes.”
The same woman, whom one man calls doctor, walks up to the back of an ambulance and asks why a body is still in the vehicle.
“Because there was no more space left on the ground,” a man replies, his voice cracking. “It’s a woman, it’s my sister.”
Nearby, a man in a blue medical smock and orange gloves examines the head of a man’s body that is stripped down to white underwear and pulled out of a black covering. “They hit him from behind,” a man says, as another person nearby can be heard sobbing.
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One man is covered with a bloody white shroud inside a body bag. Another lies nearby, his body sprawled on the tiled floor with arms raised and blood streaked across the face.
Row upon row of other bodies surround them.
“It’s horrifying. It’s the apocalypse,” says the man filming the scene in the warehouse of a forensics center near Tehran. “There are lots of bodies.”
As I said to you before, when you do not post the whole article and just provide a link to a source I cannot open it makes it impossible for me to reply intelligently. If you use the "Fetch Ariticle" process it does not waste your time or effort in posting the whole artilcle.
I never used it, But from what you said it sounds like a good idea, I will try to use it next time I seed something.
Two videos from Tehran, which circulated online Monday, show the tactics employed by security forces.
In one, a man wearing a helmet with a visor can be seen firing a machine gun at a crowd of people about 30 yards away across a square. The muzzle of the machine gun flares in the night as the man sprays automatic fire.
I assume that is a quotation from the original source article. Obviously the story being told by the Iran administration differs from the reality.
A man in a black T-shirt and black pants wearing gloves holds the body on its side and positions the bloody head for the medical official to get a better glimpse at the wound.
“Was he hit in the head?” the person filming asks. Another man nearby replies: “Yes.”
The same woman, whom one man calls doctor, walks up to the back of an ambulance and asks why a body is still in the vehicle.
“Because there was no more space left on the ground,” a man replies, his voice cracking. “It’s a woman, it’s my sister.”
Yes, thank you for posting that twice, once in the part of the article I was able to read, the olther as your comment underlining the horrow of the situation.
You're welcome!
(Although apparently, based on the lack of response to these seeds about Iran, most people here care very little for the plight of the Iranian people
)
Right now, IMO, the American people have a lot closer and more important to themselves to care about - thanks to the majority of their voters.
I agree.
However given the amount of time many users here spend online, I was hoping that while they were continuing to put a lot of time and effort into discussing the current situation in the U.S. some would at least become aware of what's going on in Iran.
The Iranian people are having a tough time these days because of the sanctions, the inflation, and the reduced value of the rial. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be enough to change their regime. Let's not forget the woman who was arrested and murdered because she didn't wear a hijab and the protests then. Lets not forget the homosexuals who were hung from cranes. They are kept under control by the Revolutionary Guard.
and Fox let's the ridiculous Iranian foreign minister claim that the police are shooting back at terrorists who shot at them......
Thats why most of the dead were all old men and women, all unarmed. Most shot in the back or hit in the head from behind.
Liars.
The Ayatollahs blame Israel for the woes of Iran, that a Mossad spy walks beside every Iranian protestor and the protests were caused by Israel. After all, the Iranian people have no reason whatsoever to complain about the magnificent governance being provided to them.
Remember that it is Iran's goal to eliminate the LIttle Satan (Israel) and then the Big Satan (the USA).
There were also some very young protestors-- often shot in the back of the head as well.
Trump said "Help is on the way." Fucking big mouth liar.
Yes-- he did say that.
(But of course he did nothing to help).
And perhaps strangely (?), with one of two exceptions, there's very little interest here re: seeds re: Iran.
As I said above, Americans have damn good reason to be more concerned about what their government is doing to them than what foreign governments are doing to their citizens.
I have seen numbers of murdered protesters as high as 6000, the Ayatollahs already admit to thousands, which they say were caused by the USA. Gee, and I thought Trump, who meddles in other nations' affairs, and who promised help to the protesters, but didn't help, made the Ayatollahs words true. He played the Pied Piper. He led them down the garden path, and over the cliff. He abandoned them so IMO HE is responsible for the deaths of thousands or good Iranian people.
So far, IIRC, he has claimed he really deserves the Peace Prize because . . .TADA!
. . .he has made peace in something like 8 conflicts!
Perhaps, to better his chances for The Peace Prize, he should get his "War Department" involved?
HIs threats and bullying may be effective elsewhere, but it obviously had no effect on the Nobel Committee, and if the Nobel Commettee were resentful of his bullying he can wave goodbye to EVER getting the Nobel Preace Prize.
One would think based on his words he doesn't gaf....
Yes, that;s true - his threats concerning Greenland indicate that getting a Nobel Peace Prize is pretty obviously not his wish.
Maybe he has some other motive?
Or perhaps he knows that he already has getting another Peace Prize is "in the bag" (to coin a phrase)?
Or as Yogi Berra was thought to have said:
Phrases aren't coined, they are minted!!!
Yes.
And this bears repeating: This is the man who renamed the United States Department of Defense. Now calling it The Department of War!
What? He didn't call it the "Trump Department of War"?
OMG!
Well, even a great man like President Trump occasionally slips up-- but I'm sure he will soon explain his clever tactics!