一份令人震惊的新报告称，伊朗政权在全国范围内的反政府抗议活动中，持续无情地镇压示威者，甚至包括无辜平民，造成至少16500人死亡，超过33万人受伤。
《星期日泰晤士报》报道称，这份来自一线救治伤员的医生的新报告详细列出了令人震惊的死亡人数，远远超过活动人士组织核实的约3100人。
这些令人不安的数据来自八家主要医院和16个急诊科，显示死亡人数在16500至18000人之间，其中大多数受害者据信年龄在30岁以下。
伊朗裔德国眼科医生阿米尔·帕拉斯特教授代表德黑兰数十名医务人员向该媒体表示。“这是一种前所未有的残暴。”
他继续说，“（2022年）他们用的是橡皮子弹和霰弹枪，打瞎了人的眼睛。这次他们用的是军用级武器，我们看到的是头部、颈部和胸部的枪伤和弹片伤。”
“我跟几十位一线医生交谈过，他们都非常震惊，甚至流下了眼泪。这些都是经历过战争的外科医生。”
据报道，另有33万至36万人受伤，其中包括儿童和孕妇。
至少有1000人失明，德黑兰一家医院报告称，眼部受伤人数高达7000人。
“霰弹枪造成的眼部损伤太多了，我们不知道该先救治谁，”一位眼科医生说道，该媒体报道称。
12月28日爆发的抗议活动迅速蔓延至伊朗全部31个省份，最初是民众对经济崩溃的抗议，后来演变为自1979年伊斯兰革命以来对伊朗神权统治者最严重的威胁。
据人权组织和目击者称，伊朗政权以压倒性的武力镇压，部署了伊斯兰革命卫队及其民兵组织巴斯基民兵来平息骚乱。
随着屠杀事件的不断升级，当局于1月8日实施了近乎全面的互联网封锁，使伊朗陷入长达八天多的数字黑暗之中——此举被广泛认为是为了掩盖屠杀真相，并阻止相关画面传播到国外。
帕拉斯特告诉《泰晤士报》，“这是在数字黑暗的掩护下进行的种族灭绝。”
“他们说要杀光我们，直到这一切停止，而他们现在正在这么做。”
尽管媒体处于封锁状态，但仍有令人触目惊心的画面流出：停尸房内外，包括德黑兰的卡赫里扎克法医中心，堆满了尸体。绝望的家属在威胁和恐吓下寻找失踪的亲人。
一位逃离伊朗的人士告诉媒体，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队在一个夜晚“向所有人扫射”，并且“冷静地瞄准人们的头部”。
另一位人士回忆说：“屋顶上的狙击手朝人们的后脑勺开枪。”
媒体报道称，医生表示，许多受害者因严重缺血而死亡。
尽管多家医院的医务人员献血救人，但安全部队在某些情况下阻止了输血。
一位德黑兰外科医生说：“我们奋战数小时救人，却因为病人无法接受输血而失去他们。”
这场屠杀引发了与美国的冲突，此前有报道称伊朗计划进行大规模处决，特朗普总统随即下令五角大楼准备军事打击方案。
据报道，德黑兰方面暂停了绞刑，白宫随即迅速撤回了这一决定。
The Iranian regime has killed at least 16,500 people and injured over 330,000 more as they continue to ruthlessly target demonstrators – and even uninvolved civilians – in nationwide anti-government protests, a shocking new report claims.
The alarming death toll – far exceeding the roughly 3,100 verified by activist groups – was detailed in a new report from doctors on the ground treating victims amid the slaughter,the Sunday Times reported.
The disturbing figures, compiled from eight major hospitals and 16 emergency departments, revealed between 16,500 and 18,000 people have been killed, with most victims believed to be younger than 30.
“This is a whole new level of brutality,” Professor Amir Parasta, an Iranian-German eye surgeon, who spoke to the outlet on behalf of dozens of medical professionals in Tehran.
“[In 2022] they were using rubber bullets and pellet guns taking out eyes. This time they are using military-grade weapons and what we are seeing are gunshot and shrapnel wounds in the head, neck and chest,” he continued.
“I’ve spoken to dozens of doctors on the ground and they are really shocked and crying. These are surgeons who have seen war.”
Another 330,000 to 360,000 have been injured, including children and pregnant women, according to the report.
At least 1,000 people have lost an eye, with one hospital in Tehran reporting 7,000 eye injuries.
“There are so many shotgun-related eye injuries that we do not know whom to treat first,” said one ophthalmologist, the outlet reported.
The protests, which exploded on Dec. 28, spread rapidly across all 31 provinces, morphing from demonstrations over a collapsing economy into the most serious threatto Iran’s clerical rulers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The regime answered with overwhelming force, deploying the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Basij militia to crush the unrest, according to rights groups and witness accounts.
As the killings mounted, authorities imposed a near-total internet blackout on Jan. 8, plunging Iran into digital darkness for more than eight days — a move widely seen as an effort to hide the massacre and prevent images from spreading outside of the country.
“This is genocide under the cover of digital darkness,” Parasta told the Times.
“They said they would kill us until this stops and that’s what they are doing.”
Graphic footage that surfaced despite the shutdown showed rows of bodies piled inside and outside morgues, including at Tehran’s Kahrizak forensic center, as desperate families searched for missing relatives amid threats and intimidation.
One person who fled Iran told the outlet that the IRGC “sprayed everyone with gunfire” one night and were “calmly trying to aim for people’s heads.”
“Snipers on rooftops were shooting people in the back of the head,” another person recalled.
Doctors indicated that many victims have died because of a critical shortage of blood, the outlet reported.
Despite medical staff across multiple hospitals donating blood to save lives, security forces have blocked the transfusions in certain cases.
“We fight for hours to save lives, only to lose patients because they are not allowed to receive blood transfusions,” one Tehran surgeon said.
The carnage is causing conflict with the US, as President Trump ordered the Pentagon to prepare military strike options after reports that Iran wasplanning mass executions.
The White House abruptly pulled back when Tehran reportedly paused the hangings.