More than 12,000 killed in Iran - CBS US broadcaster CBS now is also reporting a death toll of at least 12,000 people in Iran, potentially as high as 20,000.
CBS says it’s received that number from two sources within Iran through phone calls. Those sources have cited the number being given by activist groups on the ground tallying medical records from hospitals.
and surprise, it's ZBS doing the "reporting".The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: And all of a sudden casualty figures are unquestionable: It seems they didn't get it from Reuter
UN rights office says hundreds killed in Iran protests
GENEVA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that he was "horrified" by mounting violence by Iran's security forces against peaceful protesters, with the U.N. citing its own sources as saying that hundreds have been killed so far.
The Islamic Republic's clerical authorities are facing the biggest demonstrations since 2022 and on Sunday a rights group said that unrest has killed more than 500 people. An Iranian official indicated on Tuesday it was higher, at around 2,000.
An Iranian official, riight .. I doubt they got near to one (eyes roll)
The 12,000 figure comes from Mossad outfit "Iran International", which used to be run by the Saudis
- to do propaganda on Iran. The CIA and Mossad are having a contest as to who can come up with the highest number, and the NYT, BBC and Owen Jones are all salivating to launder it -- https://nitter.net/zei_squirrel/status/2011118523355988004 13 Jan 2026 · 4:49 PM UTC
Thread contains the execrable Owen Jones grifting as per.
"CBS says it’s received that number from two sources within Iran through phone calls" gives it away
a little bit. A pathetic attempt at attribution or , more likely given it's the zionist mouthpiece ZBS, trying to cover up the fact they got it from a suspect regime change faction.
Also, now they are concerned about snipers targeting people although these must be the best snipers ever if they are consistently hitting people in the eye....
They didn't give a shit about the apartheid state shooting hundreds and hundreds of children in the head but this, all of a sudden is a big deal. The double standards have never been more clearly shown.
[i]An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital, as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.
Three doctors, in messages forwarded to the Guardian on Monday, described overwhelmed hospitals and emergency wings overflowing with protesters who had been shot. Medical staff said the gunshot wounds were mostly concentrated on protesters’ eyes and heads – a tactic that rights groups said authorities used against demonstrators in the country’s 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Barak Ravid, former IDF intelligence officer who writes for Axios, had this to say about Iran Int'l
with their messages about "not just online but we're on the ground with you" and so on (can't find a link but the various admissions have been covered in lots of places and I'm sure you've seen them). The apartheid state are basically admitting they are in there stirring up the disorder and have actually admitted arming the protestors. Quite odd.
Lee Camp and Keaton from Due Dissidence were having a brief discussion about this: the propaganda seems to be sloppier and more obvious and done with much less care but somehow is more effective than ever. Social media breaking everyone's brains is a potential reason.
It does seem to have calmed down a little this morning with more measured noises coming from the orange twat, and Iran saying there will be no executions. I doubt this is going to deter Mileikowsky from pushing donny scumbag and the US into attacking them in the long-term though. The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
on January 13, 2026, 5:27 pm