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From Anarchist Front (telegram)
January 13, 2026

Today is the seventeenth day of the revolutionary protests by the people in Iran and the sixth day of a total nationwide internet blackout.

According to an unimaginable report on the number of people killed in the war of the Islamic regime, fully armed, against unarmed citizens, we received the following messages. Due to the internet shutdown, this news cannot be independently verified from multiple sources.

First Message:

* Tehran has at least 5,000 people killed. Just among my colleagues, 5 have died, and among the rest of my colleagues’ friends and families, at least one person has been killed.
* Sarcheshmeh neighborhood had 200 killed on Thursday night.
* Saadat Abad: around 150 killed.
* Our own neighborhood: 10 killed on Thursday night, 50 on Friday night.
* Falah neighborhood: more than 100 killed last night.

One close relative of a colleague works in the body reception section of Behesht Zahra Cemetery. In front of me, he said that they have been bringing bodies in refrigerated trucks since Thursday. So many trucks have arrived that they stopped receiving bodies yesterday. Almost all were shot from the chest up, most of them young, unfortunately.

One colleague said that one of his relatives, who happened to own a shop in our neighborhood, was closing his store at 7 p.m. on Thursday when he was shot from behind and killed. His family checked the store’s surveillance footage and saw a black Hilux, shot from inside the cabin, speeding away.

Another colleague who was killed: their family went to the hospital to collect the body, but they were told because he had been shot, the body could not be released.

A nurse told the family that on the first night, more than 300 people were brought to their hospital, but some plainclothes agents locked the operating room, saying no one had the right to treat or assist the injured. They piled all the wounded in one room, mixing the living and the dead, saying, “Whoever dies, dies; whoever survives, survive.” The nurse had retired last month.

The regime even charges money to release the bodies of those killed in the protests.

Friend, the situation here is worse than you can imagine.

Second Message:

According to reports from comrades of the Anarchist Front, after the internet was cut, an extremely large crowd poured into the streets—on a scale incomparable to any previous demonstrations. This crowd was met with widespread repression using live ammunition.

As a result, hundreds of people collapsed simultaneously in eastern Tehran, struck by gunfire.

The situation in Tehran’s hospitals on Saturday was such that at least 120 people were officially declared dead at Imam Hossein Hospital alone, and their bodies were transferred to Kahrizak.

We currently have almost no secure means of communication inside the country. Nearly all communication tools are under surveillance, interception, and repression.

Recently, one of the Anarchist Front comrades was shot with non-military ammunition, injured, and also beaten with rifle butts. They remain wounded but their condition has now somewhat improved.

The number of injured is extremely high, yet many require money for surgical operations and medical treatment. Inside the country, we are trying to raise funds to cover these additional medical costs.

Personally, among those attacked, blinded, or injured, I witnessed children between the ages of 9 and 12. However, mainstream media—claiming that people should not be frightened and that reports cannot be verified—continue to publish very limited information about the number of those killed, arrested, and wounded.

Therefore, we ask you to help spread this information.

Inside Iran, we are forced to use highly unsafe tools for documentation and communication, which means we may face fabricated cases and severe repression in the future.

Regarding the current situation: in Tehran, large daytime gatherings are not visible, and protests are mainly limited to nighttime chanting.

In other cities—especially smaller towns—there appears to still be a degree of sustained resistance.

In Tehran, repression forces are storming homes in protest-heavy neighborhoods, breaking down doors under the pretext of confiscating satellite dishes and conducting searches. This is the situation we are currently living under.

Please note that the number of detainees is extremely high, and one associated individual—though not directly one of our comrades—has disappeared.

Families are being referred to Preventive Police offices, and vast numbers of people are desperately searching for their loved ones.

Additionally, one friend whose daughter was killed during these protests had her body transferred to Kahrizak. To retrieve her body, authorities demanded 150 million tomans and forced the family to sign a pledge not to give interviews or speak publicly. We have verified this information.

I want to emphasize that the majority of those blinded, those whose jaws and bones were broken, and those killed—according to testimony from one of Imam Hossein Hospital’s supervisors—are between 12 and 27 years old.

This is not only a crime against humanity, but a crime against children.

I am present in the demonstrations, representing our voices and helping others.

Inside Iran, people are in deep mourning, grief-stricken, and furious.

Everyone has witnessed scenes of extreme bloodshed.

Third Message:

[She left Iran, Sunday, January 11, 2026. She says:]

This video is for those of you outside Iran.

I returned from Iran yesterday, and what I saw inside the country was unbelievable. Compared to everything we have seen since 2009, this was completely different. This is a revolutionary uprising.

Men and women, young and old, children and the elderly, with hijab and without hijab — everyone, absolutely everyone, poured into the streets together. And I can’t even begin to tell you about their courage.

Until that day, I thought I was a brave person. But when I entered that crowd and saw elderly people and people much younger than me, I realized I was not as brave as them. Only then did I truly understand what it means when they say Iran is the land of the brave.

I saw lion-hearted women and lion-hearted men — people who had placed their lives in the palms of their hands. Nothing mattered to them anymore. They were fighting only for Iran and for all of us.

Even those who couldn’t come out of their homes — the sick, those unable to walk — everywhere you passed, in every alley, in every house, people were chanting. They were chanting from rooftops.

My own sister came out despite having a broken leg, just because we are all Iranian and we all want Iran to be free, so we can return and live our lives peacefully in our country.

The way people stood side by side was incredible. They are moving forward with bare hands, carrying only their lives in their hands, helping one another everywhere.

On Vakilabad Boulevard, people had left their doors open to shelter others. Everywhere — rooftops, alleys, homes — chants could be heard from all directions. Everyone stood together.

I was so happy that I witnessed those moments with my own eyes, that I was there in the streets, moving forward with the people. It felt as if forty years of suppressed pain were being released from inside me, as if everything that had been trapped in my body for a lifetime was finally coming out.

I couldn’t believe I was seeing all of this with my own eyes.

It was a strange feeling — like Chaharshanbe Suri before the New Year — a kind of joy that is hard to describe. It’s both terrifying and reassuring at the same time. You are certain — certain that this time it will happen, that this time is different from everything before.

The people inside Iran are just as hopeful in their hearts. Please send them positive energy. Please don’t create stress or fear for them. Our people are very strong.

We are Iranian. We are from the land of the brave. We are very, very strong — and I am certain that this time, it will succeed.

Because for people who are in the streets, everything is possible.

And about what you are saying — that the number of those killed is 2,000 — I am absolutely certain the number is much, much higher. In Park-e Laleh Square and Haft-e Tir Square alone, what I saw was people being shot with pellet guns and live ammunition.

We were right in the middle of a battlefield. Everything was on fire. The city had no lights — only smoke and flames everywhere. People were being shot. I saw people get hit and fall to the ground. Everyone was trying desperately to help one another.

I don’t know how to explain it to you, but it was truly horrific.

But when they are fighting like this, when they are resisting like this, the smallest thing you can do for them is to be their voice.

In any way you can — even if your page has only one hundred followers — please make it public.

Please be the voice of our people.

Please be the voice of the people of Iran.

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