Iran, Time: «Over 30 thousand useless in 48 hours of repression» | EUROtoday

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Over the 2 days of January 8 and 9 alone, “over 30,000 people may have been killed on the streets of Iran”: Time journal writes, quoting two senior officers of the Iranian Ministry of Health who remained nameless. Sources reported that on these two days, a Thursday and a Friday, provides of physique baggage ran out and ambulances had been changed by eighteen-wheeled tractor-trailers. The estimate of 30,304 deaths, Time writes, doesn’t bear in mind the wounded admitted to navy hospitals who died subsequently, or the victims in areas the place no tolls had been supplied.

Meanwhile, the query is whether or not the Supreme Leader of Iran continues to be in place. “Ali Khamenei is hiding in an underground shelter in Tehran”, write a number of newspapers, nearly all quoting the Iran International web site, indicated as very near the Iranian opposition. This is to not say that that is the case. The Iranian consul in Mumbai rejects this concept: he claims that Khamenei has “security personnel to protect him” however that one shouldn’t “think that he is hidden in a bunker or a safe house”.

Tensions between the US and Iran stay very excessive. And the speculation that Ayatollah Khamenei was hiding in an armored bunker had emerged already final June, in one other second of nice stress: throughout the “12-day war” and the raids by Israeli and American forces on Iranian nuclear websites.

US President Donald Trump continues to threaten. But he does it along with his ordinary diplomatic twists and turns. On the one hand, it appears to ease the threats of an imminent assault in opposition to Iran, claiming that the regime would have stopped the executions of “over 830 people” after the protests that broke out in December and which the police are accused of getting repressed with essentially the most brutal violence (in keeping with the human rights NGO Hrana, at the very least 5,002 individuals died, together with 4,716 demonstrators).

But then again he thunders, and states that Washington is “keeping an eye on Iran” and that “a large fleet is heading in that direction.” “We’ll see what happens,” the White House resident declared just a few days in the past. According to 2 US officers interviewed by the New York Times, along with the Lincoln plane provider, the Pentagon ordered final week to ship three guided missile destroyers and a dozen F-15 fighters to the Middle East.