by Tobias Holcman
Both TIME Magazine and the BBC reported hundreds of protesters killed in Iran, with several hospitals in Tehran entering crisis mode due to an overflow of wounded patients.
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Hundreds of people were reportedly killed during the ongoing protests in Iran, according to Iranian doctors reporting from the country to TIME Magazine and the BBC.
The TIME report mentioned that a doctor from Tehran, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that Iranian hospitals have recorded some 217 protesters killed since the protests began two weeks ago.
According to the doctor, most of the victims were killed by live ammunition, and authorities are removing the deceased from the hospitals.
The BBC report assured that two other doctors reported critical situations in the Iranian capital, with hospitals going into crisis mode and not enough surgeons to cope with the influx of patients.
The first doctor, who contacted the BBC via the Starlink satellite internet service, said that Farabi Hospital, Tehran's main eye treatment center, was overwhelmed with wounded patients and had gone into crisis mode.
Another medic from a hospital in the south-west city of Shiraz told the BBC on Thursday that a large number of people were brought into the hospital, many of them with gunshot wounds, and that the hospital didn't have enough manpower to treat everyone.
The TIME report also mentioned that one of the deadliest events was recorded on Friday night, after at least 30 people were killed outside a northern Tehran police station when security forces sprayed machine gun fire at protesters.
Neither TIME nor the BBC confirmed that it was able to verify the reports, mainly due to the total internet blackout imposed in Iran by the Islamic Republic regime.
The Iranian army vowed in a Saturday statement to safeguard the country's national interests, strategic infrastructure, and public property, amid widespread anti-government protests, Reuters reported.
Reuters also reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Islamic Republic's main paramilitary force, warned that "safeguarding the revolution's archivements and the country's security is a red line."
Crown Prince Pahlavi calls for two more days of protests
After his last message urging protesters to gather on Thursday and Friday nights in several cities, the Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called for two more days of protests to pursue "the revolution's victory."
“I ask all of you today and tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday (January 10 and 11), this time, from 6 p.m., to come to the streets with flags, images, and national symbols and claim public spaces as your own,” the statement read.
“Our goal is no longer merely to come to the streets; the goal is to prepare for seizing the centers of cities and holding them.”
Pahlavi also urged US President Donald Trump to "be prepared to intervene to help the people of Iran" in light of the escalating protests and the internet blackout imposed by the Ayatollah's regime.
Shoshana Baker contributed to this report.
Tobias Holcman
Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-882883
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