At least 648 protesters have been killed in Iran’s security forces’ crackdown on the protest movement rocking the Islamic Republic, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) association announced today, warning that the actual number of victims could be much higher.
“The international community has a duty to protect civilian demonstrators from the mass killings carried out by the Islamic Republic,” said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, commenting on the new death toll confirmed by the NGO.
The IHR said that “according to some estimates, more than 6,000 people may have been killed,” but warned that the nearly four-day internet blackout imposed by Iranian authorities “makes independent verification of these reports extremely difficult.”
