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>>mhb+(OP)
The source (Iran International) is backed by Saudi money and has a bias to dunk on Iran.

That said, I'm sure the death count numbers from the Rasht Massacre are staggeringly higher than the initial tallies of 2-5k.

>>camina+j6
There are other sources, like this: https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-...

>>alexmo+z8
Which also refer to unnamed sources and "U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency"(read CIA)

>>vogre+ie4
Why lie about this when the first paragraph is explicit about its source?

> As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME

>>squidb+zC4
The US paid for similar information from Iraq about WMDs just before it kicked off the invasion.

Meanwhile, the US is rearranging its forces in the middle east. What a coincidence.