The Corpses of Iran
At least 700 people massacred in one day of terror in Mashhad with an assist from Trump
So, now, a man whose brain is wired by twigs and old Epstein footage of underage girls, has decided he’ll try to inspire Iran into a nuclear agreement he couldn’t understand if you drew it out for him in crayon as nothing more than a mushroom cloud and the words, “No boom!”
Remember when he pretended to be ready to punish Iran for its assault on its own people?
Let’s look back a few weeks to early January, when Iranian protesters seized the moment by protesting in huge numbers across the country.
The streets of the capital were full of angry protesters. The streets of many of its large cities teemed with restive souls who raised their fists with the familiar chant of, not “Death to America,” but “Death to the Ayatollah” and “Death to the regime.”
Before the protests, young Iranians expressed an eagerness to reach out and touch America, even with a maniac in charge. They wanted what we have, and since they had their own maniacs in charge of their government, it was an even trade.
In the northeastern city of Mashhad, the second largest city in Iran with four million people, citizens of all generations marched against the regime. Much of the underlying hope nestled within these protests was based on admiration for the American people and way of life.
Grandmothers, mothers, fathers, children. All of them were emboldened by a lunatic American president who promised to help them.
When he announced that he would, the streets filled with courageous and hopeful anticipation.
On January 8th, the Iranian government responded by cutting off the internet. Then, this happened:
“For three nights, the streets of my home town turned into a killing field… The death was incomprehensible.”
This is a quote from New Yorker magazine’s Cora Engelbrecht, who talked to Iranians about Trump’s promises, and the massacres that followed:1
Under the cover of a nationwide internet blackout, security forces used lethal weapons to target demonstrators from rooftops, bridges, and building complexes.
Corpses were piled in parks and hospitals throughout Mashhad. Some of the injured were treated by protesters in alleyways, or by doctors operating from makeshift clinics in their homes.
One pediatrician, who was on duty at a children’s hospital on January 9th, told me that her staff transported more than a hundred and fifty corpses from their emergency ward to one of the city’s main cemeteries, Behesht-e Reza, that night. At least thirty of the dead were under the age of eighteen. “I saw an eight-year-old child who was shot in the chest,” she told me, over the phone. “This regime has no sense of humanity.”
The American regime, of course, secretly applauds such a response from the Iranian government, from any government, in fact, and surely wishes it could do the same.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has admitted that his government has slaughtered thousands in response to the protests.
The American regime has no interest in the welfare of Iranians on the street. As a result of Trump’s announcement of support on Truth Social, nearly a thousand died in one massacre in Mashad alone as police fired live ammo into thick crowds of people like you and me protesting their government, hoping for support from the world’s foremost sociopath.
More from reporter Engelbrecht:
They were emboldened further by President Donald Trump, who wrote on Truth Social that the United States would come to their “rescue” if protesters were killed. “People lost their fear,” M. told me. “They all left their homes to fight for a new future—and they were slaughtered for it.”
Said one protester, who is referred to only as M:
I will try my best to tell you what happened. My wife is scared every hour at night. She goes and checks the windows to make sure no one is there. She doesn’t want me to talk to you, but they have killed so many people, and I need to do this.
It all started because of crazy inflation. The craziest inflation in our life. First we saw online that people in the biggest bazaar in Tehran had started protesting. I saw Trump talking about Iran, and he said that if the government shoots the protesters the U.S. is going to shoot back. We believed him. Trump is a man of his word.
Don’t chastise M for saying Trump is a man of his word. He doesn’t know any better, and much of Trump’s insanity is lost in translation.
M continues:
Also, online, everyone was sharing a video post from Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, encouraging us to protest.
Ah, yes: The Shah of Iran, of “‘Iran, Iran,’ said the Shah,” fame, the king who left his country because he was chased out for his own human rights violations and left an heir, Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi the Younger’s most notable course of action so far during his short involvement in Iranian politics has been to cuddle with Trump and lead his people into an ambush and slaughter.
M continues:
Suddenly, everyone lost their fear. Before that day, no one had the courage to post Instagram Stories about the protests, because they knew that they would go to jail. But, this time, it was like everyone was supporting Pahlavi. They reposted his video, putting him in their stories. There was this feeling: “We’re gonna make it this time.” That was how we felt that day. Everyone was writing on social media—“just get to a street. Walking is not a crime.” Then many other people across the country started filling the streets in every big city.
They were further urged on by America’s own Ayatollah, a crazier version (somehow) of Iran’s, a man locked in a desperate battle with his own countrymen and women who are discovering that he was a major participant in the world’s first multi-billion dollar child sex trafficking ring.
A man who is desperate for an escape hatch.
He has found yet another one in Iran, but his actions now will only further harm Iran’s people. It’s all part of the new rule of America: “Everything Trump Touches Dies.”
According to a report by Alessandra Hay and Jacqueline Cole for The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak here on Substack:2
The death toll in Iran has been nearly impossible to verify amid internet shutdowns, misreporting, and the sheer scale of the violence. To this day, full internet access has not been restored.
Top Iranian health officials have cited figures as high as 30,000 while HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency) estimates about 22,000 – in the fog of the present moment, the numbers may be much higher. These bodies are flooding Iran’s morgues and cemeteries, and have become political symbols themselves.
The human toll is everywhere in Iran. If/when Trump attacks, these are the people who will pay the price:
Farzam and Arshia were both from Jannat Abad, an attractive residential neighborhood in Tehran. The friends didn’t suffer from the financial problems motivating Iran’s unrest, but that didn’t stop them from protesting.
Ultimately, Farzam was shot three times, once each in the heart, the head and the leg, amidst the crack down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the regime’s most powerful military-political institution.
On the day Farzam died, Ali was also protesting, but in a different city.
“[Regime forces] were shooting people with snipers, and assault rifles from close range,” Ali explained. “Right in front of our eyes, [IRGC forces] slit the carotid artery of one man’s neck and started dancing with the decapitated head. [They said] ‘Come on, you whores. Come on. Didn’t you want a revolution?’”
The Revolutionary Guard and their Basij counterparts in Iran combine to make a powerful force bolstered by as many as 20 million rabid paramilitary soldiers. Many of them are unpaid volunteers.
Think of what it would be like if the MAGA clowns currently cosplaying for ICE had 40 years to build up their forces on the streets of America.
That’s how long Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Basij have had to develop a police state infrastructure that, ironically, the Trump regime is trying to model itself after. They scoot around big cities on motorcycles, terrorizing their fellow citizens, especially women, demanding they follow Sharia law.
It’s a MAGA fantasy land.
The techniques used by the Iranian regime will sound familiar to anyone who has encountered or read about ICE. The intensity and scope of the violence is the difference so far.
Anyone who doesn’t believe the current regime drools at the stories out of Iran hasn’t been paying much attention during the last year.
This is from The Center for Human Rights in Iran:3
“What we are documenting in Iran’s smaller cities is a coordinated campaign of mass killing and enforced disappearance, deliberately carried out in places where the world cannot see,” said Esfandiar Aban, CHRI’s senior researcher. “Entire cities have been turned into killing fields and secret prisons. People are shot in the streets, taken from their homes at night, and then erased—no names, no records, no answers for their families,” Aban said.
“The pattern of mass killings, secret detentions, and mass trials without lawyers shows clear intent at the highest levels of the state,” Aban stressed. “These are crimes against humanity unfolding in real time.”
Iran has a massive paramilitary force it can call on to terrorize its people, and it does so.
When the Trump regime drops its bombs, someone on his staff will remind him of the protests, and the Mad King will tell you that he’s attacking for the sake of the protesters. Secretly, he’ll wish his legacy to be the establishment of a similar regime as Iran’s in the U.S.
We can look at many American presidential administrations and ask if they helped lose Iran, but the final answer will be that Trump lost it. Not only because he ruins everything, but because the Iranian people yearned for a closer relationship with the United States after all these years of rule by professional terrorists and assassins.
When the Trump regime starts killing Iranians, the Iranian people will rally to the cause of their proud nation, which is Persian in reality, history, and sensibilities. Most Iranians are aware that their government is not Persian, but rather an invading force of radical fundamentalists who took over their country and culture when Ayatollah Khomeini took control of a popular revolution against the Shah of Iran in 1979.
If Iran responds to the attack with an attack of its own, a war will break out that could potentially involve most of the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia, which the U.S. has been arming to the teeth for decades, can’t stand the Iranian government. Israel, of course, under Netanyahu, hates everybody, but has an especially testy relationship with the Iranians, who have promised to remove Israel from the map for decades. The Gulf oil kingdoms aren’t fans, either, although you need to catch a drunk emir on the right day on his yacht, “Epsteini Bikinis,” to admit it.
Blasting away at Iran has more consequences than picking on poor Venezuela. It has a formidable military, including a substantial collection of long-range missiles that can reach Israel and Europe:4
Its Navy isn’t particularly interesting, and on paper, it is no match for the U.S., unless you start thinking of the hundreds, and possibly thousands, of small speedboats it has accumulated during the last few decades for potential deployment in places like the Strait of Hormuz.
You need to get your oil tankers through that narrow strait to feed the world’s oil thirst. Iran’s ability to make this impossible has not yet been tested, but many military strategists believe that rather than try to take on the U.S. Navy with their few bigger naval gunships, a losing proposition, the Iranians would instead deploy swarms of speedboats armed with mobile missile launchers to attack oil tankers.
Eventually, of course, the oil tankers would just cease operation and wait for the war to end. Gas will get expensive, which Americans hate. The world economy would tank.
There are still a few people left in the defense establishment who game this stuff out, but not as many, and almost none who are courageous enough to tell Trump that it isn’t just his body odor that is overwhelmingly rancid.
At the end of the day, though, it’s all about Epstein, isn’t it?
It’s all about the next deflection.
Here it comes.
Thanks for reading!
Footnotes
Engelbrecht, Cora, and Matt Huynh. “A Massacre in Mashhad.” The New Yorker, January 22, 2026. https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/a-massacre-in-mashhad
The Center for Human Rights in Iran. “Unreported Atrocities: Eyewitnesses Detail Massive and Deadly State Crackdown against Protesters in Iran’s Provincial Cities.” Center for Human Rights in Iran, January 30, 2026. https://iranhumanrights.org/2026/01/unreported-atrocities-eyewitnesses-detail-massive-and-deadly-state-crackdown-against-protesters-in-irans-provincial-cities-2/?source=post_page-----0ee008dfe461---------------------------------------.
They haven't learned yet that trump can't be trusted.
He's capricious and impulsive. Also, severely mentally ill.
Your title says "700" — It's so far and away more than that. There was more than that in a single public square. Sources from inside the country now estimate it to be as high as 100,000 or more people killed since the slaughter began. At least 36,000 were killed in two days according to human rights groups.