Iran's Hidden Genocide: 36,500 Dead in Massacre Legacy Media Won't Cover - Trump Sends Armada

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Good Tuesday morning, Patriots, and welcome back to O'Connor's Write Stand. I'm your host, John O'Connor, software programmer by day, conservative to seeker by night. Well, I do hope everyone has made it through Snowmageddon. And before we get started, if you're on podcast or rumble, do me a favor, jump over to YouTube search and type in O'Connor podcasts, one word and subscribe. That's where I'm building right now. And your subscription actually matters to getting this content out to more people. I appreciate you listening.

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So let's now get into today's discussion. A few weeks ago, I told you about protests erupting across Iran. Economic collapse, the Iranian aisle in freefall, protests are storming government buildings and burning them to the ground, crowds chanting, death to Khamenei. Then on January 19th, I came back with an update. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had admitted that thousands of Iranians were killed.

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But here's the sick part. He blamed it all on President Trump. Called Trump a criminal responsible for the deaths. The Human Rights Activist News Agency, that's H-R-A-N-A, confirmed 3,090 deaths. That's the number I reported to you. Patriots, I need to tell you something. Those numbers were vastly under-reported. And today, I'm going to show you why.

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New classified intelligence documents from Iran's own Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been leaked and reviewed by multiple international outlets, and the real death toll is absolutely staggering. We are not talking about 3,000 deaths. We are talking about 36,500 Iranian killed in less than three weeks. This is one of the deadliest massacres in modern history.

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Wounded protesters stuffed alive into body bags. Patients executed mid-surgery while still hooked up to medical equipment. Bodies piled in hospital corridors with oxygen tubes still attached. And the legacy media. They are not covering it. They'd rather spend hours talking about one shooting in Minneapolis than report on 36,500 deaths in Iran. Today, we are breaking down what actually happened behind Iran's digital blackout.

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why the initial numbers were so catastrophically wrong, what atrocities the Iranian regime committed, how Trump is responding with an armada heading to the Middle East, and why the legacy media refuses to touch the story. This is genocide hiding behind a digital blackout, and somebody needs to tell the truth. The Right Stand starts now.

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On January 2nd, I told you about protests that erupted on December 28th. Merchants in Tehran's Grand Bazaar went on strike over the catastrophic state of Iran's economy. The Iranian rile hit 1.45 million to the dollar, more than triple its collapse since 2022. Think about that. In less than three years, Iran's currency lost two-thirds of its value. Food inflation hit 72%. Iranian families couldn't afford to eat, and they were...

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The regime panicked. In Loredagan, protesters didn't just march. They stormed the governor's office and burned government buildings to the ground. They attacked regime institutions. Security forces responded with tear gas and live ammunition. At least six people were killed, crowds chanting, death to Kamenei and death to the dictator. The regime panicked.

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They ordered a nationwide shutdown in 21 of Iran's 31 provinces. The central bank chief resigned. President Muzoud admitted, if we don't solve the problem, we can't govern. That was January 2nd. Six confirmed deaths. Protests spreading. Regime in crisis mode. Then on January 19th, Khamenei gave a speech where he finally admitted thousands were killed, blamed it all on Trump.

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The guy who ordered the killings blamed the guy who supported the protesters. Khamenei called Trump a criminal responsible both for the casualties and the damage. At the time, HRANA confirmed 3,090 deaths. That's the number, again, that I reported. But I also told you something critical that day. Iran shut down the internet on January 8th. They cut off all communication to the outside world.

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No social media, no messaging apps, no way for protesters to share videos or coordinate. And I said, most of these people were killed after Iran shut down the internet. They literally turned off communication to the outside world so they could slaughter their own citizens in the dark, end quote. Patriots, that statement was more true than I even realized because we now know what happened behind that digital blackout and it's worse than anyone imagined.

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Last Sunday, January 25th, multiple major international news outlets published extensive investigations into what actually happened in Iran. Breitbart, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Iran International, the Media Line, The Guardian. They all dropped major reports on the same day, coordinated a release of information that had been under investigation for weeks. And here's what they found. Classified intelligence documents from Iran's own Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

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have been leaked and reviewed by these outlets. IRGC intelligence reports, international government tallies, documents submitted to Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and presidential office. The real death toll? At least 36,500 Iranians. Not 3,000, not 5,000, 36,500. Now let me explain why the initial numbers were so catastrophically wrong.

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because this is important for understanding what happened next. When human rights groups like HRANA report deaths, they can only count what they can verify. They need names, witness testimony, family confirmation, documentation, proof. But Iran shut down the internet on January 8th, right when the massive crackdown started. So human rights groups were working blind.

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They could only confirm deaths that they could verify through sources outside Iran or through the few people who managed to get messages out using satellite communications. Meanwhile, behind that digital blackout, the Iranian regime was conducting one of the deadliest crackdowns in modern history. Here's the timeline based on the leaked IRGC documents. January 8th and 9th, Khamenei gave the order to crush the protests by any means necessary.

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IRGC and Bajij forces deployed across more than 400 cities and towns. Live ammunition replaced crowd control tactics. According to the classified documents, senior commanders were briefed following Khamenei's January 9th address. Then orders were issued instructing forces to violently suppress the protests. And here's the chilling part. They used phrases like, victory through terror, and directed units to eradicate what the regime labeled sedition.

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That's not me saying that, Patriots. That's Iran's own intelligence documents using the phrase, victory through terror. They weren't trying to control protests. They were trying to exterminate protesters. January 11th, initial IRGC intelligence organization assessments submitted to the Supreme National Security Council at least 12,000 deaths. 12,000 in just three days. But then the numbers kept climbing as more reports came in from across the country.

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Documents later provided to Iranians Parliament listed 27,500 killed. Interior Ministry consolidations placed a total of above 30,000. IRGC intelligence reports dated January 22 and 24 cited more than 33,000 and over 36,500 deaths respectively. Time magazine citing two senior officials inside Iran's health ministry

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reported that hospital-based tallies recorded 30,304 deaths as of January 9th. 30,304! As of January 9th, just two days after the crackdown started, hospitals had already accounted for 30,000 bodies. Some estimates suggest as many as 30,000 people were killed in just the first 48 hours, January 8th and 9th. Experts consulted by Time Magazine struggled to find historical parallels.

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The only comparable event that they could identify was the Baban Yar Massacre in September 1941, when Nazi forces executed 33,000 Jews by gunfire outside Kyiv over two days. Let that sink in, patriots. The Iranian regime just conducted a massacre on the scale of a Nazi war crime, and you probably didn't even hear about it, because the legacy media isn't covering it. Now...

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Let me tell you what actually happened during those two and a half weeks, and I'm warning you, this is brutal. This is evil on a level that's hard to comprehend. The media line obtained testimony from the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center about wounded protesters being stuffed alive into body bags. Stuffed alive into body bags. The outlet documented the case of a young protester who survived by pretending to be dead inside a body bag.

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This person could hear gunshots as security forces walked through the morgue, executing wounded civilians who moved or moaned inside the bags. This survivor remained motionless for three days. Three days inside a body bag, surrounded by the dead and dying, listening to the executions. They only escaped when families stormed the facility, searching for loved ones. A forensic medicine specialist in Tehran told the media line that wounded protesters

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were piled on top of one another in hospital corridors, transferred alive to morgues, and placed in body bags. The brutality by the IRGC was so severe that many healthcare workers suffered psychological shock. Medical staff reported seeing bodies with oxygen tubes, ECG leads, and catheters still attached. Think about what that means, Patriots. These people were being treated in hospitals.

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Doctors and nurses were actively working to save their lives. They had medical equipment hooked up to them. They were alive. And IRGC forces came in, ripped them out of treatment, and either left them to die in body bags or executed them outright. The media line also obtained a message from a nurse who said patients were being systematically executed. Wounded individuals were taken directly from operating rooms mid-surgery and shot at close range.

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That testimony was sent shortly before the nurse herself was killed. She sent out evidence of what was happening, and they murdered her for it. Iranian International reported evidence of systematic extrajudicial executions. They obtained morgue images showing victims shot in the head while receiving medical treatment. Some with breathing tubes, IV lines, and cardiac monitors still attached. Medical professionals who reviewed the images said these were deliberate finishing shots.

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not combat injuries, not accidents, executions. Doctors and nurses told the outlet that security forces entered hospitals, removed wounded protesters mid-treatment, and in some cases executed patients on-site or inside ambulances as they were being transported. The New York Times verified hundreds of videos and interviewed witnesses, medical workers, and families under threat of reprisal. Their investigation showed security forces opening sustained fire from rooftops

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and police stations. They deployed motorcycle units to pursue fleeing crowds through the streets. They shot demonstrators, often from behind as they were running away, across multiple neighborhoods in Tehran and at least 19 cities nationwide. Hospitals were overwhelmed with gunshot victims, emergency rooms operating under battlefield conditions, Tehran's forensic center overflowing with bodies, families forced to identify loved ones from numbered photographs displayed on screens.

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Verified footage showed body bags lining hospital entrances, wounded protesters bleeding out in the streets, rows of corpses laid out in a morgue courtyard. The New York Times documented cases where people were shot just for simply being present in the streets, not even protesting, not rioting, just walking, just being there. Time Magazine reported that the massacre overwhelmed morgues across the country, exhausted body bag supplies, and forced authorities to use tractored trailers

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to transport the dead. Think about that. So many bodies that they needed trucks to haul them away. An Iranian surgeon gave a first-person account to The Guardian that I want you to hear. I have worked in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmares I saw in Iran's hospitals when the state started shooting protesters. Pools of blood, hundreds of gunshots, no pause, no limits. quote. Pools of blood.

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Hundreds of gunshots, no pause, no limits. This wasn't crowd control, patriots. This wasn't even a crackdown. This was genocide. And it happened behind a digital blackout so the world wouldn't see. Ask yourself this question. If the Iranian regime had nothing to hide, why did they shut down the internet? Why cut off all communication? Because they knew what they were about to do. They knew the world would condemn them.

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So they pulled the plug and massacred their own people in the dark. Now, let's talk about Trump's response. First, he publicly called for new leadership in Iran. Called Khamenei a sick man, guilty of violence at levels never before seen. That's a sitting US president calling for regime change on the record. Second, Khamenei is terrified. He's fled to a fortified underground bunker in Tehran. His son, Mazoud, is now running day-to-day operations.

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The supreme leader is in hiding. Third, Trump announced a big flotilla, an armada, heading to the Middle East. We have a lot of ships going in that direction just in case. Maybe we won't have to use it. Well, that's a warning. Fourth, Treasury Secretary Besant imposed new sanctions on Iran's oil export shadow fleet Friday. Besant said the regime is engaged in a ritual of economic self-immolation.

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Trump is squeezing them economically while positioning military assets. And fifth, here's how desperate Iran is. They put up a billboard in Tehran showing destroyed US aircrafts forming an American flag. The slogan, if you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind. That's not strength, patriots, that's fear. They know Trump isn't bluffing. They know their armada is real. They know their economy is collapsing. They know their people want them dead.

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So why isn't the legacy media covering this? 36,500 people killed in three weeks. Atrocities comparable to Nazi war crimes, and they are barely mentioning it. You know what they are covering? Minneapolis, one shooting, wall-to-wall coverage. Let me tell you exactly why. First, it makes Trump look right. He pulled out of the Iran deal, imposed maximum pressure sanctions, ordered strikes on Iranian facilities.

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The legacy media called him reckless, but his strategy worked. Iran's economy collapsed, their military got decimated, their proxies destroyed. The Iranian people are rising up. If they cover this, they admit Trump's foreign policy was successful. Second, it proves Iran is evil. For years, the legacy media portrayed Iran as misunderstood. They can't maintain that narrative when protesters are stuffed alive in body bags.

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Third, it undermines their Trump narrative. They call him a dictator daily. But here's actual authoritarianism. 36,000 murdered. And Trump is opposing it, supporting the protesters, threatening military action. If they cover this honestly, people might ask, if Trump's the authoritarian, why is he fighting authoritarians? Fourth, it's complicated. The legacy media doesn't do nuance. They do sound bites.

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This story requires explaining economic collapse, protest movements, IRGC structure, Trump's strategy, leaked documents. That's work. It's easier to cover Minneapolis. One shooting, clear narrative fits in a tweet. And fifth, the real reason, it doesn't help Democrats. Midterms are nine months away. Democrats need negative Trump stories. 36,000 dead Iranians makes Trump look strong on foreign policy.

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when they are trying to paint him as incompetent. They will spend hours on Minneapolis, but 36,000 dead Iranians? Crickets. Because it doesn't fit the narrative. The Iranian regime is collapsing. Not eventually. Right now. Khamenei is hiding in a bunker. His son is running operations. Economy is in freefall. 36,000 dead and protests haven't stopped. Iranian protesters are begging Trump for help.

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Videos show signs in English, Trump, a symbol of peace, don't let them kill us. People whose government calls America the Great Satan are asking the American president to save them. According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, protesters have effectively taken over two cities. Security forces retreated from multiple areas. This is the beginning of the end. Will Trump pull the trigger on military action? I don't know.

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But Khamenei is hiding in a bunker for a reason. He knows what's coming. Either the Iranian people will overthrow him, or Trump will strike, or the regime will collapse under its own weight. One way or another, the regime's days are numbered. And when it falls, and it will fall, remember who supported the protesters and who ignored them. Trump stood with the Iranian people. The legacy media ignored their suffering. Patriots

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The Iranian regime just conducted one of the deadliest massacres in modern history. 36,500 people killed in less than three weeks. Protests are stuffed alive in body bags. Patients executed mid-surgery. The legacy media isn't covering it. They'd rather talk about Minneapolis, because covering Iran means admitting Trump was right. His maximum pressure strategy worked. Iran's economy collapsed. Their proxies are decimated. The Iranian people are finishing what Trump started.

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Kamini is hiding in a bunker. Trump has an armada in position. The regime is collapsing. This is exactly what American foreign policy should look like. Support freedom, punish evil, stand with people fighting tyranny. But you won't hear about it on CNN, so we have to tell the story. We have to share the truth. 36,500 dead and the world needs to know. So,

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