Something important has changed in Iran. From the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to the lowest street vendor, a symbolic Rubicon has been crossed, and everyone knows it.
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The bloody massacres of January 9-10 may have killed up to 36,000 people, according to the anti-regime site Iranian International. The UN claims more than 20,000 dead.
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Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is sticking with its original number of 3,117 dead, many of them regime security personnel.
The important thing is not an exact body count, although for potential war crimes trials and for the benefit of history, an exact accounting of the dead will be necessary. What’s important is the change the massacres have wrought among the Iranian population, especially the Middle Class.
“People are extremely angry,”
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