A generally accepted “low estimate” of the number of innocent Iranians mowed down in the streets last week is 15,000 dead and tens of thousands more wounded and/or imprisoned. The regime has not yet hung anyone from a crane, but it’s early.
In the worst of all metrics — the murder of civilians as a percentage of population — we have three prior events against which to measure the atrocity committed by the Iranian regime: the Tiananmen Square massacre carried out by the Chinese Communist Party in 1989, al Qaeda’s attack on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and the invasion of Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2021, which saw 1,200 lives claimed, thousands wounded, and hundreds taken into captivity.
The death toll
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