Iran’s crackdown on protestors has produced a death toll that officials admit is far lower than the reality, with doctors and morgue staff estimating over 30,000 people killed in the weeks of unrest. A network of more than 80 medical professionals across 12 provinces has been compiling data from hospitals, morgues and graveyards, noting mass burials, bodies disappearing from forensic facilities and a surge of gunshot wounds to the chest, eyes and genitals. The Iranian government has confirmed just over 3,000 deaths, while the US‑based HRANA agency lists more than 6,000 and an additional 17,000 under investigation, suggesting a possible total of 22,000. Independent estimates from doctors abroad range up to 33,000. The crackdown has also seen bodies transported in ice‑cream vans and meat trucks, with morgue staff forced to turn away trucks full of corpses, and mass burials hastily carried out to conceal numbers. Dr Ahmadi and colleagues, who remain anonymous for safety, report that the brutality is unprecedented and that the scale of violence cannot be imagined. The story is unfolding amid a nationwide internet shutdown that limits information flow.

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