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muriel_volestrangler

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4. 'There wasn't even time for CPR': Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 06:48 AM
Yesterday
Staff at several hospitals in Iran have told the BBC their facilities are overwhelmed with dead or injured patients, as major anti-government protests continue.
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They have since spread to more than 100 cities and towns across all of Iran's provinces. Hundreds of protesters are believed to have been killed or injured, and many more detained. BBC Persian has confirmed the identities of 26, including six children.
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BBC Persian has verified that 70 bodies were brought to Poursina Hospital in Rasht city on Friday night. The morgue there was at full capacity, so the bodies were taken away. The authorities asked the relatives of the dead for 7 billion rials (£5,222; $7,000) to release them for burial, a hospital source said.
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"[In a Tehran hospital] Around 38 people died. Many as soon as they reached the emergency beds... direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well. Many of them didn't even make it to the hospital.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9rengvnp9o

Demanding $7,000 from relatives of the dead is quite a Trumpian thing to do.

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