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Some major updates from people in Iran and leaks:

While the official number of deaths is stated to be between 2,000-3,000, people estimate that the actual number of deaths is estimated to be at least 12,000. Videos show bodies all over the streets and body bags just lying on the ground.

Doctors are reporting being overwhelmed by the casualties.

The regime is trying to arrest injured protesters in the hospital.

The regime is charging money to return the bodies of murdered protesters to their families. (This practice is already disgusting, but imagine charging money at their rates in Iran's current economic status when people can barely afford bread.)

People are reporting that people from the regime's affiliates and proxy groups in the region have already been brought in to help with the suppression.

Messages being sent from Iran are saying that curfews are being enforced and that the regime's forces, including these proxies, are shooting indiscriminately at will.

Executions will really start tomorrow.

The regime is doing whatever it can to cut off people from the world. It's very difficult for people to contact family in Iran. There is still an internet blackout.

Despite this, there is still some footage coming out that people are still willing to risk it all and fight.

This is a humanitarian crisis. The people of Iran need your support more than ever. Amplify their voices, and don't let the regime get away with its crimes in darkness. Hold your governments and media to account to make sure that they support the people of Iran and not support the regime.

So many people said they voted for Trump, put a truly evil person in power, because he said he'd fix the economy, and a little voice in my head is going, "Isn't that what happened with fucking Hitler??"

Many things reported with confidence in the first hours and days will turn out not to be true

Whatever they say, the people who start wars are often thinking chiefly about domestic politics

The rationale given for a war will change over time, such that actual success or failure in achieving a named objective is less relevant than one might think

Wars are unpredictable