Hidden Video Fuels Fears Amid Iran Protest Blackout (Full Transcript)
[00:00:03] Speaker 1: From behind the walls of the Iranian regime's censorship, a chilling video has emerged. Every movement of what may be a hidden camera reveals a terrifying picture of what's been unfolding on the ground. They butchered him, this mourner wails. The camera drifts past grief, not lingering long enough for us to be able to tell the stories of loss and pain of so many who gathered at the Qahrizak Forensic Medical Center outside Tehran, searching among rows and rows of body bags that line the courtyard for loved ones missing. State media had its own pictures and narrative from the Qahrizak Forensic Institute, reporting the majority of the bodies are those of, quote, ordinary citizens. They blame their deaths like the protest on foreign-backed terrorists carrying out what they say are indiscriminate killings. These pictures the regime decided to air, perhaps a warning to those who dare take to the streets. It's almost impossible for us to get real-time updates from Iran. The regime shut down communications across the country on Thursday, just as nationwide protests against the clerical establishment drew larger crowds to the streets of every province. It's a tactic out of its playbook on crushing dissent, cover it's used in the past to unleash bloody force. In this one location, an estimated 250 bodies, with hundreds more confirmed killed elsewhere, according to activists, the world now braces for what may come when Iran finally emerges from the dark.
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