Witness Accounts Detail Iran’s Deadly Protest Crackdown (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: It was 8 p.m. on Thursday, January the 8th. Just as these incredible images were emerging from protests in Tehran and other cities, Iran went dark. Under the cover of the digital darkness it imposed, the regime launched one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of the Islamic Republic. This protester spoke to us from an undisclosed location after leaving Iran. Qirash is not his real name, but for his safety, we're not identifying him. He spent hours in Iran's largest cemetery searching for the body of Nassim, a family friend who was shot in the neck. I saw two layers of dead bodies. In my eyes, I can say minimum 1,500 up to 2,000 just in one warehouse and small bags. I realized that, oh my God, these small bags, they're children's, many of them. His harrowing account is consistent with other testimony and verified visual evidence collected by CNN and human rights organizations from various reported protest sites across the country, pointing to a widespread coordinated armed attack by regime forces, turning the streets of Iran into something that resembled a war zone. The world may never know the real scale of the loss and pain as a scarred nation slowly emerges from the night Iran went dark.