Tuesday, January 13, 2026

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Photo received with description: 'Military vehicle equipped with machine gun in Sadeghiyeh (Ariashahr), #Tehran, Thursday, January 8th' Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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♦️Donald Trump, the US President, responded to a journalist's question asking "Is America advising its allies to leave Iran?" by saying: "They better get out, that's a good idea." @VahidOOnLine Germany's Foreign Ministry has asked its citizens to leave Iran. The ministry issued a statement directed at citizens still present in Iran, recommending they maintain adequate supplies of water, food, medicine, fuel, and communication tools. France's Foreign Ministry has also asked its citizens to leave Iran. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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The website Axios reported, citing a senior U.S. official, that Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special representative, held a confidential meeting with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi last weekend. Caroline Leavitt, White House spokesperson, said the White House national security team held a meeting Tuesday morning about response options to the Iran protests, but Donald Trump was not present at this meeting. According to a U.S. official, Israel has shared its assessment with the United States. This American official said: "The Iranians are carrying out widespread repression." @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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According to information obtained by Manoto network, the United States is considering an operation to strike military and security targets inside Iran within the next 96 hours. This information, provided to Manoto by an informed Middle Eastern source, indicates that the planned targets include command headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij militia at various locations throughout Iran. According to Manoto's sources, these attacks would be carried out using guided cruise missiles. The informed source says that no final decision has been made to execute this operation, and the scope, intensity, and duration remain undetermined. This report comes as hours earlier, Donald Trump called on Iranian protesters to continue their demonstrations, saying "help is on the way." He also announced that he has canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the killing of protesters stops. Meanwhile, the Israeli military has announced it has raised its alert level due to the possibility of American intervention in Iran. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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Donald Trump, when asked about American assistance to the Iranian people, said this matter will become clear within the next 24 hours. Responding to a question about the number of protesters killed, he added: "No one has been able to give me an exact number. I've heard various figures. Even one person is too many. It will probably become clear within the next 24 hours and we'll find out." @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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Donald Trump, responding to a question about "help that is on the way for Iran," said: "You will find out for yourselves." He added: "Americans leaving Iran is a good decision." @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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♦️Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday, January 13th, citing government sources in Iran, that the death toll from the ongoing protests has reached approximately 2,000 people. The Associated Press also confirmed, quoting the "Iran Human Rights Activists Collective," that around 2,000 people have been killed during these protests - 1,847 of them protesters and 135 government agents. Skyler Thompson, an official with the "Iran Human Rights Activists Collective," described these figures as "shocking" in an interview with the Associated Press and warned that due to communication blackouts, this number is likely "conservative" and will increase. According to this report, at least 9 children are among the victims and more than 16,700 people have been arrested. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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Exclusive video footage from Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery on Sunday, January 11, 2026, has reached Manoto showing a significant crowd of families and relatives of protest victims. In these images, angry mourners holding photos of their loved ones are chanting slogans against Ali Khamenei. This gathering took place while no official report has yet been released by government institutions regarding their response or treatment of protesters. An Islamic Republic security official told Reuters news agency that the death toll could be around 2,000 people. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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♦️ Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed "horror" on Tuesday, January 13th over the escalating violence against protesters in Iran, demanding an immediate end to the crackdowns and the restoration of internet access. In an official statement, Türk called the labeling of protesters as "terrorists" to justify violence unacceptable, emphasizing that the Iranian people's demands for justice and equality must be heard. Referring to horrific reports of hospitals overflowing with wounded, he warned of the possibility that authorities could issue immediate death sentences for those detained. Meanwhile, Iran Human Rights (IHR) announced it has confirmed the deaths of at least 648 people, including 9 children. However, due to widespread internet blackouts, the actual death toll is estimated to exceed 6,000. Donald Trump, threatening military intervention, has announced a 25% tariff on trade with any country that cooperates with the Islamic Republic. The UN emphasized that all human rights violations must be investigated according to international standards and those responsible must be punished. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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♦️ The New York Times reported Tuesday, January 13th, citing a U.S. official that Donald Trump is reviewing military options to respond to the deadly crackdown on protesters in Iran, though he is also considering diplomatic channels. According to the U.S. official, the Pentagon has presented Trump with a wide range of targets, including nuclear programs and ballistic missile sites. However, informed officials believe more limited options such as cyber attacks or targeting security institutions responsible for the crackdowns are more likely. Trump had previously declared that the use of deadly force against protesters was his "red line." White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt emphasized Monday that airstrikes are just one option on the table, adding: "Diplomacy is always the President's first priority." She also noted that confidential messages received from Tehran have a different tone than their harsh public rhetoric, which Trump is interested in exploring. Axios had earlier reported that Trump was set to be briefed on the final details of these plans on Tuesday. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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Israeli media reports that Netanyahu's political-security cabinet will convene at 7 PM local time to discuss Iran. Ynet wrote that this meeting will review topics including "possible plans for transitioning to an attack on the Islamic Republic" in coordination with the United States. Plans for attacking the Islamic Republic have become more serious in recent days as protests have intensified. Donald Trump first warned the Islamic Republic not to crack down on protesters during his meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in America. After that, he issued several more warnings with increasingly serious tone, and most recently said the military is reviewing how to deal with the Islamic Republic. American media have reported that the US government has presented Trump with options for confronting the Islamic Republic due to the repression and killings, one of which is a military option.

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I understand that we're all in a deeply troubling situation. I know many of you are alone somewhere in the world with no one but me to talk to, but today I'm also in a very bad emotional state for personal reasons and can't handle conversations. Please don't send opinions, suggestions, questions, or artwork. I'm trying to focus on news events, but unfortunately in this news blackout I'm receiving very few videos with new information that I can forward to media outlets for fact-checking. I'm still receiving text reports, but since they're very contradictory and conflicting, I'm not publishing them. However, I desperately need them to fact-check content from other sources. I'm sorry to the worried Iranians abroad whose questions I can't answer, but please don't send me your guidance for people on the streets or draft proposals for a new constitution and such things, so I can see other messages. Thank you very much.

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New post from Donald Trump on Truth Social: Iranian patriots, keep protesting - take back your institutions! Record and preserve the names of the killers and torturers. They will pay a heavy price. I have canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the senseless massacre of protesters stops. Help is on the way. MIGA!!! Ardeshir 📡 @VahidOnline

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⚠️Disturbing Images⚠️ Images received above with description: "Kahrizak Legal Medicine Office #Tehran, Saturday January 10th" Along with this voice message: 'I traveled nearly a thousand kilometers to get internet access and send these images. These bodies you see being dumped into containers - there were more than two thousand bodies just on that day scattered on the ground. But by the time we arrived, one container was already completely filled with bodies. 18-wheelers, refrigerated containers. Whenever someone found their family member's body, the coroner would come, record the gunshot wounds, issue a permit with a code, and people would line up and transfer the body into the vehicle to take it for registration. And this number was more than roughly two to three thousand just on that one day.' ◀️ Please retweet: Vahid (There are dozens of images that I stuck together and converted into a video and uploaded on Twitter, and these are the smaller file size versions which are still very large.) 📡 @VahidOnline

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Iran International: Iran has been plunged into an organized blackout. The goal of this blackout isn't just "security control," but hiding the truth. The widespread internet cutoffs, paralysis of communications, unprecedented shutdown of media outlets, and intimidation of journalists and witnesses means one thing: preventing the observation, documentation, and investigation of a massive and historic crime. Over the past few days, Iran International received scattered but shocking and disturbing reports, and deployed all its resources with professional fact-checking to reach a more precise assessment of the scale of the brutal crackdown and ruthless massacre of people in recent protests. In a country where the government deliberately blocks access to information, reaching this assessment is difficult and time-consuming work - especially since rushing to announce incomplete casualty figures could lead to errors in recording reality and distorting the dimensions of this great tragedy. Starting Sunday, the volume of evidence and overlapping accounts reached a level where we could arrive at a relatively clear picture. Over the past two days, Iran International's editorial board has carefully examined information from a source close to the Supreme National Security Council, two sources in the presidential office, accounts from several sources within the Revolutionary Guards in the cities of Mashhad, Kermanshah and Isfahan, testimonies from eyewitnesses and families of victims, field reports, data from medical centers, and information provided to us by doctors and nurses in various cities - all reviewed precisely, in multiple stages, and according to professional standards. Based on these investigations, we concluded that: 🔻In the largest massacre in Iran's modern history, mainly over two consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday January 18-19, at least 12,000 people were killed. 🔻This massacre is unprecedented in Iranian history in terms of geographical scope, intensity of violence, and number of casualties in such a short timeframe. 🔻Based on information received by Iran International, these citizens were killed mainly by Revolutionary Guards and Basij forces. 🔻This massacre was completely organized - not the result of "scattered" and "unplanned clashes." 🔻Information received by Iran International from the Supreme National Security Council and the presidential office shows this massacre was carried out on the personal orders of Ali Khamenei, with the knowledge and explicit approval of the heads of all three branches of government and the Supreme National Security Council's order to shoot directly. Many of the victims were young people under 30. 🔻Casualty estimates Based on available data and cross-referencing information obtained from reliable sources including the Supreme National Security Council and the presidential office, the initial estimate by Islamic Republic security institutions is that at least 12,000 people were killed in this nationwide massacre. Obviously, under conditions of communication blockade and lack of direct access to information, reaching final figures requires more precise documentation. Experience in recent years shows that security institutions have always avoided recording and announcing accurate casualty figures through concealment. iranintl People are asking in messages if this is true? I really don't know. Only one media outlet has announced a number so far. Other media and human rights organizations haven't said anything yet because estimation and assessment is so difficult. I'm just one person and don't have teams and connections and confidential non-public information, but based on citizen reports I can say it's completely believable to me. But the problem with news suppression is that one zero less or more is also believable! Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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BBC has written about these videos circulating on social media: These two videos from protests on Revolution Street, Valiasr intersection have been released. It's said this protest is from Monday evening, January 12th. Due to internet cuts, verifying some of these videos is difficult. @VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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**US Virtual Embassy Alert to American Citizens in Iran (via Google Chrome translation)** The United States has urged all its nationals to immediately leave Iran. The US Virtual Embassy, referencing nationwide protests in Iran and their turn toward violence, as well as communication and internet shutdowns, has advised American citizens that they "should expect continued internet outages, plan to use alternative communication methods, and if it is safe to do so, consider leaving Iran overland to Armenia or Turkey." The US has further advised its citizens on how to act in the current situation, to constantly inform their families of their status, and to attempt to exit through land borders. Similar warnings were issued by several European countries on Monday, and it was reported that France has evacuated non-essential embassy staff from Tehran. @VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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Donald Trump, President of the United States, has announced that from this moment on, any country that trades with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a 25% tariff on any trade they conduct with the United States. realDonaldTrump 📡 @VahidOnline

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Tasnim News Agency announced that the US government has blocked this outlet's international .com domains. According to published reports, access to Tasnim's .com domain has been suspended. This news was published on Monday, January 12th on Tasnim News Agency's Telegram channel. Tasnim raised this issue while Iran's national uprising is ongoing, and although this outlet's .ir domain remains active, access to it has also been severely disrupted due to the complete internet shutdown. NetBlocks, the global internet monitoring organization, announced in Monday's January 12th update that Iran has been essentially "dark" for 96 hours now due to the Iranian national uprising - a situation that has severely restricted reporting and accountability regarding civilian killings, even as protests continue and people demand change. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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France's news agency reported that non-essential staff from their embassy in Tehran, Iran have left the country. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline