{"id":83942,"date":"2026-01-25T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83942"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:06:15","slug":"death-toll-from-irans-brutal-crackdown-on-protesters-soars-past-33000-double-previous-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/25\/death-toll-from-irans-brutal-crackdown-on-protesters-soars-past-33000-double-previous-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from Iran&#8217;s brutal crackdown on protesters soars past 33,000 &#8211; double previous estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1UUjh1.img?w=534&amp;h=794&amp;m=6&amp;x=217&amp;y=251&amp;s=240&amp;d=240\" alt=\"Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran, last week\" width=\"410\" height=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 33,000 protesters have been killed in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Iran<\/a> following the regime&#8217;s brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/death-toll-from-iran-s-brutal-crackdown-on-protesters-soars-past-33-000-double-previous-estimates\/ar-AA1UUtt4?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69752fcab5a445439fa4e697570b6dde&amp;cvpid=b12455f0ec9d4547c23184f5ac8de054&amp;ei=70\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 33,000 protesters have been killed in\u00a0Iran following the regime&#8217;s brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Khamenei-Iran.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83943,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83942\/revisions\/83943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}