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😨   Iran used an internet blackout to help carry out and obscure a deadly crackdown

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Since a nationwide communications cutoff that began around Jan. 8, Iran’s authorities imposed what monitoring groups call one of the country’s most severe internet blackouts, enabling a lethal security crackdown while restricting independent verification [1][9]. State bodies reported a death toll of 3,117, but rights groups and activists put the figure far higher (UN rapporteur and Human Rights Activists News Agency cite ~5,000+; some NGOs warn the toll could be in the tens of thousands), and thousands of detentions have been reported [2][9][1]. Eyewitness and human-rights reporting describes mass shootings in cities such as Mashhad and overwhelmed hospitals; survivors and doctors documented hundreds of corpses and hundreds of emergency operations for blast and eye injuries [7][0][4].

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