Sam Faddis

Now, will that still leave some crazy people running around the street?

Yes, obviously.

But we'll transform this thing overnight from you having to pick these guys off individually.

Well, look, there have been protests all across Iran now for weeks.

These are not minor, these are major.

They have clearly been a threat to the regime.

That is legitimate, that's real.

Starting four or five days ago now, I'm losing track of time, the regime began to confront them violently in the street.

And at some point over the last few days, four days probably at this point, that shifted to simply opening fire

indiscriminately en masse against people in the street.

So that doesn't mean police officers were authorized to use lethal force when they were compelled to.

It means regime forces, which includes IRGC and what they call the besiege, which are essentially their thugs to keep people in line, went out in the street and just began to mow folks down

And even when they were running away and trying to flee, they were pursued and they were killed in the street.

And even when they were wounded and dragged off to the hospital, in some cases they were hunted down in the hospital and executed in the hospital.

And then these bodies have been dumped in collection sites all across the country and families are now reduced to going and picking through.

hundreds of corpses in each location trying to find their they're largely their kids who were executed and then on top of that what the regime has done is impose essentially a prohibition on funerals and public burials which is obviously designed to

Essentially, this is all about disappearing people, right?

So you don't want to have events at which people can show up in large numbers and mourn and pay their respects.

You want these bodies to just be put in the ground and go away and for everyone to shut up and pretend that it didn't happen.

So that is the state of play.