Iran has sought to conceal protest deaths through mass burials - Guardian

Iranian authorities have sought to conceal the scale of killings during the crackdown on the recent protests through mass burials and the removal of bodies from hospitals and morgues, the Guardian reported on Tuesday, citing testimony from doctors and forensic staff.

Medical workers told the newspaper that bodies have been transported in trucks and buried rapidly to hide the number of dead. One doctor was quoted as saying: “They’ve mass murdered people. No one can imagine … I saw just blood, blood and blood.”

Another doctor said the injuries documented showed “a brutality without limit – both in scale and in method,” adding that publicly cited death figures were “a severe underestimation,” according to the report.

The Guardian said the accounts are based on testimony from medics, morgue workers and graveyard staff across multiple provinces.