The mullahs of Iran are admitted that they have executed thousands, and crushed the rebellion of the Iranian people. Where is President Trump’s red line now???

Govenment officials were proudly stating on Wednesday that the opposition to their rule was now over, and that at least 3,000 people had been killed as a result.

“The sedition is over now,” said Mohammad Movahedi, Iran’s prosecutor general, according to the judiciary’s Mizan News agency. “And we must be grateful, as always, to the people who extinguished this sedition by being in the field in a timely manner.”

The remarks were among a series of public moves by the Iranian government to portray the unrest in the country — believed at one point to be a significant threat to the regime — as completely subdued.

Among them, Iranian state TV released the first official death toll from the protests on Wednesday, saying that more than 3,000 people had been killed in the demonstrations. That figure was lower than the most recent toll of 4,519 deaths that was reported by the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, or HRANA, on Tuesday.

That number is likely dramatically undercounting the dead, not to mention the abuse and terror that has been inflicted on survivors and their families.

Reports have emerged from eyewitnesses in Iran alleging sexual assaults on teenagers held in custody, as well as authorities forcing families of those protesters killed to pay as much as 10 billion rials to recover their bodies.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US) also told Fox News Digital Wednesday that the “barbarity continues” across the nation, with prison detainees allegedly being killed and their bodies burned.

The France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) also said it received information indicating that some families were forced to pay sums of up to 10 billion rials to recover the bodies of their relatives.

In many cases, funeral ceremonies were held under heavy security control in the hometowns of those killed.

Some families were reportedly subjected to threats and pressure to falsely attribute responsibility for the killings to protesters.

KHRN further said that two protesters, including a 16-year-old, said they were sexually assaulted by Iranian security forces who detained them in Kermanshah, according to reports.

But hey, at least the foreign minister of Iran got an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal to explain why they had to kill so many people!

Iran’s foreign minister issued the most direct threat yet Wednesday against the United States after Tehran’s bloody crackdown on protesters, warning the Islamic Republic will be “firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack.”

Araghchi made the threat in an opinion article published by The Wall Street Journal. In it, the foreign minister contended “the violent phase of the unrest lasted less than 72 hours” and sought again to blame armed demonstrators for the violence. Videos that have slipped out of Iran despite an internet shutdown appear to show security forces repeatedly using live fire to target apparently unarmed protesters, something unaddressed by Araghchi.

“Unlike the restraint Iran showed in June 2025, our powerful armed forces have no qualms about firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack,” Araghchi wrote, referring to the 12-day war launched by Israel on Iran in June. “This isn’t a threat, but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war.”

He added: “An all-out confrontation will certainly be ferocious and drag on far, far longer than the fantasy timelines that Israel and its proxies are trying to peddle to the White House. It will certainly engulf the wider region and have an impact on ordinary people around the globe.”

Iran didn’t show “restraint” last June. Iran got their asses kicked by Israel, and the United States put the punctuation mark on the entire thing. Iran was exposed as a paper tiger, and its only resource was the terror cells they had funded all over the Middle East and the world. The economic collapse that triggered these protests is not over, and thousands dead does not “fix” the rotting core of the Islamic regime.

President Trump claimed that the executions were stopping. If the “red line” was public hangings, then the Iranian regime simply walked around it by just executing people in the streets. But there may be more churning behind the scenes than meets the eye, as reports have emerged that Israel asked the United States last week to not hit Iran. Was Israel concerned that if the United States struck, they would be the first target hit in retaliation? That’s a fair concern. Israel is now preparing for a possible strike, as the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group is making its way to the Middle East. President Trump confirmed in an interview with CNBC while at Davos that “assets” are moving into the area – and acknowledged that there are thousands dead.

Reports across X now indicate that the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group is getting closer. It would be amazing if the entire kerfuffle kicked up around Greenland and the proposed deal was just an elaborate distraction as the chess pieces are moved into place.

The people of Iran were promised help. If it never comes, it will be yet another lost opportunity to rid the world of the radical Islamist threat that has held the country of Iran in a chokehold for over forty years. The regime is both gloating about the number of dead, and daring anyone to do anything about it. The window of opportunity is closing. If anything happens, it will have to be soon.

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