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Iran\u2019s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests<\/a> has killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Middle East to lead any American military response<\/a> to the crisis.
Iran\u2019s currency, the rial, meanwhile fell to a record low of 1.5 million to $1.
The arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and guided missile destroyers accompanying it provide the U.S. the ability to strike Iran, particularly as Gulf Arab states have signaled they want to stay out of any attack despite hosting American military personnel.
Two Iranian-backed militias in the Mideast have signaled their willingness to launch new attacks, likely trying to back Iran after President Donald Trump<\/a> threatened military action over the killing of peaceful protesters or Tehran launching mass executions in the wake of the demonstrations.
Iran has repeatedly threatened to drag the entire Mideast into a war, though its air defenses and military are still reeling after the June war launched by Israel against the country. But the pressure on its economy may spark new unrest as everyday goods slowly go out of reach of its people.
Tuesday\u2019s new figures came from the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in multiple rounds of unrest in Iran. The group verifies each death with a network of activists on the ground in Iran.
It identified the dead as including at least 5,777 protesters, 214 government-affiliated forces, 86 children and 49 civilians who weren\u2019t demonstrating. The crackdown has seen over 41,800 arrests, it added.
The Associated Press has been unable to independently assess the death toll given authorities cutting off the internet and disrupting calls into the Islamic Republic.
Iran\u2019s government has put the death toll at a far lower 3,117, saying 2,427 were civilians and security forces, and labeled the rest \u201cterrorists.\u201d In the past, Iran\u2019s theocracy has undercounted or not reported fatalities from unrest.
That death toll exceeds that of any other round of protest or unrest there in decades, and recalls the chaos surrounding Iran\u2019s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The protests in Iran began on Dec. 28, sparked by the fall of the Iranian currency, the rial, and quickly spread across the country. They were met by a violent crackdown by Iran\u2019s theocracy, the scale of which is only starting to become clear as the country has faced more than two weeks of internet blackout \u2014 the most comprehensive in its history.
Iran\u2019s U.N. ambassador told a U.N. Security Council meeting late Monday that Trump\u2019s repeated threats to use military force against the country \u201care neither ambiguous nor misinterpreted.\u201d Amir Saeid Iravani also repeated allegations that the U.S. leader incited violence by \u201carmed terrorist groups\u201d supported by the United States and Israel, but gave no evidence to support his claims.
Iranian state media has tried to accuse forces abroad for the protests as the theocracy remains broadly unable to address the country\u2019s ailing economy, which is still squeezed by international sanctions, particularly over its nuclear program.
On Tuesday, exchange shops offered the record-low rial-to-dollar rate in Tehran.
Already, Iran has vastly limited its subsidized currency rates to cut down on corruption. It also has offered the equivalent of $7 a month to most people in the country to cover rising costs. However, Iran\u2019s people have seen the rial fall from 32,000 to $1 just a decade ago \u2014 which has devoured the value of their savings.
Iran projected its power across the Mideast through the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d a network of proxy militant groups in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq, and other places. It was also seen as a defensive buffer, intended to keep conflict away from Iranian borders. But it has collapsed after Israel targeted Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon and others during the Gaza war. Meanwhile, rebels in 2024 overthrew Syria\u2019s Bashar Assad after a yearslong, bloody war in which Iran backed his rule.
Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, have repeatedly warned they could resume fire if needed on shipping in the Red Sea, releasing old footage of a previous attack Monday. Ahmad \u201cAbu Hussein\u201d al-Hamidawi, the leader of Iraq\u2019s Kataib Hezbollah militia, warned \u201cthe enemies that the war on the (Islamic) Republic will not be a picnic; rather, you will taste the bitterest forms of death, and nothing will remain of you in our region.\u201d
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, one of Iran\u2019s staunchest allies, refused to say how it planned to react in the case of a possible attack.
\u201cDuring the past two months, several parties have asked me a clear and frank question: If Israel and America go to war against Iran, will Hezbollah intervene or not?\u201d Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Kassem said in a video address.
He said the group is preparing for \u201cpossible aggression and is determined to defend\u201d against it. But as to how it would act, he said, \u201cthese details will be determined by the battle and we will determine them according to the interests that are present.\u201d
The Associated Press
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