{"id":24483,"date":"2026-01-12T21:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iq\/?p=24483"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:47:58","slug":"at-least-648-protesters-killed-in-iran-crackdown-rights-group-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/at-least-648-protesters-killed-in-iran-crackdown-rights-group-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 648 Protesters Killed in Iran Crackdown, Rights Group Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 648 protesters have been killed by Iranian security forces during the ongoing protest movement, according to a report released Monday by Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR). The organization warned that the actual death toll is likely far higher.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of IHR, stated, &#8220;The international community has a duty to protect civilian protesters against mass killing by the Islamic republic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rights group noted that verifying the total number of fatalities remains a significant challenge due to the nearly four-day internet blackout imposed by Iranian authorities. &#8220;According to some estimates more than 6,000 may have been killed,&#8221; IHR reported, but emphasized the difficulty in independently confirming these figures under current conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 648 protesters have been killed by Iranian security forces during the ongoing protest movement, according to a report released Monday by Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR). The organization warned that the actual death toll is likely far higher. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of IHR, stated, &#8220;The international community has a duty to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"7","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"left-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"topbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_post_split":{"post_split":[{"template":"1","tag":"h2","numbering":"asc","mode":"normal","first":"0","enable_toc":"0","toc_type":"normal"}]},"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[94,1289,284,161],"class_list":["post-24483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-iran","tag-protests","tag-rights","tag-toll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24486,"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483\/revisions\/24486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}