Sickening images show a courtyard littered with body bags as Iran’s regime continues to slaughter protesters.
Relatives inspect the gruesome sight of body bags in a courtyard (Image: Getty )
Horrifying photographs have emerged of body bags strewn across the floor of a courtyard in Iran after authorities launched a brutal crackdown on protesters, slaughtering at least 500 people. The sickening images, which appear to show the murderous scale of the hardline government crackdown, were taken in Kahrizak, a suburb to the South of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
In some of the pictures, people who could be distraught relatives or loved ones, are seen sobbing by a number of the bags as they mourn the loss of those said to have been butchered by the Islamic authorities.
The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has accurately reported on past unrest in Iran, has said at least 544 people have been killed in protests against the Government, which have raged across the country for the past two weeks. Of the dead, 496 are said to have been demonstrators and 48 are understood to have been security officials. The agency said more than 10,600 people have also been detained over the two weeks of protests.
These new photos appear to show the horrendous scale of the bloodshed, with body bags laid out for family members to collect in the Forensic Diagnostic and Laboratory Centre of Tehran Province.
A man, thought to be a relative, weeps at the feet of a deceased person in a body bag (Image: Getty )
In Britain, large protests of Iranians supporting the demonstrators back home have erupted in London. At the weekend, one brave protester scaled the outer walls of the Iranian Embassy in London and replaced the current flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the former flag used by the country before the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Sir Keir Starmer has been slammed by a member of the Iranian Royal Family for Number 10’s “silence” over the bloody protests. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is the son of the last Iranian Shah (King), who was deposed during the Islamic Revolution, which has seen the country ruled by hardline Islamic clerics ever since.
The Crown Prince said Downing Street and the Foreign Office had shunned him on his visit to the UK. He told the Mail Online it was “not very British”, before appealing to the Prime Minister directly, adding: “I beg you, don’t throw a lifeline to this regime. Stand with the Iranian people. Appeasement is not working. Don’t straddle the fence.”
A man can be seen attempting to move a body bag on the street (Image: Getty )
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said she was not against the Iranian military wing, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) Corps, being proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
Asked if she would support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps being proscribed as a terrorist organisation, she said: “So I’m not against that, but we already have powers within the National Security Act in order to ban organisations like the IRGC, at the end of the day, they are the army of an enemy country. We don’t need to have a ban. There are loads of laws and legislation in place. Let’s use them.”
Put to her that there have been huge protests and Donald Trump has threatened to intervene, and asked if she would support British involvement in that and if she supports regime change, she said: “What we have seen in Iran is a lot of people fighting for their freedom, and we’re on the side of those people, many of whom are giving up their lives, sacrificing their lives for a better country.
“We know that regime makes life awful for women, awful for gay people. It is repressive and brutal. So yes, I would like to see a regime change, because it is a country that is harmful to Britain, and having a better Iran is in Britain’s national interest.”
