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Protests in Iran, day 30: Iran accuses US of “human rights violations” in Minneapolis

By: Arnt Jensvoll   27. January 2026, 07:00
A spokesman for the Islamic Foreign Ministry claims that American federal agents are violating human rights in Minnesota. Illustration: ChatGPT

Many Iranians are wondering where Donald Trump is going. The answer is that he is still thinking. Military success against command-and-control targets in Iran is possible, but the real costs are in the chain reaction: economic pain, regional instability and the risk of empowering hardliners if the job isn’t done. That’s Trump’s delay – it’s not indecision but sober calculation; it concerns the lives of 90 million people.

Iranian protesters accuse Donald Trump of betrayal following reports of the regime’s mass killings, according to Time: – Trump promised to act if protesters were attacked. The promise was not fulfilled. Some argue that the regime’s intentions were clearer than Washington’s. – We are so desperate that we are waiting for another country to attack our country. We hope it can save us.

The mood in Iran is changing

Report from the Institute for the Study of War:

– Iranian government officials have leaked damaging details to Western media, suggesting internal dissent about the regime’s brutality.

On 9 January, Ali Khamenei ordered Iran’s National Security Council to crush the protests by any means necessary. He instructed security forces to shoot to kill and show no mercy. Two officials briefed on the directive confirmed the order. The response was reportedly coordinated by Ali Larijani, the secretary of the SNSC, which on 15 January was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department.

The death toll is estimated to be very high. Two senior Iranian officials told TIME on 25 January that around 30,000 people may have been killed on 8 and 9 January alone. Other leaks point to similarly high numbers. The opposition and human rights groups describe the repression as “unprecedented”

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Twenty million barrels of oil are transported through the Strait of Hormuz every day – that’s twenty per cent of the world’s oil supply. Iran has historically mined the Strait and practised disruption. The minefield will persist for years; full clearance will take months or years, posing a serious threat to global trade and the economy.

– Sources in Iran have contacted me via Starlink and reported that protesters stormed and set fire to the Palestinian Embassy in Tehran. It is rumoured that the ambassador was seriously injured. In retaliation, Palestinian-affiliated groups attacked the Hayyim Synagogue and other Jewish sites. It is claimed that several Iranian Jews were brutally killed.

Emirates and Jordan give US full support against Iran

– The United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and Jordan are expected to provide full logistical and intelligence support to the US military in the event of a US attack on Iran.

The aircraft carrier “Abraham Lincoln” has arrived in the Middle East and is within attack range of Iran. Telegram

Iran has 610,000 active soldiers, 190,000 IRGC and up to 450,000 mobilisable Basij – a total of over one million soldiers.

@Terror_Alarm claims that Iran is evacuating its embassies in the UK and Denmark. This is not true. However, the UK has evacuated its embassy in Tehran. Australia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, New Zealand and Portugal have in January 2026 temporarily closed or evacuated personnel from their embassies in Tehran.

A proud killer

His name is Hamid Reza Khani. He is a Basij militiaman in the terrorist organisation IRGC, one of thousands involved in the massacre of 40,000 Iranian protesters. In a Telegram video, he claims that he used his own gun to kill protesters.

A Basiji openly brags about killing Iranian citizens: “I have killed so many of their children. I have torn out the nails of girls with pliers. I have killed their daughters.

This monster has since been doxxed. People now know his address and phone number.

– Ali Khamenei has a “network of bunkers” built by the IRGC, which he moves between in times of conflict and unrest. We’ve uncovered and mapped them all.

Ali Khamenei appoints successors

Iran has drawn up a “Plan B” under which Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has selected potential successors and appointed new military officers. The strategy, which excludes his son Mojtaba, comes after increased threats and the assassination of a senior commander.</p

I think the current regime is starting to realise that the end is near…

– Israeli intelligence is reportedly providing the US with lists of IRGC officers who ordered and participated in the massacres. They are expected to be eliminated in the upcoming attack.

– The Secretary General of Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq last night issued an official statement calling to “prepare for total war in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran”. The statement said that all terrorists must be mobilised on behalf of Iran.

Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi further stated that “the deceitful forces of the Zionists are gathering in an attempt to subjugate, destroy and wipe out all moral principles from the face of the earth”. Amir Tsarfati on Telegram

“The next time Iranians take to the streets, it won’t be rocks against bullets. It will be bullets against bullets. Stay tuned, we are prepared.

The stream of anecdotal stories is endless. Once the country normalises, all confirmed anecdotes will enter the grand narrative of crimes committed in the name of Allah.

– In this video, a forensic scientist says that the uterus of female victims must be removed before a burial certificate can be issued.

There are two reasons for this:

To conceal gunshot injuries to protesters’ reproductive organs, which under international law constitute deliberate and targeted killing and are classified as a crime against humanity.
To conceal evidence in cases of sexual assault before death, thereby preventing further investigation and judicial follow-up.

– The Islamic Republic released a video of an 18-year-old boy named Shervin Bagherian Jebeli from Isfahan. In the video, he is forced to confess to false charges.

At the end, an agent of the regime says that “the judgement is moharebeh”. Shervin asks what that is.

“It means execution.”

His mother is devastated and asks all of us to be the voice of her son and his family. Please don’t forget his name: Shervin Bagherian Jebeli.

Leaked documents say Iran’s supreme leader told security forces to crush the unrest without mercy “by any means necessary”. That included orders to shoot to kill without restraint.

US violates human rights in Minneapolis

The spokesperson for the Islamic Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the handling of the Minneapolis protests by US federal agents. Esmaeil Baghaei claims that the Minnesota police are violating human rights.

– Iranian state media has announced that sharing videos of the massacres is a criminal offence. If a video is sent to foreign media outlets such as Iran International or Western networks, the offence is categorised as “collaboration with hostile states”. The offence can lead to ten years in prison or the death penalty.

This is what you in the West need to be aware of

– The reason Iranian protesters are burning mosques is not blind hatred, we are not Palestinians. It has a concrete, practical reason, and for the West there is a very important lesson in it:</p

The mosques are not places of worship, they serve as bases of operations for the regime’s militias in residential areas. The mosques house arms depots for the Basij militias. They serve as headquarters for repression and temporary detention centres for protesters.

For decades, mosques have served as recruitment and indoctrination centres for the regime. They are used to radicalise and transform people into hate-filled killing machines against their own community. Decades of preparation are now yielding results.

The same pattern is now developing in Western cities through mosques and community centres. These efforts are linked to groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Palestinian networks. This is something you in the West need to be aware of.

Critics who point this out are accused of “Islamophobia”. This accusation is a deliberate tactic. Don’t take it at face value.

Western societies must not fall for the same deceptions. Stop them before it’s too late.

In Sweden, Palestinians attacked Iranians during a peaceful demonstration.

– This is the story of a hero named Mohammad Goli, a brave firefighter from the city of Najafabad. On the 8th of January, he drove his fire engine forward and used it as a barrier between security forces and protesters when he saw police using machine guns to massacre protesters in front of a police station.

He was shot 11 times by the regime’s security forces, but he saved many lives.

 

The protests in Iran, day 29: The price of the religion of peace is measured in body count

 

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