Iran regime opened fire with live ammunition on protesters, doctor says: ‘Shoot-to-kill’
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Category: PERSECUTION OF GOD’S PEOPLE
Summary:
Iranian security forces escalated their response to protests starting December 28 by shifting from pellet guns to live ammunition around January 8, leading to a significant increase in casualties, according to a doctor who treated wounded demonstrators and later fled the country. The doctor reported that injuries changed from pellet wounds to gunshot wounds, some fatal, coinciding with nationwide internet blackouts and increased use of heavy machine guns by IRGC units. Human rights groups estimate that the crackdown has resulted in over 3,000 deaths across Iran. The protests originated from economic grievances but expanded into broader anti-government demonstrations.
Mysterion Insights
Scripture: Isaiah 59:7-8
"Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways. They do not know the way of peace, And there is no justice in their tracks;"
Commentary:
The use of escalating force against citizens in Iran, shifting from non-lethal to deadly weapons, directly echoes how Scripture identifies unjust violence and the absence of peace in a nation. Seeing a government turn machinery of war on its own people is chilling. Hard conversations happen among families about safety, trust, and hope. These kinds of crackdowns are part of broader patterns the prophets warned would intensify as peoples and governments reject righteousness. Scripture exposes the spiritual roots of such actions, reminding us this is not simply political unrest.
Prophetic Trend:
Unrestrained violence against ordinary Iranians signals deepening unrest and hardening opposition to justice that fits with end-time prophetic patterns of increasing lawlessness.
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Source Excerpt:
Iranian security forces escalated from pellet guns to live ammunition during protests, sharply increasing casualties, a doctor who treated wounded demonstrators told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).Speaking after fleeing the country, the doctor told CHRI the use of live fire increased the death toll days after protests erupted Dec. 28."Law enforcement forces were firing pellet shotguns that scatter pellets. During those days, I received five or six calls per day about people who had been hit by two pellets in the back or pellets to the head or scalp," the doctor claimed.The doctor said he noticed the situation shifted on Jan. 8, when authorities imposed internet blackouts and cut off communication nationwide.NETANYAHU AND RUBIO DISCUSS US MILITARY INTERVENTION IN IRAN AMID ONGOING NATIONWIDE PROTESTS: REPORT"From about 8:10 to 8:20 pm, the sound of bullets, gunfire, screams, and sporadic explosions could be heard. I was called to the hospital. When I arrived, I saw that the nature of the injuries and the number of gunshot wounds had changed completely," the doctor said of the days around the blackout."The situation was totally different. Shots from close range, injuries ...
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Source: Fox News
Posted on 01-13-2026 19:47