Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly rejected a U.S. magazine report on the death toll during January unrest. Nationwide protests erupted in response to soaring inflation and a national currency crisis.
Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei tagged it a “A Hitler-style big lie,” in a post on X, adding “isn't this the number they planned to kill in the streets of Iran?!”.
His comment comes after the New York-based American news magazine Time claimed “as many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone.”
Unrest broke out on 29 December and spread rapidly across the country after street protests over rocketing inflation and a steep fall in the Iranian currency, the Rial.
The official questioned the reported death toll terming it "fake news" as part of the western media warfare against Iran.
“They failed, though, and now they're trying to fake it in the media. Truly vicious!,” read his post.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the death toll in the riots reached 3,117, including both civilians and members of the security forces because, he added, armed terrorists were present among the demonstrators on 8 January.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf made a similar claim a week earlier. He said “thousands” of people were killed during the protests, adding that the high number was due to attacks by “terrorists and Daesh-style (Islamic State)” agents against by-passers and law-enforcement forces.
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