I caught a couple of minutes of Brian Hook's briefing on C-Span. And in it he described a horrific scene. Here's a snippet from the State Dept -- website:
Good morning. I have three announcements today on Iran, but I will first start by addressing the atrocities the Iranian regime has committed against its own people. On November 16th, protests were spreading throughout the country. In Mahshahr, a city in southwest Iran, a number of Iranian demonstrators blocked a road. The State Department has received videos of what happened next. Without warning, the IRGC opened fire on the protesters, killing several people. Many of the protesters fled to nearby marshlands to escape. The IRGC tracked them down and surrounded them with machine guns mounted on trucks. They then sprayed the protesters with bullets. Between the rounds of machine gun fire, the screams of the victims can be heard. In this one incident alone, the regime murdered as many as a hundred Iranians and possibly more. When it was over, the regime loaded the bodies into trucks. We do not yet know where these bodies went, but we are learning more and more about how the Iranian regime treats its own people.
Iran is ruled by tyrants, and this is the way tyrants act toward dissenters.
How fortunate we are to live in a country that tolerates dissent, and we're probably fortunate that the Brits were not that brutal when the colonies were stirring prior to the American revolution. Hopefully the tolerance we are currently experiencing will last a few more generations.
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1:09 PM 12/8/2019
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