Iran Massively Recruits Kids, Women As Casualties Top 100,000

The human cost of Trump's war on Iran skyrocketed as Iran mobilized tens of thousands of civilians.

Iran deployed 60,000 Basij volunteers including women and teenage girls.

Al Jazeera

New York Post revealed Iran was recruiting children as young as 12.

AP described mass burials of war dead in Iran as an increasingly difficult reality.

Pressure on activists, journalists, academics, and non-political prisoners reached unprecedented levels.

Arrests and convictions of activists sharply increased while executions rose to the highest level.

AP News

Authorities were executing on average one person every three hours in October.

Protesters in Ghazal-Hesar Prison sewed their lips shut in desperation.

Iran's war generals acknowledged the country's economic paralysis.

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BBC

Iran's infrastructure collapse was causing unprecedented hardship and growing anger.

A poll found 89% viewed chemical attacks as genocide.

Iranian oil exports were forced to halt entirely after strikes sank a tanker.

Gulf states moved flagship carriers out of the Persian Gulf.

Russia and China condemned the strikes as illegal aggression.

Russia demanded the US vacate military bases in the Middle East.

DW

Iranian outlets celebrated retaliatory strikes on Haifa and Ras Tanura.

The war is a broader geopolitical crisis.