The Iranian Protesters Nobody Counted: Top Photos

Nahid Shirpisheh watched security forces kill her son — then Iran imprisoned her for asking why.

The great January C.E.2026 (H.E.12,026) protests of Iran
Protesters fill the streets during the January 2026 uprising that would become the deadliest crackdown since the 1979 revolution, with an estimated 30,000 killed in forty-eight hours. © Hosseinronaghi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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