Iranian security forces slaughtered 544 souls amid a savage 15-day crackdown on nationwide anti-regime protests exploding since December 28, driven by skyrocketing inflation, bread riots, and fury at clerical chokeholds, according to U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The grim toll breaks down to 483 protesters gunned down, 47 security goons slain in clashes, five bystander civilians, and eight kids under 18 – with 579 more deaths pending verification amid a total internet blackout strangling info flows from 186 cities across all 31 provinces. Over 10,600 dragged to gulags, protests raged at 585 spots despite Basij thugs and IRGC death squads turning streets into kill zones, topping even 2022's Mahsa Amini uprising body count.
HRANA's insider net pierced the blackout to tally the massacre, spotlighting Esfahan's 30 cop cadavers and IRGC meatgrinder in Kermanshah-West Azerbaijan, as Tehran muzzles media and slashes lines – ISW warns real security losses top 114 per regime hacks. Trump blasted the "red line" cross Sunday, eyeing "very strong options" from D.C. war rooms as ayatollahs' iron fist fuels chants toppling Khamenei's throne after Raisi ghost grips economy in hyperinflation hell. Protests dwarf prior waves, economic choke ignites bazaars to slums – youth hurl stones at snipers, women shred hijabs, underground cells swell.
World recoils at live burial footage smuggled out, UN rights hawks demand probes as diaspora riots torch consulates from London to L.A. Nigeria watches warily, diaspora Iranians in Abuja-Lagos rally solidarity amid own doc strikes and Tinubu jets. Tehran vows "national interests" defense, but streets scream regime's end nears – 544 ghosts haunt the mullahs. Revolution simmers, Trump weighs strikes.