Overview
- Iran Human Rights reports at least 3,428 protesters killed and roughly 20,000 detained, figures that remain hard to verify due to sweeping internet and phone shutdowns and reported jamming of satellite links.
- Monitors and witnesses describe the use of heavy military weapons, targeted fire on fleeing demonstrators, widespread militarization of cities and newly imposed curfews.
- An Institute for the Study of War analysis finds the protests largely suppressed for now after extreme violence by security forces, yet assesses renewed unrest remains possible.
- Germany advised the Munich Security Conference to withdraw its invitation to Iran’s foreign minister, and multiple German states, including North Rhine-Westphalia, imposed temporary deportation stops to Iran.
- U.S. media report the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is being redeployed toward the Middle East following Trump’s warnings, though the Pentagon has not confirmed the move.