The Scale of the Iranian Massacre Comes into View

There can be no doubt that the Iranian regime and the thugs in its control brazenly disregarded Donald Trump’s warning of the consequences that would follow the slaughter of anti-establishment protesters. Even when Trump tried to give regime officials an out — claiming that Tehran had declined to go through with the scheduled executions of political dissenters — Iranian prosecutors insisted that the president was wrong. The tempo of repression and brutality, the regime’s officials maintained, would not slacken.

With information flowing out of the Islamic Republic slowing to a crawl after the regime shut down digital and telephonic communications with the outside world, the scale of the massacre the clerisy had engineered was unknowable. But as the regime has gradually loosened those restrictions amid its newfound confidence in its survival, the scope of the carnage is coming into view.