Valiant Western efforts to undermine the Iranian regime’s internet lockdown notwithstanding, the flow of information out of the Islamic Republic over the last week has slowed to a trickle. We know that the regime’s security forces engaged in a horrific massacre of anti-regime demonstrators, but the scale of the slaughter cannot be known. There are, however, disturbing indications that the massacre was so intensely brutal that it sent the protest movement’s survivors into hiding.
Citing human rights activists and unnamed sources anonymously ferrying dispatches to the outside world, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Iranians are “reporting an eerie quiet after days of escalating violence”:
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