As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll.

So many people were slaughtered by Iranian security services on that Thursday and Friday, it overwhelmed the state’s capacity to dispose of the dead. Stocks of body bags were exhausted, the officials said, and eighteen-wheel semi-trailers replaced ambulances.

The government’s internal count of the dead, not previously revealed, far surpasses the toll of 3,117 announced on Jan. 21 by regime hardliners who report directly to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (Ministries report to the elected President.) The 30,000 figure is also far beyond tallies being compiled by activists methodically assigning names to the dead. As of Saturday, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said it had confirmed 5,459 deaths and is investigating 17,031 more.

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    Are you unaware that the US have moved aircraft carriers to the middle east and stationed f35s and f15s in bases across the middle east in preparation for a full out war with Iran literally any second now?

    Are you unaware that Israel and the US MSM are running a huge progranda campaign to manufacture consent for attacking Iran?

    Are you unaware that Israel is in a state of “maximum alert” for potential retaliation or even preemptive attacks from Iran?

    Are you unaware that Israel’s government both pressuring Trump to attack Iran and is worried Trump wants an easy Venezuela style “regime change” and what it means if the US gives up and Trump calls Iranians brave like he did with the Houthis after they didn’t buckle to US show of force?

    Are you unaware that Israel is incompetently lying about Iran killing Jews? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUAUHXgCF1S/

    Yeah… He didn’t forget about Iran, he just wants you to be onboard with the intervention. Israel and the US are preparing to bomb the fuck out of Iran, and they’re selling it rescuing Iranians.