Iran Watch — IRSA's editorial record of the uprising
MonthsDaysHoursMinutesSecondssince the massacre. The blackout continues.So must attention.
We remember the brave.
On the nights of January 8 and 9, 2026, the Islamic Republic cut Iran’s internet and opened fire on civilians who had taken to the streets. Independent verification of the toll is still ongoing.
The IRSA team made this short film for Nowruz 2585 — a quiet tribute to the women, men and children who did not come home. Press play when you are ready.
- Executions353 documented in February 2026 across 31 provinces and 65 cities — Iran HRM
- PaceOne execution every two hours during the final week of January 2026
- Record12 new witness testimonies added to the Iran Watch archive this week
- BlackoutInternet enters day 8 in Zahedan — families cannot reach families
- Exhibition"A Modern Genocide in the 21st Century" — opening Queens, NY
- Volunteers47 testimonies awaiting translation; translators needed at [email protected]
- UN2025 marked the deadliest year for executions in Iran in decades — OHCHR
Recent Tweets · From the organizations on the ground
A US strike hit a communications tower in the Kuhestak area of Sirik county on Tuesday evening, according to a citizen who said the tower and surrounding area were completely destroyed. CCTV footage described on social media as showing the attack has also circulated.
US President Donald Trump says agreement with Iran "isn't worth the paper it's written on", warns of greater force if Iran retaliates. More:
Russia has secretly helped Iran develop supersonic cruise missile technology that experts say could give Tehran a new way to threaten US Navy vessels in the Middle East, the Financial Times reported, citing leaked Russian correspondence, travel records and military patents. The
IRGC claims two oil tankers hit mines and stopped in the Strait of Hormuz, alleging the vessels had offloaded their crews "at the instigation of the US Army" and been handed to "US agents."
Ali Mirrezaei, a local Mazandarani singer, was executed at Babol Prison today. He had been sentenced to death for murder following a fatal fight in 2021. Read more in HRANA’s report:
Iran's Health Ministry says a strike on a village in Hormozgan Province killed several civilians, including a child, and injured over 50 people. More:
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemns and denounces the heinous Iranian attacks carried out with missiles and hostile drones that targeted several sites in #Kuwait #KUNA
#Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemns the Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting #Kuwait, #Bahrain and #Jordan #KUNA
Motahare Goonei is a civil activist, a dentistry student at Tehran University of Medical Sciences and a former political secretary of the Islamic Association of the University of Tehran. She has faced judicial prosecution and security pressure due to her outspoken criticism of
Five Baha’i citizens from Karaj, Babak Zeinali, Sahba Taef, Fouad Taefi, Shervin Shabrokh, and Ali Bagherkashi, were arrested after reporting to the Shahriar Revolutionary Court to begin serving one-year prison sentences. Read more in HRANA’s report:
🔴 Saudi Arabia’s Bahri says that its vessel SIDR was involved in an incident while passing through the Strait of Hormuz on August 31 🔴 The company says two Filipino seafarers were killed in the incident 🔴 Bahri says it remains in contact with the vessel and is coordinating
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls the US campaign to isolate Iran economically the “final move,” declaring “this is the end of the regime” as Washington moves to sever Iran’s economic ties with the outside world and target banks and countries helping Tehran.
The State of #Qatar has strongly condemned the renewed attacks launched by the Islamic Republic of #Iran on the territories of the Hashemite Kingdom of #Jordan, the Kingdom of #Bahrain, and the State of #Kuwait. #QNA
#Kuwait Says Blaze at Residential Complex Contained After Iranian Drone Strike #QNA
Trump declared that the White House was “unleashing American Energy Dominance!” in a post on X after he met major oil refiners at the White House on Tuesday hoping to find a way to expand capacity and lower surging fuel prices which threaten higher inflation and lower economic
💢 U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright claimed 17 million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, August 31. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made the same claim today. ➤ Axios’s Barak Ravid separately reported that a US official said that around 40 ships
Live posts from public X accounts of journalists, news agencies, OSINT desks and human-rights organizations covering Iran. Tap a card to read the original.
A Call to Conscience.
“Never Again” must mean never again for anyone, anywhere.
A 180-page witness record assembling what is known about January 2026 — names, places, hospital reports, satellite testimony — alongside the independent verification work being done by HRANA, the BBC, Iran International, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch.
The preprint is openly readable. It is documentation, not commentary. It exists so the record cannot be quietly walked back.
- Documented
- February 4, 2026
- Length
- 180 pages
- Care of
- Iran Watch · IRSA at UCF
Forty-eight hours.
A communications blackout. Snipers on rooftops. Hospitals raided for the wounded. The shape of the two days that everyone documenting this story keeps returning to.
- Dec 28, 2025
Nationwide demonstrations begin after months of compounding pressure on the streets.
- Jan 8, 8:00 PM
Approximately 99% of Iran's internet connectivity is cut. Phone lines follow.
- Jan 8–9, 2026
The forty-eight hours from which the bulk of the verified records — hospital photographs, morgue footage, family testimony — would later be reconstructed.
- Jan 13, 2026
Iran International publishes its multi-stage investigation, drawing on sources inside hospitals, morgues, and the security apparatus.
- Feb 1, 2026
HRANA records 6,842 confirmed deaths and 11,280 additional cases under verification.
Independently documented.
These are not our numbers. They are the figures published, with methodology, by organisations whose verification standards have been tested against earlier atrocities — and whose sources inside Iran took on personal risk to make the record exist.
Figures current as of the preprint’s documentation cut-off on February 4, 2026. Verification work by all four organisations is ongoing.
We preserve the voices others want silenced and publish what fear tries to bury.
Iran Watch is the civic-record arm of IRSA — the Iranian Student Association at UCF. We organize awareness events, archive verified evidence, and publish first-hand testimony from witnesses inside Iran, so that what the regime denies, the world is forced to read.
The numbers most newsrooms will not print.
Each figure below is independently verified, attributable, and dated. Behind every digit is a person whose name we are still working to record.
Executions documented in a single month
February 2026 · across 31 provinces, 65 cities · Iran HRM
Execution every two hours
Final days of January 2026 · 72 executions in 144 hours
The deadliest year in decades
Highest known executions since 2000 · UN OHCHR
Want to help carry this?
Translation from Persian. Verification leads. A name we have missed. A photograph a family wants added to the record. Anything you can lend, we’ll write back from a real address.