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
🔴 BREAKING: Saudi-led coalition spokesperson Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki denies Houthi claims of shooting down a Saudi Apache helicopter, warning the Iran-backed militia that despite “claiming to have shot it down, it will enter the battlefield soon. Remember what it looks like,
US Vice President JD Vance said Washington had “in some ways” won decisively against Iran, but the conflict could not be considered over until Tehran makes a firm commitment not to rebuild its nuclear program. Speaking at a CBS News town hall aired Saturday, Vance defended the
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Faleh al-Zaydi in Baghdad on Saturday for talks focused on efforts to halt the Iran-US war and prevent further regional conflict. According to a statement from the Iraqi prime minister’s office, the two sides
The Yemeni Armed Forces carry out strikes targeting Houthi militia military positions, equipment, and personnel as part of ongoing “Dawn of Yemen” operations.
Coalition: Two Ballistic Missiles Launched by Terrorist Houthi Militia toward Khamis Mushait Intercepted and Destroyed. #SPAGOV
هگست: ج.ا. یا توافق می‌کند، یا نابود می‌شود. او تاکید کرد که در صورت عدم توافق، ج.ا. با آن نوع ویرانی روبه‌رو می‌شود که آمریکا قادر به ایجاد آن است. دقیق‌تر از این آدرس بده؟
Scenes from the Air Force's interception operations against cruise missiles and UAVs, and its strikes to destroy ballistic missile launchers belonging to the terrorist Houthi militia. #SPAGOV
نتانیاهو: متعهد به سرنگونی جمهوری اسلامی هستم و می‌دانم چگونه این کار را انجام دهم. کار را به فرزندان موسی بسپارید، درست انجام می‌شود.
Iranian state TV has aired a report tonight featuring some “self-sacrificing” women receiving military trainings. When asked by the reporter, one of the women responds that the first person they want to shoot at is “definitely Trump”.
فرزین ندیمی، پژوهشگر ارشد امور دفاعی و امنیتی، در #تیتراول گفت حملات حوثی‌ها به عربستان سعودی و تحرکات این گروه در باب‌المندب، در هماهنگی با اقدامات جمهوری اسلامی در تنگه هرمز انجام می‌شود. به گفته او، هدف این راهبرد مشترک، ایجاد اختلال در صادرات نفت و افزایش فشار بر متحدان منطقه
دریا صفایی، نماینده ایرانی‌تبار پارلمان بلژیک با اشاره به میزبانی رسمی تئو فرانکن، وزیر دفاع بلژیک، از شاهزاده رضا پهلوی و سخنرانی او در آکادمی سلطنتی نظامی این کشور در #تیتراول گفت فضای سیاسی اروپا در قبال جمهوری اسلامی در حال تغییر است و به‌تدریج زمینه‌های دفاعی، نظامی و
معاون نخست‌وزیر ایتالیا: «از مقام‌های جمهوری اسلامی ایران می‌خواهم اجرای حکم اعدام نجمه را متوقف کنند و تضمین دهند که حقوق بنیادین همه زنان محترم شمرده می‌شود» #نجمه_امینی
معاون نخست‌وزیر ایتالیا: «از مقام‌های جمهوری اسلامی ایران می‌خواهم اجرای حکم اعدام نجمه را متوقف کنند و تضمین دهند که حقوق بنیادین همه زنان محترم شمرده می‌شود» #نجمه_امینی
آذر یاهو طرقبه، زندانی سیاسی محبوس در زندان وکیل آباد مشهد، با پایان حبس، از زندان آزاد شد. آذر را اطلاعات سپاه ۱۴ اسفند بازداشت کرد و به خاطر استفاده از استیکر قلب برای ترامپ و نتانیاهو در اینستاگرام و ابراز خوشحالی از کشته‌شدن علی خامنه‌ای به ۳ سال زندان محکوم شد که یک سال آن
وضعیت همین‌قدر کثافت شده که اگر درباره فعالیت‌های جمهوری اسلامی بنویسی، راست و چپ بهت فحش می‌دهند چون تو را طرف خودشان نمی‌بینند. چپ‌ها، راست‌ها، اساتید، کنشگران، رسانه‌ها، لعنتی‌ها؛ بفهمید. این جنگ دو طرف بیشتر ندارد: مردم و جمهوری اسلامی! #کوه_یخ
GCC, European Parliament leaders call for stronger strategic partnership, condemn Iranian attacks
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.