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
Aref Jafarzadeh, 34, was among fellow Arsenal supporters celebrating the club’s title victory. He was shot dead in Rasht during anti-government protests on January 8, 2026, wearing an Arsenal jersey. His killing drew widespread attention among Arsenal supporters in England.
US President Donald Trump says the US “may have to hit Iran even harder, but maybe not,” adding that Washington would wait to see whether a deal is reached with Tehran.
🔴 President Donald Trump says the US is not doing sanctions relief until a deal with Iran is reached 🔴 President Donald Trump says the US is not in a hurry to reach a deal 🔴 President Donald Trump says the US will wait for Iran’s response for a few days
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Washington was dealing with “reasonable people” in negotiations with Iran but insisted there would be no sanctions relief until an agreement is reached.
Iranian Foreign Ministry: We are studying an American response that reached us from the Pakistani mediator
Iran's President Pezeshkian: Forcing Iran to surrender through coercion is nothing but an illusion.
محمدرضا داوری مشاور سابق احمدینژاد که البته فردی معتبر نیست، قبلا ادعا کرده بود احمدینژاد خود را یلتسین ایران میداند. این گزارش نیویورک تایمز به نوعی، عملا پایان زندگی سیاسی احمدینژاد در اکوسیستم جمهوری اسلامی است.
A New York Times report effectively ends Ahmadinejad's political life inside the Islamic Republic's ecosystem.
Iran's Ministry of Industry has authorized petrochemical and polymer raw material imports through kulbari and malavani border trade channels, which human rights groups link to dozens of porter deaths each year along Iran's borders. More:
ترامپ: ما برمیگردیم و کار را تمام میکنیم یا آنها توافق را امضا میکنند. لحنش ایراد ندارد. متنی که ارائه کرده همین است. یا تسلیم یا تمام.
On Trump's ultimatum to Tehran — 'we come back and finish the job, or they sign the deal. Either surrender, or end.'
Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said in an audio recording Wednesday that the U.S. is pursuing military action against Iran despite the ceasefire, and that Iranian forces have used the truce period to rebuild military capabilities. More:
British couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman, imprisoned in Evin Prison, have gone on hunger strike to protest their detention conditions and the suspension of phone contact with their family. Their son has warned that their lives are at risk. Read more in HRANA’s report:
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that elements of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) from the USS Tripoli (LHA 7) amphibious ready group (ARG) conducted a boarding operation of the Iranian-flagged motor tanker (M/T) Celestial Sea in the Gulf of Oman in support
The authorities executed at least one individual, Mohammad Reza Shihaki, who was a child under the age of 18 at the time of the alleged crime; scores of others remained on death row. 11/11 Full report:
The use of the death penalty further disproportionately impacted Iran’s oppressed minorities, particularly those belonging to the Kurdish, Baluchi, and Afghan communities. 10/11
If this report is true, it’s one of the most bizarre and morally incoherent Iran strategies imaginable. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spent years threatening Israel, denying the Holocaust, advancing Iran’s nuclear program, and empowering the very regime machinery that brutalized the
پنج: همهی اینها نشان میدهد اسرائیل و آمریکا در این لحظه ناچارند درک خود از منافع مشترک در ایران را بازتعریف کنند. این به معنای حذف گزینهی ازسرگیری جنگ نیست؛ بلکه بخشی از پیچیدگی وضعیت آتشبس را نشان میدهد. در این وضعیت، نه جنگ به پیروزی سیاسی کامل انجامیده، نه جمهوری اسلامی
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.