{"id":44819,"date":"2026-01-16T06:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mortuary-videos-show-how-deadly-iran-crackdown-has-become\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:26:40","slug":"mortuary-videos-show-how-deadly-iran-crackdown-has-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mortuary-videos-show-how-deadly-iran-crackdown-has-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortuary videos show how deadly Iran crackdown has become"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Anti-government protests have swept through major cities and towns across Iran, and the authorities are responding with a harsh crackdown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">BBC Verify has been examining disturbing footage from a mortuary in Tehran, showing scores of bodies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">These images could hold crucial clues about what&#8217;s really happening inside Iran. Merlyn Thomas reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"produced-by-alex-dackevych.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Produced by Alex Dackevych.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"verification-by-richard-irvine-brown,-shayan-sardarizadeh,-sherie-ryder-and-benedict-garman.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Verification by Richard Irvine-Brown, Shayan Sardarizadeh, Sherie Ryder and Benedict Garman.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"graphics-by-mark-edwards.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Graphics by Mark Edwards.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c2e134xz2rjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-government protests have swept through major cities and towns across Iran, and the authorities are responding with a harsh crackdown. BBC Verify has been examining disturbing footage from a mortuary in Tehran, showing scores of bodies. These images could hold crucial clues about what&#8217;s really happening inside Iran. Merlyn Thomas reports. Produced by Alex Dackevych. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1973,980,4228,13325,1116,1461],"class_list":["post-44819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-crackdown","tag-deadly","tag-iran","tag-mortuary","tag-show","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44821,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44819\/revisions\/44821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}