Iranian hospitals overwhelmed with injuries as protests rage across Islamic Republic

Staff astatine hospitals successful Iran said their facilities person go overwhelmed with injuries — including of radical suffering from gunshot wounds — arsenic anti-government protests are raging crossed the Islamic Republic, a study said. 

A doc from Tehran’s Farabi Hospital, which is the city’s main oculus specializer center, told the BBC precocious Friday that the installation entered situation mode, with exigency services slammed and non-urgent admissions suspended. 

A medic from a infirmary successful the metropolis of Shiraz besides told the web that ample numbers of injured radical were being brought successful contempt the infirmary not having capable surgeons to dainty them. He added that galore of those wounded had gunshot injuries to the caput and eyes, according to the BBC. 

As of Saturday, the decease toll successful the protests has grown to astatine slightest 72 radical killed and implicit 2,300 others detained, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.

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A conveyance burns during protests successful Tehran, Iran, connected Jan. 8, 2026.  (Khosh Iran/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

The protests began precocious past period with shopkeepers and bazaar merchants demonstrating against accelerating ostentation and the illness of the rial, which mislaid astir fractional its worth against the dollar past year. Inflation topped 40% successful December. The unrest soon dispersed to universities and provincial cities, with young men clashing with information forces. 

At a property league successful Washington, D.C., connected Friday, President Donald Trump said Iran was facing mounting pressure.  

"Iran’s successful large trouble," Trump said. "It looks to maine that the radical are taking implicit definite cities that cipher thought were truly imaginable conscionable a fewer weeks ago. We’re watching the concern precise carefully."

Trump warned that the United States would respond forcefully if the regime resorts to wide violence. "We’ll beryllium hitting them precise hard wherever it hurts. And that doesn’t mean boots connected the ground, but it means hitting them very, precise hard wherever it hurts." 

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Protesters stitchery arsenic vehicles burn, amid evolving anti-government unrest, successful Tehran, Iran, successful this surface drawback obtained from a societal media video released connected Jan. 9, 2026.  (Social Media/via Reuters)

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has signaled a coming clampdown, contempt U.S. warnings, according to The Associated Press. 

Tehran escalated its threats Saturday, with the Iran’s lawyer general, Mohammad Movahedi Azad, informing that anyone taking portion successful protests volition beryllium considered an "enemy of God," a death-penalty charge. The connection carried by Iranian authorities tv said adjacent those who "helped rioters" would look the charge.

"Prosecutors indispensable cautiously and without delay, by issuing indictments, hole the grounds for the proceedings and decisive confrontation with those who, by betraying the federation and creating insecurity, question overseas domination implicit the country," the connection read. "Proceedings indispensable beryllium conducted without leniency, compassion oregon indulgence." 

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered enactment for the protesters.

Iranians stitchery portion blocking a thoroughfare during a protestation successful Kermanshah, Iran connected Jan. 8, 2026.  (Kamran/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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"The United States supports the brave radical of Iran," Rubio wrote Saturday connected X. 

Fox News’ Efrat Lachter and The Associated Press contributed to this report.