The opposition-affiliated Iranian news site Iran International reported Sunday that over 36,000 people were killed by the regime at the height of protests earlier this month, numbers similar to those also reported by Time magazine.

The Iranian opposition outlet said its estimate for the death toll in the brutal repression of January 8-9 is based on extensive data it compiled from “classified documents, field reports, and accounts from medical staff, witnesses, and victims’ families.”

It said the numbers make the killings the “bloodiest massacre of civilians during street protests, over a two-day period, in history.”

Most of the killings were done by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its allied Basij militia, though proxies brought in from Iraq and Syria were also used, according to the report.

Sources in the country’s interior ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the outlet that figures from provincial security councils, submitted January 20, put the toll at over 30,000.

Iran International also said it saw a report presented on January 21 to the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee that put the number of dead at over 27,500.

In addition, two sources from the Supreme National Security Council told the outlet that the IRGC last week compiled two reports, one that put the number at over 33,000, and another at over 36,500.

Beyond the mass killings at protests, the outlet said it received evidence, including photos, that some people were executed by security........

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