Iran doctors exhausted as protesters wounded, killed by regime pile up: ‘Rivers of blood’
Doctors in Iran are collapsing from exhaustion as the bloodthirsty Iranian regime massacres anti-government protesters by the thousands.
Medics throughout the country, speaking to the outside world through Starlink internet connections, said Iran’s health care system is on the verge of collapse amid Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s deadly crackdown on the demonstrations, the Telegraph reported.
The number of wounded and dead bodies streaming into the country’s blood-soaked hospitals has doctors keeling over after working for days without rest.
“Our staff are exhausted. I have not slept for days. Some of my colleagues have collapsed,” the medic warned. Thousands have died in Iran after protests erupted more than two weeks ago. MEK/The Media Express/SIPA/Shutterstock
A pathologist examines a body at the Tehran Province Forensic Diagnostic and Laboratory Centre in Kahrizak, as grieving relatives search for their loved ones. UGC/AFP via Getty Images
Some keep going because stopping means more people will die and be sent to the overflowing morgues, the medics said.
“Dead bodies and injured people — men, women and children — are arriving in trucks, ambulances and private cars,” said one doctor near Tehran. “We cannot help everyone. Many died because we could not even visit them.
“People are bringing bloodied loved ones on their shoulders. Our staff are exhausted. I have not slept for days. Some of my colleagues have collapsed,” the medic warned.
“We have shortages of everything. There are rivers of blood in hospitals here.”
When the unidentified doctor was asked if those wounded and dying were protesters, he said, “They are all human beings. That’s all I can tell you.”
“Dead bodies and injured people – men, women and children – are arriving in trucks, ambulances and private cars,” one doctor near Tehran said.
People attend the funeral of the security force members who were killed in the protests that erupted over the collapse of the economy in Tehran, Iran, January 14, 2026 via REUTERS
The death toll has reportedly surged into the thousands.
Among those confirmed dead is 17-year-old local soccer star Rebin Moradi.
Moradi, a Kurdish student and member of the Tehran Youth Premier Football League, was reportedly shot dead by Iranian government forces last week, officials confirmed to his family.
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The regime has yet to return his body to his grieving family, according to human rights organization Hengaw.
Disturbing video obtained by the Telegraph shows bullet-riddled bodies piled up in overcrowded hospitals as doctors desperately perform CPR on patients in the hallways because every room is full.
People gather during a protest on January 8, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. Getty Images
The hospitals are reportedly not even safe from the government forces after they stormed a hospital in Ilam in western Iran last week to arrest injured protesters and remove corpses to hide evidence of mass killings, according to the outlet.
Tensions have ramped up between Washington and Tehran, with President Trump suggesting that direct US intervention may soon be deployed after he cut off negotiations with the Islamic Republic on Tuesday over Iran’s killing of protesters.
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More than 2,000 Iranians have been killed amid the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
Other sources estimate that as many as 12,000 to 20,000 people have been killed, CBS News reported.
Trump has threatened “very strong action” against the Iranian regime if anti-government protesters are hanged.
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