Iran's government has released official death toll figures matching those reported by human rights groups like HRANA.

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False. Iranian authorities have not published an official death toll for protesters, though they acknowledged three security personnel deaths early in the protests (later updated). This silence is strategic: releasing accurate numbers would confirm the scale of the crackdown and undermine the regime's claim that protests are small, foreign-backed riots. The information vacuum lets Tehran avoid accountability while forcing human rights groups to do the dangerous work of verification—which the regime can then dismiss as biased or unverifiable. Controlling casualty data is a key tool of authoritarian power.

Iran's government has released official death toll figures matching those reported by human rights groups like HRANA.

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