Verified videos emerging from Iran show bodies piled up in a hospital, snipers stationed on buildings and CCTV cameras being destroyed, following the unprecedented crackdown on protests earlier this month. They are thought to be the deadliest nights for protesters so far and these newly verified videos show how Iran's security forces have been violently cracking down on protesters. Multiple clips analysed by BBC Verify and BBC Persian show bodies piled up inside a mortuary at Tehranpars hospital in east Tehran. Footage we verified shows one person in the capital climbing up a post and hitting a surveillance camera several times in an attempt to disable it. In the north-eastern city of Mashhad verified video shows two men dressed in black on a rooftop of a building in daylight.

Source: The Star January 27, 2026 09:34 UTC