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Months after the regime crackdown, Iranians search for missing protesters

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 1268 words · By Bahar MAKOOI
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Months after the regime crackdown, Iranians search for missing protesters The deadly crackdown on the December 2025-January 2026 anti-regime protests saw many Iranians killed, tracked or detained.

Claims checked 19
Techniques found 3
Topics 3

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What happened

Months after the regime crackdown, Iranians search for missing protesters The deadly crackdown on the December 2025-January 2026 anti-regime protests saw many Iranians killed, tracked or detained.

Why it matters

The US-Israel war on Iran has intensified the repression, but it has not stopped families from trying to trace their missing loved ones or from seeking justice for people who have disappeared into prisons and juvenile correction centres across the country.

Common ground

His family and friends are searching everywhere for him.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Pity: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 3 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 95% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Name Calling / Labeling 80% confidence
Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
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Appeal to Pity 85% confidence
Evoking sympathy to win support rather than using logical arguments.
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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 19 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The NGO reported that at least 216 children had been killed during the protests.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: “Abbas Akbari Feyzabadi, who was hanged on May 25.”
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Claim 3: “On March 13, the Revolutionary Guards warned that any new mobilisation against the government would result in a response “more severe” than that of January.”
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Claim 4: “Special units opened fire with military-grade weapons on protesters in the heart of the Iranian capital. Several thousand people were killed.”
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Wikipedia mentions 'widespread massacres of civilians' and other web sources report 'thousands of protesters' killed in the crackdown, supporting the claim of high casualties and military violence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Since the beginning of the 2025–26 Iranian protests, the Iranian government has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran_massacres
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 1, 2026 ... Trump dose not have moral high ground in his attack on Iran because he first has to stop killing protesters in the states. 21w · 3 likes.
https://www.facebook.com/newshour/posts/thousands-of-protest…
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web search NEUTRAL — In order to predict violence on protesters in Iran, it is necessary to measure the level of representativeness in the military organization, which I ...
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstreams/244be08b-2b22-4d27-98d6-…
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Claim 5: “the US and Israel launched the Iran war on February 28”
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Confirmed by Wikipedia and multiple independent news sources (The Hindu, Al Jazeera, TASS) that the US and Israel launched a war against Iran on February 28, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran and Israel have not maintained a formal diplomatic relationship with each other since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict has grown to large…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_relations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Iran–Israel conflict is a long-standing geopolitical and military confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel, involving proxy hostilities since 1985 and direct clas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed Iranian officials and supreme leader A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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Claim 6: “Diana Taherabadi, a 16-year-old high school student, who was arrested at her home in late January and is being held at the Kachoui Juvenile Rehabilitation and Correctional Centre.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 7: “Morteza Ebrahimi, 35, has been missing since January 8”
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One specific web search result explicitly mentions Morteza Ebrahimi, 35, missing since January 8. Other results mention a different 'Morteza' (a 16-year-old), but only one source confirms the specific individual and age mentioned in the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following lists events that happened during 1919 in Qajar era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_in_Iran
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following lists events that happened during 1936 in Pahlavi Iran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_in_Iran
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ferdowsi Samen Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Mashhad, Iran who compete in League 2 .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi_Samen_F.C.
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Claim 8: “That night, as internet access was cut across the country, the authorities unleashed hell on the streets of some Tehran neighbourhoods.”
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Wikipedia specifically confirms that on January 8, 2026, Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout, particularly affecting Tehran, during the protests.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025–2026 Iranian protests were a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 8 January 2026, the twelfth day of the 2025–2026 protests in Iran, Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout. Reports from Iran described widespread telephone and internet blackouts in Tehra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Internet_blackout_in_Iran
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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Claim 9: “Nima Araban, 17, who was arrested during the January protests in Naein, in Isfahan province. He has been detained for more than four months in the Isfahan Juvenile Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre.”
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Claim 10: “The deadly crackdown on the December 2025-January 2026 anti-regime protests saw many Iranians killed, tracked or detained.”
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Wikipedia and Amnesty International both confirm the 2025-2026 Iranian protests began on December 28, 2025, and involved a deadly crackdown with widespread repression.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On June 22, 2025, the United States Air Force and Navy attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran as part of the Twelve-Day War, under the code name Operation Midnight Hammer. The Fordow Uranium Enrich…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_strikes_on_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025–2026 Iranian protests were a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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Claim 11: “the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran states that hundreds of children have been arbitrarily detained”
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Claim 12: “The Iranian judiciary had sentenced them to death for “participating in operational activities against national security” and “collaborating with hostile governments”.”
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No evidence was provided or found in the search results regarding the specific sentencing details for Mohammadinia and Maleki.
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Claim 13: “In a comprehensive report published in late February, the Virginia-based NGO, Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI), recorded 6,488 confirmed and verified deaths of protesters.”
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The specific figure of 6,488 confirmed deaths by the Virginia-based NGO HRAI is mentioned in web search results, and Wikipedia confirms HRAI is indeed a Virginia-based NGO.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — NGO Monitor is a right-wing organization based in Jerusalem that reports on international NGO (non-governmental organisation) activity from a pro-Israel perspective. NGO Monitor was founded in 2001 by…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO_Monitor
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistleblowers, trad…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_defender
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Human Rights Activists in Iran (or HRA, HRAI) is a non-profit non-governmental organization dedicated to the cause of human rights within Iran, the organization is based in Fairfax, Virginia, United S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Activists_in_Iran
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Claim 14: “The US-Israel war on Iran has intensified the repression”
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Multiple web search results link the war launched by the US and Israel on February 28, 2026, to the intensification of repression and mass uprisings within Iran.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 ... One month before the United States and Israel began the current war against Iran on February 28, 2026, mass uprisings within the country ...
https://www.merip.org/2026/06/rethinking-political-change-in…
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web search NEUTRAL — This conceit of Iran's essential unchangingness is premised on the idea that as long as you have clerics in charge, or you have an Islamic Republic, or a ...
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-war-on-iran-a-conv…
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web search NEUTRAL — For decades, the Iranian regime has destabilized the Middle East, targeting Americans, Israelis, Arabs, and even its own people—while backing terror proxies ...
https://www.ajc.org/tough-questions-about-the-iran-war-answe…
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Claim 15: “the US and Israel launched a full-scale war on Iran with the killing of the country’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the assassinations of top officials”
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Claim 16: “On Monday, June 1, Mehrdad Mohammadinia and Ashkan Maleki, two protesters arrested during the January rallies in Tehran, were hanged at dawn.”
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Multiple independent sources (Mizan, Maryam Rajavi's statement, and other reports) confirm that Mehrdad Mohammadinia and Ashkan Maleki were executed on Monday, June 1, 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... According to reports received , four protesters detained during the January 2026 protests in Tehran have been sentenced to death by Branch 26 of ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZDA2yMEQLk/?img_index=2
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... ... Maleki, two individuals arrested during the January 2026 protests, were executed on the morning of Monday, June 1, 2026. The executions were ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZCVqrbjgIS/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... Maryam Rajavi: These executions will not save the crisis-ridden regime but will double the resolve of the youth in their struggle Call on ...
https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/ncri-statements/statement-human-…
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Claim 17: “Iran’s Education Ministry spokesperson Ali Farhadi, who told the official ISNA news agency in early February that “thanks to the Iranian education minister’s oversight, no student remained in detention from the very first days of the unrest"”
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Claim 18: “An additional 11,744 cases remain “under review and are not included in confirmed totals"”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results regarding personality types and gaming, with no mention of HRAI or the figure 11,744.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 19, 2009 · You are currently viewing our forum as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community, you will have acces…
https://www.typologycentral.com/threads/candy-mountain.13040…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 13, 2009 · Apr 11, 2008 Messages 467 MBTI Type XNXX Enneagram 3w2 Dec 27, 2009 #18 Exodus said: Undead and Deathknights are INTJ There is nothing E about either. Both leaders almost never come out…
https://www.typologycentral.com/threads/world-of-warcraft-cl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 21, 2012 · This irks me no end, this emphasis on wanting to be unique, different, and special. I don't want that. I would like to fit in! Other people tell me I am...
https://www.typologycentral.com/threads/im-a-really-special-…
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Claim 19: “Pajman Norooz Rajabi... the 27-year-old athlete was killed by security forces on January 8 in Tonekabon”
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