Iran's Protests Have Been Completely Squashed, Government Says

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Iran’s Protests Have Been Completely Squashed, Government Says
After a crackdown that killed thousands, Iran’s prosecutor general said on Wednesday that “the sedition is over now,” vowing to punish those responsible for the protests.
By Pranav Baskar
Jan. 21, 2026, 4:09 p.m. ET

The Iranian government said on Wednesday that it had successfully suppressed anti-government protests that had roiled the country for weeks, after a crackdown that killed thousands.

“The sedition is over now,” said Mohammad Movahedi, Iran’s prosecutor general, according to the judiciary’s Mizan News agency. “And we must be grateful, as always, to the people who extinguished this sedition by being in the field in a timely manner.”

The remarks were among a series of public moves by the Iranian government to portray the unrest in the country — believed at one point to be a significant threat to the regime — as completely subdued.

Among them, Iranian state TV released the first official death toll from the protests on Wednesday, saying that more than 3,000 people had been killed in the demonstrations. That figure was lower than the most recent toll of 4,519 deaths that was reported by the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, or HRANA, on Tuesday.

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