[alexmonami]

There are other sources, like this: https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-...

[vogre]

Which also refer to unnamed sources and "U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency"(read CIA)

[squidbeak]

Why lie about this when the first paragraph is explicit about its source?

> As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME