Iranian student killed during protests was shot in head ‘from close range’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/11/iranian-student-rubina-aminian-killed-during-protests-shot-in-head-from-close-range

39 Comments

  1. From Iranian social media, probably: “US mother killed during protests was shot in head ‘from close range’”

  2. Maximum_Degree_1152 on

    Hard to tell Iran and US apart right now…

    Edit: not meaning to trivialize the situation in Iran right now. Merely pointing out that government oppression and violence against citizens is unacceptable anywhere. I have massive respect for protesters in both countries who put their lives at risk fighting oppression.

  3. Reasonable-Rain-7474 on

    Did you think the mullahs would just go away? The slaughter will be immediate unless the army supports the people.

  4. The headline is missing a key word . The article notes she was shot in the head from close range FROM BEHIND. That’s murder. No ambiguity at all

  5. epicredditdude1 on

    This is sadly far from a unique event to her. There are probably thousands dead at this point.

  6. The people of Iran are on the brink of potentially overthrowing a brutal Islamist regime that’s oppressed them for over four decades, and people here are pivoting to argue about ICE and the U.S. instead. Is this the latest marching order from the enlightened left on Reddit? What a shitshow.

  7. Weird how the murderous Iranian regime and ICE and their backers keep having more and more in common…

  8. NonEuclideanSyntax on

    Of course. The forces of Oppression are playing for keeps. Let’s hope the advocates of Freedom are as well.

  9. coffee_collection on

    How has this not made national TV news ?
    Outside of reddit, ive heard absolutely nothing on TV about this :/

  10. Well, religious nutcases in Iran murdering girls again … except this time they do not even need to use the “hair” excuse.

    F*ck them.

  11. And pro-palestinians are actively supporting this regime and posting propaganda for it on social media after 2 years of pretending to give a fuck about “human rights”.

  12. Shocker terrorist islamic regime is now killing its people. Wow who coulda seen this coming, oh just every one. Nice.

  13. US Citizens in America are now being murdered too, as in shot in the head ‘from close range’ by armed militia with consent from the government.