Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on protests | First Thing

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An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital, as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.

What did Trump say? Iranian Patriots, keep protesting - take over your institutions!!! ... help is on its way," he posted on Truth Social. Trump later told CBS News: When they start killing thousands of people - and now you're telling me about hanging. We'll see how that's going to work out for them."

What do we know about the crackdown? More than 2,000 people have been killed in the protests - more than 90% of whom were demonstrators - and more than 16,700 people have been arrested, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said.