Iran Regime Kills Up to 40,000 in January Massacre of Protesters

Iranian security forces are estimated to have killed 35,000–40,000 of their own citizens following protests that erupted on December 28, with survivors testifying to the brutal scale of the regime's violence. The Islamic Republic of Iran remains a central prophetic actor in end-times Scripture, widely identified with the northern and eastern powers that will converge against Israel in the last days. Daniel 8 and Ezekiel 38 both point to a Persian-rooted power rising in opposition to God's purposes, and the accelerating brutality and instability of the Iranian regime signals the fragility of the current world order preceding those events.