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The demise toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests final month has reached no less than 7,002 individuals killed with many extra nonetheless feared useless, activists stated on Thursday (February 12, 2026).
The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists Information Company, which supplied the most recent figures, has been correct in counting deaths throughout earlier rounds of unrest in Iran and depends on a community of activists in Iran to confirm deaths. The gradual rise within the demise toll has come because the company slowly is ready to crosscheck data as communication stays troublesome with these within the Islamic Republic.
Iran’s authorities supplied its solely demise toll on January 21, saying 3,117 individuals had been killed. Iran’s theocracy up to now has undercounted or not reported fatalities from previous unrest.
The Related Press has been unable to independently assess the demise toll, given authorities have disrupted web entry and worldwide calls in Iran.
The rise within the demise toll comes as Iran tries to barter with the USA over its nuclear programme.
Senior Iranian safety official Ali Larijani met on Wednesday (February 11, 2026) in Qatar with Overseas Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. Qatar hosts a serious U.S. navy set up that Iran attacked in June, after the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear websites throughout the 12-day Iran-Israel battle in June. Mr. Larijani additionally met with officers of the Palestinian Hamas militant group, and in Oman with Tehran-backed Houthi rebels from Yemen on Tuesday (February 10, 2026).
Mr. Larijani informed Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite tv for pc information community that Iran didn’t obtain any particular proposal from the U.S. in Oman, however acknowledged that there was an “trade of messages”.
Qatar has been a key negotiator up to now with Iran, with which it shares a large offshore pure gasoline subject within the Persian Gulf. Its state-run Qatar Information Company reported that ruling emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump about “the present state of affairs within the area and worldwide efforts aimed toward de-escalation and strengthening regional safety and peace”, with out elaborating.
The U.S. has moved the plane provider USS Abraham Lincoln, ships and warplanes to the Center East to strain Iran into an settlement and have the firepower essential to strike the Islamic Republic ought to Mr. Trump select to take action.
Already, U.S. forces have shot down a drone they stated acquired too near the Lincoln and got here to the help of a U.S.-flagged ship that Iranian forces tried to cease within the Strait of Hormuz, the slender mouth of the Persian Gulf.
Mr. Trump informed the information web site Axios that he was contemplating sending a second provider to the area. “We now have an armada that’s heading there and one other one is likely to be going,” he stated.
Revealed – February 12, 2026 09:25 am IST