Antiwar author and journalist Scott Horton has challenged what he described as a widely circulated and politically motivated claim that the Iranian government massacred 40,000 of its own people during protests in January, arguing that a death toll of that scale would be impossible to conceal and that the physical evidence required to support such a figure simply does not exist.
Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored alongside former United States National Security Adviser John Bolton, Spectator journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti, and former British Army Colonel Bob Stewart, Horton offered a detailed challenge to what he called a piece of propaganda designed to build public support for military action against Iran.
In his words, Scott Horton said, “40,000 — that’s like the Battle of Gettysburg. The worst massacre of the Holocaust was at Babi Yar in September of 1941, where the German Nazis corralled 30,000 Jews and massacred them and dumped them in a ravine. 30,000 of them. We’re to believe that the Ayatollah pulled off something like that — maybe 10,000 more than that — in January without carpet bombing his own city, without committing some kind of Dresden, without leaving tens of thousands of body bags everywhere,” he said, arguing that the claim fails even the most basic test of physical plausibility.
Horton further noted that the visual evidence presented to support the massacre narrative consisted of approximately twelve body bags, which he described as entirely inconsistent with a death toll in the tens of thousands. He argued that the figure had been amplified and repeated by what he called the war party in government and media circles in order to maintain public support for military action by reinforcing the narrative that the Iranian regime had no genuine popular support and was clinging to power solely through mass violence…See More
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