Dissidents cite mass killings, seek regime expulsion

Iranian dissidents are circulating claims of a brutal crackdown by the Islamic regime in early January, alleging that security forces killed more than 40,000 anti-regime protesters over a couple of days. A new, specific allegation details an incident in the city of Sabzevar, where repressive forces are said to have opened fire on a mother and her three sons simultaneously, burying all four in a single grave. The dissidents are using these claims to call on European countries to expel the Iranian regime, arguing the full dimensions of the alleged crimes have not been revealed.