There are other sources, like this:
https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-...
> As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME
And their names are never called.
Remember "bomb serbs to heel" or "sinister world of saddam"
Meanwhile, the US is rearranging its forces in the middle east. What a coincidence.