EVIL Iranian leaders are making families of dead protesters pay “bullet money” to reunite them with their loved ones remains.

Relatives are told that the fee will help cover the cost of their killing.

Iran Protests Massacre, Tehran, Islamic Republic Of Iran - 13 Jan 2026Bodies are piling up after a brutal crackdown by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsCredit: Shutterstock Editorial Pro-Government Rally Held In Iran As Regime Rejects Threats Of Western InterventionIranian security forces have been accused of luring protesters into designated kill zonesCredit: Getty NINTCHDBPICT001051084982Erfan Soltani, 26, is due to be executed todayCredit: Tim Stewart

Iranian freedom fighters are becoming increasingly desperate for US military intervention and have begged Donald Trump to follow through on his threats to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s despotic regime.

It comes as Iran’s bloodthirsty regime today vowed to fast-track trials and executions of those captured during deadly protests.

The following days are considered a crunch point for the revolutionaries as the nation’s evil mullahs are due to start hanging arrested protesters today.

Trump pledged the US will take “very strong action” against Iran if it executes protesters after promising “help is on the way”.

But brave Iranians traumatised by a after 17 days of unrest were still waiting as fast-track kangaroo courts convened today.

Protesters including 26-year-old freedom fighter Erfan Soltani, 26, are due to be among the first executed today following his arrest six days ago in Fardis, west of capital Tehran.

Courts run by Iran’s Islamist mullah rulers have started doling out death sentences to young protesters accused of “crimes against God”.

And gruesome public sentences were due to begin to deter further unrest – by stringing up those convicted from cranes on the back of trucks.

Protesters pleaded with Trump to act yesterday – as his top negotiator Steve Witkoff was revealed to have met exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi in Washington.

Pahlavi wants to return to replace the mullahs with a monarchy which presides over democratic elections.

But protesters warned their momentum had stalled today and told The Sun it’s “now or never” to end 46 years of Islamist torment.

Protester Ali, a 47-year-old musician from the Ekbatan suburb of Tehran told The Sun that one out of every four people he knows had either been injured, arrested or killed in recent days.

Iran’s state sources claimed the death toll currently stands at more than 2,000, including their own security forces.

But Ali – who has witnessed carnage and is in touch with protest groups on the ground – believes the figure could top 20,000.

He begged Trump to step in with military support and revealed the regime’s Revolutionary Guards killing and feared Basij death squads are vulnerable and depleted.

But small bands of blood-soaked diehards are propping up the mullahs by opening fire on thousands of peaceful demonstrators with .50 calibre machine guns and shotguns.

Ali told The Sun: “The streets of our neighborhood are covered with shotgun shell casings.

IRAN-PROTEST-RIGHTSProtesters have been burning their oppressors’ government buildingsCredit: AFP Iran ProtestsChaos has spread from capital Tehran to the rest of the countryCredit: AP Iranians rally in Toronto against repression in IranIranians around the world have protested in solidarityCredit: Getty

“Bodies have been deliberately piled on top of each other in hospitals, especially at Sina Hospital – it’s being done deliberately to torment and terrorise relatives.

“Families are sent from place to place to look for their children or loved ones.

“When they finally find and ask for the release of the body, they are told to pay ‘bullet money” to cover the cost of the killing.

“At night streets are now empty and eerie.

“We have decided we cannot stand against the machine guns with empty hands and that foreign assistance must come.

“I have never seen such brutality in my life and never imagined I would.”

Ali spoke first hand of the reign of terror launched by the mullahs to crack down on dissent.

He said: “Every night, 100 to 200 armed motorcyclists arrive screaming “bastards” and “sons of whores,” telling people to come outside if they dare… and they kill anyone they see.

“It makes no difference whether they are women, children, the elderly, or the young.

“People are extremely angry and desperate. If they were to get hold of weapons, they would kill without hesitation.

“Security forces are short-staffed, with many having dropped out under the pretext of illness and similar excuses.

“We need help and we need it now.”

The mass killings are being carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the ruthless Basij, a volunteer militia which acts as the country’s morality police.

Protesters have reportedly been shot dead by officers with others brutally beaten and arrested.

Despite the mounting casualties, Trump urged yesterday.

(FILES) Four Iranian criminals hang limpThe Iranian regime has publicly hanged its opponents on cranesCredit: AFP U.S. President Trump returns from Detroit, at Joint Base AndrewsDonald Trump has vowed to unleash hell on IranCredit: Reuters Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran, Iran - 09 Jan 2026US forces could unleash on tyrant Khamenei in the coming daysCredit: Shutterstock Editorial

Britain must back freedom and stand with courageous rebels in Iran

THE SUN ON SUNDAY

YOU would think the attempts by thousands of freedom protesters to overthrow a brutal, murderous regime would warrant some serious support from any British government.

After all we are talking about a tyranny which has promoted terror across the globe and threatened the West with a far-reaching nuclear programme.

But, apart from Sir Keir Starmer’s mealy-mouthed joint European statement calling for “restraint”, the mass uprising against Iran’s blood-soaked supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been received by near- silence from the Labour hierarchy.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper seems to have lost her voice and the mass ranks of government MPs have hardly breathed a dicky bird.

Not a single Labour MP on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee has even so much as tweeted.

Compare that to the party’s fire and fury which blazed daily against Israel for its response to the worst antisemitic attack since the Holocaust.

Perhaps Labour fears upsetting its Muslim base?

The PM says Britain’s shared values include “common respect for freedom, democracy, liberty.’’

Yet for almost 50 years the monstrous mullahs of Iran have overseen a brutal Islamic Republic which uses lethal force against women who don’t wear head coverings.

They have obliterated the right to freedom of expression and anyone in a same-sex relationship could face the death penalty.

Donald Trump’s bold strike against the country’s nuclear programme last year dealt it a devastating political blow.

Now the crumbling economy could be the final nail in the coffin of 86-year-old Khamenei and his barbarous henchmen.

But as they see their powerbase crumbling, the regime’s leaders have arrested over 10,000 people and used military grade weapons against unarmed protesters.

It is time for the PM to show his principles count. He and his foreign secretary should throw their wholehearted support behind this uprising.

If Britain backs freedom, democracy and liberty it must stand united with the courageous rebels in Iran.

U.S. President Trump returns from Detroit, at Joint Base AndrewsU.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters, on his return from Detroit, Michigan, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., January 13, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinCredit: Reuters