According to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA), more than 500 protesters, including 69 children, have so far been killed during the protests that have rocked Iran for over 3 months.
Two people have been executed and after what Amnesty International describes as "mock trials", at least 26 people await the same fate.
It is not the first time that the people rise up against the regime, in both 2017 and 2018 nationwide protests took place.
The difference this time is that people from several walks of life participate in the demonstrations – often with women as leaders.
Actors and football stars support the protesters
Several prominent Iranians have also become involved, leading to their arrest or fleeing the country, the BBC reports.
Actor Hamid Farrokhnezhad recently moved to the United States and he now describes Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as a dictator in the style of Stalin and Mussolini.
Actress Taraneh Alidoosti is in turn imprisoned in the notorious Evin prison after supporting the protests.
Even football stars like Ali Karimi and Ali Daei support the protesters.
"Both sides have been radicalized"
At the same time, violence is increasing, both from the regime and the protesters.
The BBC also reports that the regime is using the bodies of deceased protesters to bargain, and thus silence, the protestors' families.
There are also reports of brutal torture.
- Both sides have been radicalised.
Iran cannot go back to the time before Mahsa Amini (the 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in the custody of the Iranian morality police, which started the protests, ed.), actress Pegah Ahangarani told the BBC.