{"id":21008,"date":"2026-06-28T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=21008"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:48:26","slug":"media-remarkable-tournament-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/06\/28\/media-remarkable-tournament-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: &#8220;Remarkable tournament run&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does this mean when they lost every game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"589\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-407.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-407.png 589w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-407-526x600.png 526w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-407-237x270.png 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above is about the media&#8217;s bizarre language &#8211; not the Iranian team. Glad they were able to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then this &#8211; both &#8220;remarkable&#8221; and &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"582\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-409.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-409.png 582w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-409-306x270.png 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While their playing was &#8220;heart breaking&#8221;, what was this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Death Toll Estimates Regarding Protesters and Others In Iran<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Iranian government: Acknowledged 3,117 deaths (including some security forces). Widely viewed as a significant undercount. amnesty.org<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HRANA (U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, with verification processes and named lists): By February 2026, documented ~7,007 verified deaths (including ~6,488 protesters, minors, and others), with thousands more under review. This is one of the more methodical tallies from activist networks inside Iran. en.wikipedia.org<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UN experts\/Special Rapporteur: Noted the official figure vs. &#8220;tens of thousands&#8221; from human rights groups; true scale hard to determine due to blackouts, reprisals against families, and restricted access. Suggested it could reach 5,000\u201320,000+ based on medical sources. amnesty.org<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Higher estimates (30,000\u201340,000+): Circulated by Iran International (reported ~36,500 based on claimed leaked documents\/medical sources), opposition figures (e.g., linked to Maryam Rajavi or Reza Pahlavi), some doctors&#8217; networks, and amplified by Western politicians like Donald Trump. These emerged quickly post-crackdown but lack transparent methodology, named lists, or independent corroboration. Critics (including analyses in Zeteo and others) describe them as unverified, tied to regime-change narratives, and potentially inflated for political impact. zeteo.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amnesty International and others documented mass unlawful killings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Iranian regime&#8217;s crackdown was brutal and killed thousands of its own people\u2014likely in the mid-to-high thousands based on the best-documented estimates\u2014qualifying as one of the deadliest recent suppressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably not the way most of us would use the word &#8220;remarkable&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21020,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions\/21020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}