Listen, I don't doubt that the Iranian state killed some people. I am not a fool. However, I don't buy that they slaughtered 10s of thousands of peaceful protestors in the street as the enemies of Iran claim. I am assuming that this is what the original commenter was referencing as that is the most commonly propagated story.

I consider it propaganda because the protests in Iran were obviously a foreign instigated attempt at regime change which failed. The actions of the Iranian state, including the internet blackout (which was an attempt disrupt communication between foreign agitators and their agents) and violence, are in some part why it failed. The current war in Iran is a result of that failure. This is not to say that the Iranian people have no reason to despise their state or resist it violently. I only claim that this sentiment was heavily exploited for the purpose of regime change, and had it succeded the greatest threat to the genocidal state of Israel would have been eliminated.

In that context any reporting from western sources should be treated with the utmost scrutiny or, given their record of manufacturing consent for violence, utter distrust. The sources given for their claims are completely unreliable and I encourage to search for any hard evidence.