00:00Police arrest the boy.
00:03From her office in London, Farnoosh Faraji meticulously goes through all the amateur footage
00:08she's been sent from Iran, documenting the regime's repression.
00:12And shot him.
00:14It's horrible because you can't believe it.
00:18I think, oh no, no, it's not true because maybe it's with AI.
00:26Despite a nationwide communications blackout by authorities, some Iranians managed to send
00:32videos or witness accounts, which were broadcast by Iran International after verification.
00:38Based on classified documents and testimonies, the channel has reported that at least 36,500
00:44people were killed on the 8th and 9th of January, whereas NGOs could only confirm 5,848 deaths.
00:52It's to be the voice of truth, to voice of the people of Iran, to show the truth to the
01:00world, what is exactly the culture of Iran, what does Iranian look like.
01:05Iran International has a viewership of 40 million people every week and has become the most watched
01:11channel in Iran thanks to access via satellites.
01:14Regime has increased rates of households in a bid to clamp down on the reach of the channel.
01:18In 2022, Tehran declared Iran International a terrorist organisation.
01:24Its journalists often receive death threats.
01:27One reporter was stabbed near his home in London in 2024.
01:30The threats against the channel, they've grown exponentially since we began.
01:36We've never been free of them and we've always been a target.
01:41The channel's critics accuse it of being bankrolled by Saudi Arabia.
01:45It insists that it's independent and that its financial backing comes from a British Saudi national.
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