Iran’s Elite Flee To Turkey For Lavish Parties As Regime Brutally Crushes Protests At Home

Some of Iran’s wealthiest residents escaped to neighboring Turkey to attend lavish parties while back home the country’s oppressive government was killing thousands as nationwide anti-regime protests intensified.

The affluent elite, largely untouched by the economic hardship that originally ignited the unrest, relocated to Van, a Turkish province about 60 miles from Iran’s border. Reporters for The Telegraph said they saw “elite Iranians gathering” at private parties.

“These people benefit from the regime. They left Iran for now, because they were worried about staying there. Here, they can feel safe,” one Iranian attendee told the outlet.

“They have made a lot of money from their businesses in Iran, and then they come here to spend it,” he added.

Across the mountains separating Turkey from Iran, tens of thousands of demonstrators continue pressing forward with weeks-long protests against the Islamic Republic.

Disturbing footage emerging from Iran has shown rows of bodies laid out outside multiple morgues, with the exact number of victims unclear.

Survivors described scenes in which members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime’s central military force, were “spraying everyone with gunfire” and “calmly trying to aim for people’s heads.”

Activist groups estimate that 3,100 people have been slaughtered since the protests erupted on Dec. 28.

President Trump had initially vowed to intervene if the regime carried out executions of protesters, but later pulled back after officials in Tehran reportedly halted plans for mass hangings.

Despite that pause, Iran’s judiciary has warned that those accused of Mohareb — an Islamic legal charge meaning waging war against God — could still be executed. Many of the roughly 24,000 protesters arrested so far are reportedly facing that accusation.

Doctors, however, cautioned that the true death toll may be far higher, possibly nearing 16,000, as the regime carries out what they described as a “genocide under the cover of digital darkness.”