While multiple reports indicate hundreds of protesters have been killed in Iran, the real death toll is likely much higher, according to a Middle East policy expert.  

“I think that thousands, if not over 10,000, are probably dead,” Gregg Roman, executive director of the Middle East Forum, told The Daily Signal, pointing to images of makeshift morgues coming out of Iran.  

The Guardian published a video Monday showing large numbers of body bags lining the grounds outside a medical center in Tehran, and France 24 reported similar images.  

WARNING: The video below contains disturbing images.  

“This is probably the worst violence that the regime has extracted on its people since the revolution,” Roman said, referring to the Iranian Revolution in 1979.  

Anti-regime protests have gained momentum in Iran over the past two weeks, in response to Iran’s failing economy and rampant........

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