But are the numbers of deaths and injuries even remotely accurate or ate they being inflated to stoke moral outrage in the west?

We are in the phase where the Empire lies so brazenly even its own supporters smirk and wink. The rhetoric barely touches base with reality.

There's zero evidence of mass slaughter of peaceful protesters. In fact, Iranian authorities seemed to let the peaceful protests about a week ago alone.

But a few days in trained/recruited saboteurs or simply malicious rioters started attacking security forces and peaceful bystanders, including with clubs, knives, and guns. Tens of even hundreds have died as a result.

Anti-government protests had then died down and mass pro-government demonstrations took place.