Iran was plunged into an internet blackout on Thursday as protests over the nation’s economy entered their 12th day, according to reports.
This evening, protests over economic hardships erupted in the country’s capital, Tehran and other major cities, including Mashhad and Isfahan.
CNN reported that authorities cut internet access and telephone lines immediately after the protests began, but Iranian officials have yet to confirm what caused the blackout.
Demonstrators in Tehran were reportedly blocking roads and setting fires.
Donald Trump threatened to attack Iran if security forces kill protesters, telling Salem Radio Network: “I have let them know that if they start killing people, which they tend to do during their riots … we’re going to hit them very hard.”
Demonstrations took place in 31 provinces, including Fars province, where demonstrators hauled down a statue of the former senior Islamic Revolutionary Guards Quds Force (IRGC) commander Qasem Soleimani, according to clips shared on social media which have not been verified by The i Paper.
Videos shared online also showed hundreds of people marching against the Islamic regime and the state of the economy.
Many on the streets were heard chanting slogans against the Islamic Republic’s clerical rulers.
The demonstrations come after Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s late Shah, who was toppled in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, called for more protests to take place in a video post on X on Wednesday.
Protesters in Qamayeh, southwest Iran, toppling a statue of Soleimani (Photo: UGC/AFP/Getty)Video of the protests shows demonstrators chanted pro-Pahlavi slogans in several cities and towns across Iran.
Iranian state media dismissed the reports, saying cities across the country were calm.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian this evening warned domestic suppliers against hoarding or overpricing goods.
He said: “People should not feel any shortage in terms of goods’ supply and distribution.”
Pezeshkian also called upon his government to ensure an adequate supply of goods and the monitoring of prices across the country.
The current protests, the biggest wave of dissent in three years, began last month in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar after shopkeepers hit out at the value of the Iranian currency, the rial, plummeting against the US dollar on the open market.
Protestors in Fasa in southern Iran on 31 December (Photo: UGC/AFP/Getty)The rial has sunk to a record low over the past year and inflation has soared to 40 per cent as sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme squeeze an economy also weakened by government mismanagement and corruption.
The first protests on 28 December saw shopkeepers take to the streets of the capital, Tehran.
University students soon joined the protests and they began spreading to other cities.
Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) said Iranian security forces have killed at least 45 protesters, including eight children, since the demonstrations began in late December.
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IHR said on Wednesday was the bloodiest day of the now 12-day movement, as 13 protesters were confirmed to have been killed.
IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “The evidence shows that the scope of the crackdown is becoming more violent and more extensive every day.”
He added that hundreds more have been wounded and more than 2,000 arrested.Tehran remains under international pressure with Trump threatening to come to the aid of protesters if security forces fire on them, seven months after Israeli and US forces bombed Iranian nuclear sites.
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