Overview
- National police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan said those "deceived" into joining the unrest have three days to surrender for leniency, while alleged leaders will face severe punishment.
- Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB acknowledged a brief satellite disruption after multiple channels aired clips of exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi urging security forces not to fire on citizens.
- UN human rights chief Volker Türk said Iran is using executions as a tool of state intimidation, as authorities vow fast-track prosecutions and asset seizures for protest supporters.
- Casualty and arrest figures remain contested: rights groups verify roughly 3,400–4,000 deaths and tens of thousands of arrests, an Iranian official cited at least 5,000 dead, and a doctors’ report reviewed by the Sunday Times alleges about 16,500 killed.
- U.S. ship-tracking shows the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group transiting the Strait of Malacca toward a route that could lead to the Middle East, while President Masoud Pezeshkian warns that any attack on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would mean all-out war.