Overview
- Rights group HRANA reports at least 36 people killed, including four minors, and more than 2,000 arrests since the unrest began, figures not independently verified.
- Security forces used tear gas at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar and entered hospitals in Ilam and Hasanabad in recorded incidents that spurred an official inquiry.
- Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei warned of no leniency for those deemed to aid enemies, and army chief Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami threatened a response to hostile rhetoric after President Trump’s warnings.
- The government began roughly $7 monthly payments and plans subsidy changes as the rial trades around 1.46–1.47 million per dollar and strikes and protests spread to scores of cities.
- Exiled Reza Pahlavi called for synchronized nationwide chants on January 8 and 9 as activists push fresh mobilization.