Overview
- Rights groups reported sharply higher casualty counts, with HRANA confirming at least 116 dead and more than 2,600 arrests, while Iran Human Rights cited a minimum of 192 deaths that could be higher, figures not independently verified due to severe reporting constraints.
- Authorities have maintained a near-total shutdown of internet and mobile service since late in the week, though some videos still surfaced from Tehran and other cities via satellite links that activists say were smuggled in.
- President Donald Trump declared the United States is ready to help protesters, and U.S. media reported he was briefed on military options without a decision, as reports also described a Netanyahu–Rubio call on potential intervention and Israel’s heightened alert posture.
- Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that U.S. bases and shipping, as well as Israel, would be treated as legitimate targets if Washington attacks, reflecting rising regional risk linked to the unrest.
- Exiled opposition figure Reza Pahlavi urged nationwide strikes and the occupation of city centers, with large gatherings recorded again in Tehran, while Iran’s attorney general warned participants could face capital charges as “enemies of God.”