Overview
- Verified videos show large crowds on Tehran’s Ayatollah-Kashani Boulevard, with major demonstrations also reported in Mashhad, Tabriz and Abadan as security forces fired tear gas and vehicles burned.
- Monitoring groups report a near‑nationwide shutdown of internet and phone services, with NetBlocks citing an almost complete blackout and Cloudflare tracking roughly a 90 percent drop in web traffic.
- Iran Human Rights reports at least 45 protesters killed, including minors, while official sources cite lower totals and say members of the security forces are among the dead.
- Activist network HRANA says about 2,200 people have been detained in recent clashes as arrests mount across numerous provinces.
- Exiled opposition figure Reza Pahlavi called for evening rallies and his name featured in street chants, while President Donald Trump warned Tehran of consequences if demonstrators are killed.