Overview
- Clips circulating online show Reza Pahlavi urging security forces to defect during a brief takeover of state broadcasts that Iranian outlets dismiss as a technical glitch.
- Pahlavi released a video vowing, "I will return," and declaring "This is the last battle," though his authority and domestic backing remain contested.
- HRANA reports 3,919 verified deaths, including 3,685 protesters and 178 security personnel, and about 24,000 detentions during the latest protest wave.
- Independent traffic data detected short-lived increases in connectivity over the weekend before the nationwide internet blackout snapped back into place.
- Tensions rose as President Trump called for a new leader in Tehran, while Iran’s president warned any attack on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would constitute war, and some media cited far higher, unverified death tolls.