Overview
- Protests entered a sixth day across multiple cities, fueled by a collapsing rial near 1.4 million per dollar and soaring prices after initial strikes by shopkeepers and student walkouts.
- Rights groups and Iranian outlets reported several fatalities with conflicting counts and identities, citing deaths in Azna, Lordegan, Fuladshahr and a disputed case in Kuhdasht involving a Basij member.
- Security forces used tear gas, shotguns and pellets in confrontations, with video from Fasa showing pellets fired outside a governorate building and officials announcing arrests and video-led suspect identification.
- Senior figures Ali Larijani and Ali Shamkhani cautioned that any U.S. move would endanger American interests and be met decisively following President Trump’s threat to intervene.
- Authorities coupled limited outreach with tighter controls, declaring a nationwide day of closures, replacing university security chiefs, and appointing Abdolnasser Hemmati as central bank governor after Mohammad-Reza Farzin resigned.