The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran spiked Tuesday to at least 2,000 people killed, activists said, as Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days after authorities severed communications during a crackdown.

Deep-rooted discontent at the country’s ‘entire regime’ and economic concerns have sparked widespread protest far beyond Tehran

In 2009, 2017, 2019, and 2022, major protests in Iran shook the regime, but were eventually put down by a mix of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij stormtroopers, who are willing to kill and beat their ...

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The Islamic Republic has experienced multiple mass protests in recent years, but the latest round of demonstrations come at a particularly difficult moment for the regime. Iranian people hold the national flags next to a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader ...

The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss Iran's deadly protests at the request of the United States, even as President Donald Trump left unclear what actions he would take against the Islamic state.

Rights groups say thousands, including bystanders, were killed during the unrest, which represented the ​biggest challenge ⁠to Iran's clerical government since 2022. At least 50 countries backed the call for a special session of the U.