'The streets are full of blood': Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down

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Source: The Guardian

Crowds of thousands have marched across the country each night, chanting “death to the dictator”, a reference to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and for the return of the Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled Iran before the 1979 revolution.

At least 538 people have been killed in the violence surrounding demonstrations, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, including 490 protesters. The group reported that more than 10,600 people had been arrested by Iranian authorities.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/11/iran-protests-gather-momentum-demonstrators-protest-movement

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1. 😔 brave people