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was shaken by a protest movement that peaked on January 8-9, during which rights groups accused the government of killing thousands of people, though those figures cannot be confirmed.
While the street protests have petered out in the face of the crackdown, last week, residents of Tehran and other cities began shouting slogans against the leadership from the relative safety of their own homes inside vast apartment blocks.
In a new night of chants, residents of the eastern Tehran district of Ekbatan on Sunday shouted "death to Khamenei," "death to the Islamic Theocratic
Republic" and "long live the shah," according to the Shahrak Ekbatan social media account, which monitors the area.
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the shah ousted by the Islamic Revolution, had urged people inside the country to stage such actions in parallel with protests abroad over the weekend.
Police in the southern German city of Munich said 250,000 people attended a rally there Saturday, which, in an unusual move, was personally addressed by Pahlavi.
Other major pro-monarchy rallies were held in diaspora strongholds, including Los Angeles and Toronto.
Pahlavi’s office said on X that over a million people had attended such rallies worldwide, but it was not immediately possible to confirm the figure.
Speaking in Munich, Pahlavi hailed the rally as the biggest such in years and said he was ready to lead a transition in Iran.
Monarchist supporters were also gladdened by an extremely rare public appearance at the rally by his sole surviving full sibling, his sister, the former princess Farahnaz.
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International, which is based outside Iran, reported similar actions taking place in other parts of Tehran on Sunday, broadcasting images of people chanting "this is the final battle, Pahlavi is coming back" and "death to the Guards" in reference to the authorities’ ideological army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Slogans hostile to the authorities were also chanted in other cities, including Shiraz in the south and Arak in the center of the country, it added.
It was not immediately possible for AFP to verify the videos.
The new actions come two days ahead of talks on Tuesday between the US and Iran focused on the Iranian nuclear program in Geneva, which are seen as crucial to determining if Washington goes ahead with military action against Tehran.