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2026-01-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Tehran Mayor: 25 mosques and 42 buses burned during protests, death toll up to 51 on 13th day
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] In Tehran, protesters damaged dozens of banks and government buildings, and set fire to mosques and vehicles, according to Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani.
"They attacked 26 banks and set fire to 25 mosques," the mayor said on the state broadcaster IRIB.
Twenty-five mosques, 42 buses, ambulances, and 48 fire trucks dispatched to extinguish the blazes were also set on fire. Additionally, 24 apartments were damaged, and law enforcement posts were attacked.
Protests in Iran began on December 28th, sparked by the sharp decline in the Iranian rial. On December 31st, the Fez city administration building was attacked. On January 1st, in the city of Hamadan, one group of protesters burned a Quran and several other religious books, while another group attempted to attack a mosque.
A series of clashes between rioters and police were also reported. On January 3, groups of unidentified armed men took to the streets of Serbale, firing bursts into the air while shouting anti-government slogans.
On January 8, a complete internet shutdown was observed across Iran amid ongoing protests. This followed a series of other measures aimed at curbing protest activity in the country.
Widespread Iran protests reach 13th day; rights group says at least 51 killed in crackdown
[IsraelTimes] 9 children said among those killed; security forces reportedly fire live rounds at protesters; reports say US, Israel reviewing assessments that demonstrations aren’t posing threat to regime
Protesters on Friday erupted into the streets of Iranian cities for a 13th day in a row, defying threats by authorities of a crackdown and despite reports that security forces had opened fire and killed demonstrators over the past day.
More than 51 protesters have been killed in 13 days of demonstrations in Iran
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sparked by anger against the regime and the rising cost of living, the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights said Friday.
"At least 51 protesters, including nine children under the age of 18, have been killed and hundreds more injured in the first thirteen days of the new round of nationwide protests in Iran," said the rights group, raising a previous toll of 45 issued the day earlier.
Protests are now marked by calls for the end of the Islamist holy manal system that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution that ousted the pro-Western shah.
Internet monitor Netblocks said authorities had now imposed a "nationwide internet shutdown" for the last 24 hours that was violating the rights of Iranians and "masking regime violence."
Despite the crackdown in communications, thousands erupted into the streets in Mashhad — Iran’s second-largest city and the hometown of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
— on Friday night, an eyewitness told Iran International.
Unverified videos on social media also apparently showed large crowds protesting in the capital city of Tehran.
The protests represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could be swayed by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, whose fatally ill father fled Iran just before the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Pahlavi, who called for the protests Thursday night, similarly called for demonstrations at 8 p.m. Friday.
Demonstrations have included cries in support of the shah, something that could bring a death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
in the past but now underlines the anger fueling the protests that began over Iran’s ailing economy.
An eyewitness who left Iran for Oman on Friday told anti-regime outlet Iran International that in his hometown of Rafsanjan, "the entire 30-Meter Street was gridlocked for five hours, packed with people chanting slogans and calling out for Prince Pahlavi," the night before.
"All the propaganda banners belonging to the Islamic Theocratic Republic along the street were set on fire. Anti-holy manal slogans covered the area around the governor’s office, and people set the governor’s office itself on fire."
The full scope of the protests is difficult to ascertain due to the communications blackout, while state media generally plays down anti-regime rallies.
However,
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Thursday and Friday night’s rallies appeared to represent an escalation in the growing movement.
Earlier on Friday, hundreds of people erupted into the streets in the Sunni-majority city of Zahedan in southeastern Iran.
The protests were largely attended by members of the Baluch ethnic group and included a women’s rally where participants were heard chanting "From Zahedan to Iran, my life for Iran" and "This is the final battle, Pahlavi will return."
The Haalvsh Baluch rights site said Iranian security forces opened fire on some of the protesters, wounding several of them.
The shooting reportedly took place near the city’s Makki Mosque, where demonstrators prayed before taking to the streets.
13TH DAY OF ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT PROTESTS IN IRAN
Additionally, disturbing footage shared by Iran International showed the bodies of seven people lying on the ground after protests in the town of Fardis, west of Tehran.
The outlet said the video was verified by fact-checking platform Factnameh, and stated that there was no official confirmation of the individuals’ condition, but that demonstrators had come under live fire.
In another video, footage showed multiple bodies on the floor at a Tehran hospital after protests on Thursday, with people crying over them.
REASSESSMENT BY US, ISRAEL
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling......
US intelligence agencies are reassessing their view from earlier this week that the protests in Iran did not pose a threat to the regime, a US official told Axios.
"The protests are serious, and we will continue to monitor them," the senior US official said.
Israel, too, has changed its assessment and increasingly believes the uprising may become more serious and threaten the regime, Channel 12 news said in an unsourced report on Friday.
Israel has identified that protests have grown and spread to many regions, while the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has begun to crack down on demonstrations, indicating an intensifying situation, the report said.
TEHRAN CLAIMS ISRAEL, US INTERVENING
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling......
Iran’s foreign minister accused the US and Israel on Friday of fueling the growing protest movement in the country, while dismissing the possibility of direct foreign military intervention after US warnings over crackdowns on demonstrators.
"This is what the Americans and Israelis have stated, that they are directly intervening in the protests in Iran," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said during a visit to Leb
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"They are trying to transform the peaceful protests into divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled ...
and violent mostly peaceful ones," he said, adding that "regarding the possibility of seeing military intervention against Iran, we believe there is a low possibility of this because their previous attempts were total failures."
The exiled son of Iran’s late Shah appealed to US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
to intervene urgently on behalf of the protesters on Friday.
"Mr. President, this is an urgent and immediate call for your attention, support and action," Reza Pahlavi wrote on social media. "Please be prepared to intervene to help the people of Iran."
Pahlavi, who lives in the Washington area, did not specify the intervention he was seeking but pointed to both an internet blackout and the threat of the use of force against protesters.
"I have called the people to the streets to fight for their freedom and to overwhelm the security forces with sheer numbers. Last night they did that," he wrote.
"Your threat to this criminal regime has also kept the regime’s thugs at bay. But time is of the essence. The people will be on the streets again in an hour. I am asking you to help."
Pahlavi had said he would offer further plans depending on the response to his call. His support of and from Israel has drawn criticism in the past — particularly after the 12-day war Israel waged on Iran in June. Though demonstrators have shouted in support of the shah in some demonstrations, it isn’t clear whether that’s support for Pahlavi himself or a desire to return to a time before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Trump, who ordered the bombing last year of Iranian nuclear sites in coordination with Israel, last week threatened military action if authorities kill protesters.
Khamenei digs in amid protests, vows not to back down in face of ‘vandals, saboteurs’
I guess he didn’t flee to Russia after all. Darn it. [IsraelTimes] Islamic Republic’s supreme leader says Trump, who’s threatened to hit Iran if demonstrators are killed, has hands ‘stained with the blood of Iranians’ and will be ‘overthrown’
Iran’s supreme leader signaled Friday that security forces would crack down on protesters after they screamed from windows and marched through the streets overnight, directly challenging US President Donald Trump’s pledge to support those peacefully demonstrating.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Trump as having hands “stained with the blood of Iranians” as supporters shouted “Death to America!” in footage aired by Iranian state television.
Protesters are “ruining their own streets to make the president of another country happy,” Khamenei said, referring to Trump. There was no immediate response from Washington, though Trump reiterated his pledge to strike Iran if protesters are killed.
The cleric-ruler called the demonstrators “vandals” and “saboteurs” in a speech broadcast on state TV.
Khamenei predicted the “arrogant” US leader would be “overthrown” like the imperial dynasty that ruled Iran up to the 1979 revolution.
“Everyone knows the Islamic Republic came to power with the blood of hundreds of thousands of honorable people. It will not back down in the face of saboteurs,” he added.
Despite Iran’s theocracy cutting off the nation from the internet and international telephone calls, short online videos shared by activists purported to show protesters chanting against Iran’s government around bonfires as debris littered the streets in the capital, Tehran, and other areas into Friday morning.
Iranian state media alleged “terrorist agents” of the US and Israel set fires and sparked violence. It also said there were “casualties,” without elaborating.
The full scope of the demonstrations couldn’t be immediately determined due to the communications blackout, though it represented yet another escalation in protests that began over Iran’s ailing economy and that has morphed into the most significant challenge to the government in several years. The protests have intensified steadily since beginning on December 28.
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