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Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but were said to have "dwindled" [15] or "died down" [16] by spring of 2023.
Anti-government protests took place in 24 cities in 18 provinces around Iran. [144] Anti-government strikes by merchants and other workers were held in ten cities in seven provinces. [144] Internationally, between 80,000 and 100,000 people marched in Berlin in solidarity with the Iranian women's rights movement. [145]
] On 14 February 2021, nationwide protests erupted in protest against an insufficient pension for retirees, fueled by inflation rates reaching 45%, [6] demanding justice over the deaths of 1500 during the 2019–2020 Iranian protests and an end to poverty. [citation needed] Iran's Stock Market Exchange bubble finally burst on 24 January.
The news of her death led to high school girls joining the anti-government protests in large numbers on 4 October, [33] some symbolically removing their hijabs in further defiance of the government. The schoolgirls joining the protests was called an "unprecedented show of support" by David Gritten of BBC News. [34]
Public protests took place in several cities in Iran beginning on 28 December 2017 and continued into early 2018, sometimes called the Dey protests. [26] The first protest took place in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city by population, initially focused on the economic policies of the country's government; as protests spread throughout the country, their scope expanded to include political ...
[9] [29] [30] The government crackdown and protests resulted in the destruction of 731 government banks including Iran's central bank, nine Islamic religious centres, protesters tearing down anti-American billboards, and posters and statues of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as well as former leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Fifty government military ...
Pages in category "Protests in Iran" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. ... December 30, 2009, Iranian pro-government rallies; 2018 Dervish ...
Black Friday (Persian: جمعه سیاه, romanized: Jom'e-ye Siyāh) is the name given to an incident occurring on 8 September 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 in the Iranian calendar) in Iran, [9] in which 64, [1] or at least 100 [10] [11] people were shot dead and 205 injured by the Pahlavi military in Jaleh Square (Persian: میدان ژاله, romanized: Meydān-e Jāleh) in Tehran.