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The pro-government counter protesters called for the Mahsa Amini protesters to be executed, and referred to them as "Israel's soldiers" whilst shouting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel", reflecting Iran's clerical rulers' usual narrative that dissatisfaction with its rule is the result of foreign conspiracy not its own doing.
The 2021-2022 Iranian protests erupted on 15 July 2021 to protest the water shortages and crisis, but were quickly met with police violence and brutality."Bloody Aban", November 2021 saw further protests due to water shortages but various other protests and strikes also took place due to the worsening economic situation.
26 December was the 100th day of protests. The BBC called the protests "the longest-running anti-government protests in Iran" since 1979, and also stated that, unlike previous protests against the Islamic Republic, there was "emerging use" of Molotov cocktails against the government militia and against Hawza school. [235]
In response to anti-government protests held three days earlier [1] On 30 December 2009, pro-government rallies, also known as the "Dey 9 epic", [ 2 ] took place in various Iranian cities, including Tehran , [ 3 ] Shiraz , Arak , Qom [ 4 ] and Isfahan . [ 5 ]
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 ...
Iran protests or Iranian protests may refer to: 1921 Persian coup d'état; 1953 Iranian coup d'état; 1979 Islamic Revolution; 1999 Iranian student protests; 2003 Iranian student protests; 2009–2010 Iranian presidential election protests; 2011–2012 Iranian protests; 2016 Cyrus the Great Revolt; 2017–2018 Iranian protests
The Imperial State of Iran, the government of Iran during the Pahlavi dynasty, lasted from 1925 to 1979.The use of torture and abuse of prisoners varied at times during the Pahlavi reign, according to one history, [6] but both of two monarchs – Reza Shah Pahlavi and his son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi – employed censorship, secret police, torture, and executions.
After the Iranian government ended subsidies for imported wheat, the price of flour soared by around 500%, [13] exacerbating current inflation, which hovered around 50%. [14] The protests, beginning on 6 May in Khuzestan, [15] were initially associated with the rising cost of living. However, they rapidly escalated into anti-Mullah demonstrations.