Food riots

The 2025–2026 Iranian protests are a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp depreciation of the Iranian rial, rising inflation, and widespread shortages linked to international sanctions and government mismanagement. This event has been the largest uprising in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, spreading to more than 200 cities across the country. The ensuing crackdown, reportedly carried out under orders by Ali Khamenei and senior officials to use live fire on protesters, resulted in massacres that left thousands of protesters dead, making them the largest massacres in modern Iranian history.

demonstration against the communist regime in Poland

food riot and march by market-women during the French Revolution

1918 food riots in Japan

General panic in France in 1789

December 1970 unrest in Poland

protest

wave of riots, prelude of French Revolution

riots occurred in April 1789 in Paris, during the French Revolution

1766 Spanish riots

food riot in June 1648 in Moscow, Russia

Protests in Poland

widespread civil unrest over food subsidies

riot in Tunisia

revolt in Berlin

riot caused by shortage and/or unequal distribution of food

uprising over food shortage in the Netherlands

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