Iranian democracy movements

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.

series of demonstrations in Iran beginning on 28 December 2017

protests against the 2009 re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

series of demonstrations in Iran

series after the 2009 Iranian presidential election

Iranian Shi'a jurist and political activist (1839–1911)

Iranian Shia Marja' and politician (1840–1912)

a series of strikes and protests that took place across Iran

a Revolution during the Constitutionalization attempts in Iran in 1906

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Iraqi Islamic scholar and jurist (1815–1908)