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2025–2026 Iranian protests
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.
2026 United States military buildup in the Middle East
largest military buildup in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq
2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
prelude to the 2026 Iran war
period of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States
reactions to the 2025–2026 Iranian protests