Protests in Iran

The Iranian Revolution, also known as the Islamic Revolution, culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by Ruhollah Khomeini, an Islamist cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions. The ousting of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, formally marked the end of Iran's historical monarchy.

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.

Iranian protest movement in 2022–2023

series of demonstrations in Iran beginning on 28 December 2017

protests against the 2009 re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranian series of protests

mass shooting of protesters in Pahlavi Iran on 8 September 1978

Iranian protesters in hijab status

Muslim revolt in Iran against an 1890 tobacco concession granted to Great Britain

series of demonstrations in Iran

1963 public backlash in Pahlavi-dynasty Iran

series after the 2009 Iranian presidential election

violent public protests in Iran

series of protests in 2021–2022

Iranian student

part of Reza Khan modernizing & unveiling women

part of the Iranian Revolution

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Protests in Iran

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political crisis in Iran

Iranian Azeri protests

a series of strikes and protests that took place across Iran

Protests in response to the downing of Ukrainian Flight 752

anti-government slogan

Iranian Baloch protester killed by security forces in 2022; became a symbol of protest

Event in the leadup of the Iranian Revolution

Causes of the Iranian Revolution

support rallies for Azerbaijan, actions and demonstrations against Iran and Armenia by southern Azerbaijanis after the Battle of Tovuz and the Second Karabakh War in 2020.