Iran protests turn deadly as anti-regime demonstrations enter fifth day

Protests successful Iran entered a 5th consecutive time connected Thursday, with demonstrations and clashes reported crossed Tehran and aggregate provincial cities arsenic authorities, state-linked media and rights groups cited further deaths overnight.

According to Reuters, respective radical person been killed since the unrest escalated, based connected reports from Iranian media and quality rights groups. Iranian authorities person confirmed astatine slightest 1 death, portion different fatalities person been reported successful antithetic provinces.

Opposition radical National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) told Fox News Digital successful a connection that protests and thoroughfare clashes continued Thursday greeting successful Tehran and successful cities including Marvdasht, Kermanshah, Delfan and Arak, and claimed that 2 protesters were killed by nonstop occurrence successful Lordegan. Fox News Digital could not independently verify the deaths.

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Protesters propulsion backmost information forces successful Tehran connected Dec 30, 2025. (NCRI)

The protests began connected Sunday aft shopkeepers and merchants demonstrated against soaring inflation, unemployment and the crisp depreciation of Iran’s currency. The unrest rapidly dispersed beyond bazaars to see students and wider nationalist demonstrations successful cities crossed the country.

In Lordegan, successful Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, clashes intensified overnight. Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, reported that crowds threw stones astatine authorities buildings, including the governor’s office, the judiciary, the Martyrs Foundation, the Friday supplication analyzable and respective banks. Police utilized teardrop state to disperse protesters, and aggregate buildings were heavy damaged. Fars said 2 radical were killed during the clashes, without specifying whether they were protesters oregon information personnel.

The Kurdish rights radical Hengaw reported that protesters successful Lordegan were killed by information forces. In Kuhdasht, authorities said a subordinate of the Basij unpaid paramilitary unit was killed, and 13 others wounded during clashes, blaming demonstrators. Hengaw disputed that account, telling Reuters that the idiosyncratic was a protester killed by information forces. Reuters said it could not corroborate either version.

Iran protests unit nationwide shutdown arsenic President Masoud Pezeshkian closes businesses and offices crossed 21 provinces amid mounting nationalist anger. (MEK/ People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran)

Separately, Iran International reported that a 37-year-old antheral was changeable dormant successful Fooladshahr, successful Isfahan province, during overnight protests. Iran International said it verified the man’s individuality and reviewed video footage, portion provincial constabulary confirmed the decease of a 37-year-old national without providing further details.

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Six women who were detained during protests successful Tehran person been transferred to the women’s ward of Evin prison, U.S.-based rights radical Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said.

President Donald Trump and different medication officials voiced enactment for the demonstrators this week. Speaking Monday, Trump pointed to Iran’s economical illness and long-standing nationalist discontent, portion stopping abbreviated of explicitly calling for authorities change.

Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, issued a connection connected the continuing protests, noting: "The four-day uprising by merchants, students, and different sectors of nine signals the Iranian people’s determination to beryllium escaped from spiritual tyranny. This wretched authorities is doomed to beryllium overthrown by the risen populace and rebellious youth. The last connection is spoken successful the streets by the radical and the rebellious youth, those with thing near to lose. This authorities indispensable go."

The past large protests seen successful Iran followed the decease of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini aft she was detained by the morality police, successful Tehran, Oct. 1, 2022.  (AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)

The unrest comes arsenic Iran’s system remains nether terrible strain from years of planetary sanctions, precocious ostentation and currency depreciation. Authorities declared a nationwide shutdown connected Wednesday, officially citing utmost acold weather, and said the authorities offered to clasp talks with representatives of merchants and commercialized unions implicit what it described arsenic "legitimate demands."

Another influential dissident leader, the exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the eldest lad of the precocious Shah of Iran, took to X and appealed to the planetary assemblage "to basal with the radical of Iran." He continued successful part, "The existent authorities has reached the extremity of the road. It stands astatine its astir fragile: weak, profoundly divided, and incapable to suppress the courageousness of a rising nation. The increasing protests amusement this twelvemonth volition beryllium the definitive infinitesimal for change."

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Iran has faced repeated waves of unrest implicit the past decade. While nationwide protests successful 2022 pursuing the decease of Mahsa Amini centered connected women’s rights and authorities repression, the existent demonstrations are rooted chiefly successful economical grievances, with protesters successful respective cities present openly directing their choler astatine Iran’s governmental leadership.

Reuters contributed to this report.