The unrest marks the largest protests in Iran since the “Woman Life Freedom” protests in 2022. Ongoing nationwide protests in Iran have killed more than 500 people, a rights group says, as Tehran warns of retaliation if US President Donald Trump carries out threats to intervene on behalf of demonstrators. According to its latest spreadsheet — based on activists inside and outside Iran — the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said it had verified the deaths of 490 protesters and 48 security personnel, with more than 10,600 people arrested.
Tehran has closed its shutters, and uprisings have erupted in 130 cities nationwide. History will tell us whether the time of freedom for Iran has arrived. What is certain is that the situation is dramatic, and the regime’s repression of the demonstrators is extremely violent: more than a thousand people have been arrested, over thirty killed, arbitrary detentions carried out, and schools and universities shut down. President Trump stated — shortly after the U.S. intervention in Venezuela — that the United States would act if Tehran were to shoot and kill peaceful protesters.
