Millions of Iranian citizens have taken to the streets since Dec. 28 in an unprecedented, widespread revolt against the Islamic Republic’s regime.
Watching events closely from Canada is Iranian-born Goldie Ghamari, who was just a year old when her family fled for Canada in 1986 – seven years after another revolution deposed the Shah of Iran and installed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
🚨 WATCH: A protester climbs the Iranian Embassy in London to replace the Islamic Republic flag with the pre-revolution Lion and Sun flag pic.twitter.com/ap9FGSyVNl
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Iranian girl states:
"Islam is neither the religion of Iran nor that of ancient Persia, Islam was imposed on us through torture, massacres, and rape, by enslaving Iranians to convert them to Islam. The Iranians, or Persians, were actually Zoroastrians.”pic.twitter.com/NvsMoDBNIN— Azat (@AzatAlsalim) January 10, 2026
Iran protesters tell of brutal police response as regime lashes out
Demonstrators have continued to take to the streets of Iran, defying an escalating crackdown by authorities against the growing protest movement.
An internet shutdown imposed by the authorities on Thursday has largely cut the protesters off from the rest of the world, but videos that trickled out of the country showed thousands of people demonstrating in Tehran overnight into Saturday morning. They chanted: “Death to Khamenei,” in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and: “Long live the shah.”
