Visitors to Tehran’s enormous and enormously luxurious Iran Mall in January 2024 must have wondered who would invest so much money for such extravagance in such an embattled country. The mall is the world’s largest shopping and entertainment centre, with over three million square feet just for its shops, plus giant decorative fountains in a city running out of drinking water. At the time, Iran was exchanging missile strikes with Pakistan over each country’s war with its own Baluch population. It would soon also escalate its intermittent Israel war and suffer disastrous defeat.
🚨 BREAKING: Iranians’ uprising against Islamic Occupation continues
The first footage from Zahedan has arrived. Due to internet shutdown and Starlink signal issues, fewer videos are coming out but the message from Iran is “we are still fighting”. pic.twitter.com/h8uCXzgM12
— Tousi TV (@TousiTVOfficial) January 16, 2026
