Iran: Anti-Regime Protests Erupt in Tehran, Other Cities as Currency Hits Record Low
“Iranian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of merchants protesting soaring prices and the collapse of the local currency.”
A wave of anti-regime protests erupted on the streets of the capital, Tehran, and other cities amid reports of Iranian currency plunging to a historic low. “Shopkeepers in the capital have closed their stores, and mass demonstrations have broken out in response to the rial’s fall,” the Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. “Clashes have reportedly broken out across multiple streets in Tehran, with authorities using tear gas to disperse the protesters, according to footage of the events.”
This is a nightmare for Khamenei.
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) December 29, 2025
Entire Iranian cities have shut down all markets and bazaars, and are not only protesting the regime – but also calling on the Shah to return.
The deformed, evil mullahs have lost control of the streets.
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Protesters were heard chanting ‘Death to the Dictator’ Ali Khamenei and raising pro-monarchist slogans. “Iranian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of merchants protesting soaring prices and the collapse of the local currency,” the Israel Hayom newspaper reported on Monday. “In a rare development, demonstrators also chanted slogans in support of the shah and the former royal family.”
“Monday’s protests were the biggest since 2022,” The Associated Press noted. Iran last witnessed a large-scale uprising in 2022 and 2023, with nationwide protests after the regime’s “morality police” killed 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for not wearing a ‘proper’ hijab. Iran’s Islamic Guards (IRGC) and regime militia crushed those protests using deadly force.
🚨 Iran: Expansion of protests in Tehran – large gatherings of demonstrators at several points across the city – protesting the economic situation. pic.twitter.com/BWJQ8PdDD0
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) December 29, 2025
With President Donald Trump’s policy of Maximum Pressure back in place after four years of sanctions easing and appeasement under Biden’s reign, the Mullah regime is feeling the full force of U.S.-led Western sanctions. “The rial, which has been falling as the Iranian economy has suffered from the impact of Western sanctions, fell to a new record low on Monday at around 1,390,000 to the dollar,” Reuters reported, citing open source data. The Iranian rial went from 0.86 million to the dollar last year under Biden to over 1.40 million this weekend.
With currency in free fall, the governor of Iran’s Central Bank stepped down on Monday. “Iran’s central bank chief, Mohammad Reza Farzin, has resigned, the semi-official Nournews agency reported on Monday, citing an official at the president’s office, as the country battles a slump in its rial currency and high inflation,” the news outlet reported.
Tehran’s traders and shopkeepers are leading the protests, an uncanny reminder of how the 1979 unrest began, unseating the Iranian monarch. Ayatollah Khomeini hijacked the uprising to establish an Islamic regime. The Associated Press noted that “hundreds of traders and shopkeepers rallied in Saadi Street in downtown Tehran as well as in the Shush neighborhood near Tehran’s main Grand Bazaar. Merchants at the market played a crucial role in the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted the monarchy and brought Islamists to power.”
The similarities don’t end there. The toppled Iranian central bank chief is called Mohammad Reza Farzin; his namesake, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was ousted as ‘Shah’ in 1979.
Also reportedly new protests in Zahedan, Iran:
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) December 29, 2025
"Death to Khamenei and the Islamic Republic." pic.twitter.com/SZubkN3wj0
An iconic footage captured on a cellphone shows a lone protester defiantly sitting on the road as he faces off against several dozen armed riot policemen on motorbikes.
#IranProtests; Video shows security forces attacking demonstrators with teargas today in Tehran. In the footage, a protester can be seen sitting on the road facing the regime’s suppressive forces in defiance. Shopkeepers and merchants took to the streets of the capital today to… pic.twitter.com/Y2ZM44P6r5
— Ali Javanmardi (@Javanmardi75) December 29, 2025
A social media account in the Farsi language, reportedly belonging to Israel’s Mossad, tweeted in solidarity with the ongoing protests. It is unlikely that the Israeli intelligence agency would stage any operation on the ground, but it would certainly rattle the paranoid Mullahs clinging to power in Tehran. During the 12 Day War this summer, Israel — likely aided by intelligence gathered by Mossad — eliminated the top echelons of the Iranian military and security apparatus.
The Israel National News/Arutz Sheva reported:
Meanwhile, a social media account on X, associated with the Israeli Mossad in Farsi, published a call for residents to join the protests and even hinted at its presence at the location.
The tweet read, “Come together to the streets. It’s time. We are with you – not just from afar and in words. We are with you on the ground as well.”
The Mossad's Farsi X account issues a direct message to the Iranian people amid the growing protests:
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) December 29, 2025
"Let's come out to the streets together. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from afar and verbally. We are with you on the ground as well." https://t.co/mY4hOFJnqc pic.twitter.com/CUvVOKrksu
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Take it over and settle it with Palestinians. Two birds, one stone.
Only AFTER removing Iranian nuclear and CBW programs.
Subotai Bahadur
Nah. let Israel use it for some good old fashioned above ground nuclear testing – with or without added arabs,
not to be a pedant, but ~98% of Iranians are Persian, not Arab: different people, different background
From what I am led to understand, the Iranian-on-the-street is very pro-American. They have a horrible regime. I wish no harm to the Iranian people.
/puts on helmet for the onslaught of down-ticks
Obama slit them up a treat initially. But it seems like they’ve really had enough.
I worked with Shah-era Iranian personnel and found them to be quite westernized, friendly and pro-American. From what I’ve heard over the years, a significant percentage of the population remained so. I have no idea how the people I worked with fared under the post-revolution government but I suspect not well.
The refugees and other escapees are somewhat different than the main population…kinda like Latinos.
I had an Iranian roommate one semester in college. He was a nice enough guy. Would have roomed with him again but that was the yr the Shah was overthrown and the university was getting bomb threats about Iranians, regardless of the fact that the ones going to school there were very western thinking and were sent there by the shah to get an education and help make Iran more modern. The school ended up renting a nearby hotel and putting the Iranians in there for a month until everything died down a bit. Any of them whose families did not get out of Iran with their money ended up dropping out because the Ayatollah would not pay for their college like the shah or their parents would.
Good, if it’s true. But…
I’m old enough to remember the Silly ‘Sixties and Sillier ‘Seventies. The Iranian students shere I went to school were very anti-Shah. Both they and their campus Leftist allies were full of how our CIA toppled that wonderful democrat Mossadegh (who was a bold nationalist lion towards British petroleum concessions, and a crippled mouse before the Soviet petroleum concessions and plots to slice off southern Azerbaijan and Iranian Kordestan, as well as friends with the Tudeh). I understand Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and other Khomeini minions studied at Georgetown.
Later on, when I was older, I ran into the Mojaheddin-e-Kalq petitioning for American support on the National Mall. I approached one, and asked if they didn’t boast in their own circles that they were the first revolutionary fighters into the ‘Nest of Spies” back in 1979. He affirmed. I then told him he had his bloody nerve seeking US support in the heart of our Nation’s capital; that if I were President, I’ round up the whole lot of MEK in the USA, have their citizenship or green cards revoked, and deport them. Their actions made it clear that they were d-double daring the US to give them a second visitation of Huleku Khan or Temur Leng by their embassy takeover. The MEK guy retreated, the front of his pants darkening.
I’m not anti-immigrant or xenophobe. I lived and worked abroad a number of years, and have certain fondness for certain parts of the world. I fully accept that we are a nation of immigrants (I don’t go back so many generations in the USA myself; my family isn’t 100% “white”); and even think we could probably up the numbers of those legally admitted a little.
But let the Iranian people sort out their own mess. I am sick and tired of my country being everyone else’s alibi for their being failed states or tearing themselves apart; even though, as a former minion of the US State Department, I only wish the CIA had one one millionth of the power with which it is credited by our enemies. I get bombarded daily with videos about the plight of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Well, sorry, folks. I don’t want to invest a son or grandson in a chivalrous white knight rescue. The Brits (and their Indian soldiers) and the Russians can tell you about the Afghanis and their womenfolk. Our civilizing mission in that land of bigoted Islamicism, opium, an bacha bazi didn’t turn out so well either–as if you can make anything out of cookie dough except for cookies. If the mullahocracy (or the Chinese Communist regime) gets overthrown by their own people and the next government wants good relations with the US, well and good. But the USA really needs to pick its fights very, very carefully.
the majority (but definitely not all) of Persians I met at school in the early ’60s were leftists groomed in/by the Soviet Union to bite the hand that was feeding them.
I met one of the radicals again about 10 years ago; Over a vodka (yes! he drank alcohol) he told me that he was the only member of his extended family still alive.
He felt guilty that he might have been responsible for many of their deaths.
I got distracted by the thought of the Iranian nuke program. but there is something else to watch in Iran. I keep hearing about a multi-generational level drought and talk of evacuating the major cities and moving the population. Bring your own popcorn.
Subotai Bahadur
Somewhere on Martha’s Vineyard Obama is crying as his “signature” foreign policy achievement of proping up this hateful and violent regime dies. G-D bless the people of Iran and I pray for their success in winning their freedom from their own bad choices. This episode in history may it forever serve as a reminder of the terror and oppression that happens when you willfully and intentionally install at theocratic dictatorship. So called political Islam and Sharia law leads to death, oppression, violence and corruption. While useless idiot ahistorical free Palestine kids and professors in this country love the Iranian overlords the actual Iranians have sufferred tremendously from their own delerious dream of a religious totalitarian state. May that dream die and with it a Hamas ruled gaza and hezbollah ruled Lebanon. Women, Life, Freedom!
as I’ve been given to understand, a huge percentage of the population did not “choose” the regime under which they came to live
Who does?
Lots of populations vote ; is it a fair process ? Was there corruption ? Where there any hood choices to begin with ? All good questions . But populations do need to take responsibility for their bad decisions. Other wise we never learn from history
Our D fellow citizens, but I digress. On an earlier LI post I mentioned, in so mnay words, the the leadership of the political left, socialists, fascists, and communists were essentially just organized crime, but under a political umbrella. Khamenei and his ilk are no different, they are just under a religious umbrella.
Well the generation before them mostly certainly did and was ecstatic at installing the Islamic republic ; Iran hostage crisis anyone
Now this is change you can believe in!
Tehran is soon to lose all water and power. There will be lots of protests as they try to find new homes for 10 million people.
We cannot let the Democrats get control, Or they’ll all be here.
the following is how the iran/hamas/blmplo uses the msm to defeat us:
Prior to the Gaza war, al-Zahar openly acknowledged the fight against Israel is only one stage in a broader religious struggle, citing Islamic tradition to argue that a future global Islamic order would eliminate both “Zionism” and what he called “treacherous Christianity.” That worldview is consistent with Hamas’s original charter, which claims that “peace and quiet” for Jews and Christians is possible only “under the wing of Islam” and repeatedly invokes the Koran and other Islamic texts.
In an earlier statement, he argued that Muslims should build a mosque near Ground Zero as a symbol of global Islamic unity.
In an earlier statement, he argued that Muslims should build a mosque near Ground Zero as a symbol of global Islamic unity.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/12/29/exposed-internal-hamas-writings-reveal-strategy-hide-true-agenda-while-appealing-western-media/
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