The regime’s instability grows as women lead protests, reject compulsory hijab, and demand freedom. But will this spark revolution? Or will repression prevail? History suggests both are possible. 🌍 #IranUprising

Middle East Crisis: Unconfirmed reports indicate that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead and his body has been found #IranUprising #SupremeLeader #AliKhamenei #MiddleEastCrisis #IslamicRepublicOfIran

Iran latest: US has launched 'major combat operations', Trump says - as explosions heard in major cities The US has launched "major combat operations" against Iran, Donald Trump has said. Israel is also involved - and the IDF says Iran has responded with retaliatory strikes.

Iran latest: US has launched 'major combat operations', Trump says - as explosions heard in major cities #UnitedStates #USMilitaryOperations #TehranUnderAttack #IranUprising

Most of MENA was colonized by Muslims through brutal wars and massacres. Our histories, cultures, languages and traditions were erased through centuries of destruction. Iranians have been fighting to decolonize Iran for as long as I can remember.
#FreeIran #IranUprising #Islamotrauma

Iran students resume anti-government protests The student protesters honoured thousands of those killed when nationwide mass protests were put down last month.

Iran students resume anti-government protests (video) #IranProtests #IranUprising #TehranProtests

Iran students resume anti-government protests The student protesters honoured thousands of those killed when nationwide mass protests were put down last month.

BBC shows regime employees playing un-Iranian rhythms & shouting for "Heydar" - Arabic means of praise in 12Shia islam, not native to #Iran
The Islamic regime hires in mercenaries each uprising, we see more of that here

#iranprotests #freeiran #iranuprising #middleeast
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Eleven years old was the age to run after a ball, not the age to run after freedom surrounded by bullets. Your small body was strangely and nightly handed over to the earth, but your memory became a star that shows the way in the dark nights of this land. he was killed during #Iranuprising

@sheriran95

#FreeIran2026 : At the opening ceremony of the
#BerlinFilmFestival (Berlinale) on Thursday, February 12, a group of actors and activists 👏💚🌹
appeared on the red carpet ...

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#IranProtests
#IranUprising

I am good at multitasking. I can fight the Regime and Islam and anyone who’s going to con us into another system that’s not an absolute democracy.
#FreeIran #IranUprising #R2PforIran #DigitalBlackout #Islamotrauma

In solidarity with Iran’s nationwide uprising.

🕯️ Honoring those killed for freedom.

📍 Feb 7, 2026 | 1 PM
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

No to the Shah. No to the Mullahs. No to dictatorship.

We remember the fallen. We stand with the living.

#BerlinFreeIranDemo #IranUprising

Iran’s January Uprising: Mass Killings, Child Deaths, and a Deepening Detention Crisis Rights monitors report thousands killed and tens of thousands arrested in Iran’s January uprising, including over 160 children, amid forced confessions, medical intimidation, and rising execution fears. As repression continues, HRANA (the Human Rights Activists News Agency) reported that by the end of Wednesday, 15 Bahman 1404 (February 4, 2026), the total number of deaths linked to the crackdown had reached 6,883. HRANA’s breakdown indicates: * 6,445 of those killed were protesters. * 164 were children under 18. * 214 were government-affiliated forces, and 60 were non-protesting civilians. * 11,280 additional cases remain under review. HRANA also reported 11,021 civilian injuries and described a continued pattern of lethal force and escalating securitization. Children in the crosshairs The reported child death toll has become a central marker of the uprising’s human-rights catastrophe. Alongside HRANA’s figure of 164 children killed, former political prisoner and teachers’ union activist Mohammad Habibi published the names of slain students, describing them as the residents of “five empty classrooms.” He wrote that the list had already passed 160 children—“160 names, 160 dreams, 160 stolen futures”—and warned that new names continue to appear, underscoring the scale and persistence of child casualties. Mass arrests, summonses, and enforced uncertainty HRANA reported 50,842 arrests by 15 Bahman 1404 (February 4, 2026), alongside 11,046 summonses and 307 cases of forced confessions. It also cited at least 109 student arrests. On the ground, HRANA documented ongoing scattered and mass detentions across multiple provinces—including Tehran, Fars, Ilam, Gilan, Kermanshah, and Kurdistan—and noted continued lack of information about the whereabouts of some detainees, including several women in Tehran. In one collective case, the arrest of 265 citizens in Bandar Anzali and Langarud was reported. Detention conditions: beatings, forced confessions, and denial of medical care Multiple accounts point to detention as a second front of repression. HRANA cited political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, who warned from Isfahan Central Prison about detainees with serious injuries—reportedly caused by live ammunition and shrapnel—being denied medical treatment. In parallel, the Iran Human Rights organization warned that the post-crackdown phase has entered an “emergency” stage for detainees, with thousands at serious risk in official and unofficial detention sites. The organization reported that more than 40,000 people have been arrested in connection with the protests, with many held under the control of the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence, cut off from family and legal counsel and outside meaningful judicial oversight. Iran Human Rights emphasized three acute threats: * Death of injured detainees due to deliberate medical deprivation or torture. * Allegations of secret executions without due process (reports described as credible but still under review). * A wave of death sentences following rushed, deeply unfair trials. It also noted the systematic use of security charges such as moharebeh (a charge often translated as “enmity against God,” used in Iran for serious political/security accusations and potentially punishable by death), “terrorism,” and “cooperation with the enemy,” alongside widespread state broadcasting of coerced confessions. Militarization and information control Beyond arrests and killings, a wider architecture of control has taken shape. HRANA highlighted sustained internet disruptions, with many users reporting severe slowdowns and repeated disconnections. Data cited from Kentik indicated that internet traffic remained about 50% below pre-blackout levels, while a deputy communications minister acknowledged that the network had “not yet returned to normal,” describing disruptions as beyond the ministry’s control—further deepening uncertainty and limiting documentation and access to information. In the political-security sphere, remarks by MP Esmail Kowsari drew attention after he said the Supreme National Security Council decided that police, Basij, and the IRGC would enter the field “armed” to “neutralize” the protests—comments that, set against casualty and detention figures, reinforced fears of further escalation. Society’s response: teachers, doctors, artists, and child-rights advocates Reactions have widened across professional and cultural spheres: * In education and civil society, Habibi’s publication of students’ names framed the child death toll as an assault on the right to life and education, insisting that the victims would not be forgotten and that demands for justice remain alive. * In the medical sphere, Iran’s Supreme Council of the Medical System issued a statement warning about threats and pressure on healthcare workers and calling for their protection—reflecting growing concern that treating injured protesters is being obstructed or criminalized. * In child rights advocacy, the Komak Network and more than 20 civil and labor organizations issued a formal letter to the head of Iran’s Prisons Organization demanding the immediate and unconditional release of detainees under 18, especially students. Citing Iran’s own child- and juvenile-procedure laws, the signatories argued that detention in punitive environments can cause irreversible psychological, social, and educational harm. The network also announced readiness to provide psychosocial support, social-work services, legal counseling, and pro bono legal representation after release. Copies of the letter were sent to multiple state bodies, and follow-ups reportedly continue. * In the cultural sphere, the Fajr Film Festival became a site of public tension and visible dissent, including objections by prominent figures and publicized refusals to participate, signaling how cultural institutions are being pulled into the wider social rupture created by the crackdown. Across these developments, the pattern is consistent: lethal street repression has been followed by mass detention, coercive confession practices, medical intimidation, and heightened fears of executions—while public resistance expands among teachers, child-rights defenders, medical bodies, and cultural figures, even as internet disruption constrains visibility and documentation.

Iran’s January Uprising: Mass Killings, Child Deaths, and a Deepening Detention Crisis #IranUprising #HumanRights

Calling what the Regime is doing to Iranians a ‘war’ legitimizes the atrocities they’re committing. The Regime is exterminating a people off the face off the Earth just because they want to be free. Don’t call this a war.

#R2PforIran #FreeIran #DigitslBlackout #IranUprising #Islamotrauma

The Women’s Committee of the NCRI has published a list of women and young girls who gave their lives for freedom in Iran during the recent #IranUprising.
🔗 wncri.org/2026/01/25/w...
The list will be updated as new names are identified.
@hrw.org

4) They write off the injustice as cultural & all sorts of bookish leaden unhelpful mental gymnastics, rather than just condemn those who kill. <KILLING IN THE NAME OF RELIGION MEANS THE KILLERS HAVE NO RELIGION>

#middleeast #iranrevolution #iranuprising

#NedaAghaSoltan - 2009 Green Wave uprisings

I don’t want to wake up to another update. These aren’t just numbers. These were real people. With real hopes. Real lives. Real deaths. How are we going to remember all their names? How do we keep all their memories alive?

#R2PforIran #FreeIran #IranUprising #DigitalBlackout
#Islamotrauma

Do people wake up every day and actively choose evil or does it come to them naturally?

#FreeIran #IranUprising #DigitalBlackout
#Islamotrauma #ExMuslimBecause

Mass Killing, Then Panic: The Islamic Republic’s Post-Crackdown Crisis Khamenei’s personalized rule has left the Islamic Republic unprepared for a sudden leaderless crisis; after mass killing and war shocks, the system panics, obsessed with his survival and succession. The nationwide uprising in early January 2026 was a major shock for the Islamic Republic—another blow to a body already battered by the 12-day war in June 2025 and still behaving like a patient in intensive care. Before furious, exhausted people poured into the streets, the state expected unrest, but not on the scale that erupted. It imagined something closer to November 2019, or perhaps a climate resembling the 2022 uprising. But the protests that broke out in January 2026 looked different: they spread so widely that Khamenei and the security leadership concluded that only an order for blind mass killing could pull the system back from the brink of rapid collapse. The large-scale killing campaign the Islamic Republic unleashed has, in the short term, achieved its immediate aim: preventing an overnight fall. You can see it in the fear stamped onto the cities—and in the killers’ staged displays of power over mourners on state television and in the main streets. But the story is not over. The system has merely bought time. Mass killing rarely brings a regime “back to normal” Using slaughter as a tool of survival is a dangerous tactic. Very few political systems manage to return to anything like “normal life” after killing their own people. China after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre may be one of the rare cases where a state killed on a massive scale and still managed, over time, to contain the consequences. Other examples point in the opposite direction: the killing in Daraa in Syria, the killing in Benghazi in Libya, the Timisoara killings in Romania, the repression of opponents under Pinochet, and Argentina’s “Dirty War” in the 1970s and 1980s. They all underline a grim pattern: mass killing may buy a government time, but it almost always destroys legitimacy, produces permanent crisis, and ends the possibility of “normal life” for the political order itself. The Islamic Republic’s situation is even more complicated. Long before the killings of January 2026, it had already abandoned any “normal” political life. What happened in recent weeks has only intensified that condition. After a massacre, regimes typically face a long, costly agenda: reorganizing the coercive apparatus, crushing and fragmenting opponents, studying the sparks that produced the uprising, and blocking pathways to another eruption through surveillance and social engineering. And here lies a contradiction: a regime that failed to anticipate a massive uprising—and failed to manage repression through lower-cost tactics—does not suddenly become wise and capable after ordering blind slaughter. That is why political systems entering a post-massacre phase so often slide into a long period of crisis-soaked survival. From managing the massacre to fearing an assassination But Khamenei and the ruling system face another, immediate pressure: the failure of the Islamic Republic’s security strategies in recent years has also made its external enemies impatient for its end. Managing mass killing and the society that follows is already a vast, painful project. Yet when Donald Trump, the U.S. president, signals eagerness to strike the core of the Islamic Republic—and appears ready to target Ali Khamenei—priorities shift. When the president of a country whose streets are still stained with protesters’ blood becomes consumed with the Supreme Leader’s safety, a message is sent: managing the massacre is now priority number two; saving the Leader’s life comes first. One emergency after another. Khamenei ordered mass killing to stop the human flood in the cities so the system could at least continue in a kind of bare, minimal survival. And now the U.S. president may be tempted to kill him. This is not an attempt to mock Khamenei. It is a description of the situation without exaggeration. Look at Masoud Pezeshkian’s tweet on Sunday, January 18, 2026: “An assault on the Leader of the Revolution is equal to an all-out war with the people of Iran.” Put that next to Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf’s speech the next day, January 19, 2026, in which he portrayed Khamenei not only as leader, but as the “life” of the Iranian nation, and ended by chanting: “The blood in our veins is a gift to our Leader.” Isn’t this strange—unnatural? Two heads of state branches have dropped everything and are fixated on the possibility that a bullet might be aimed at Ali Khamenei. Governments massacre to stay in power—not to massacre and then find themselves in a worse position than before. While the Islamic Republic should be implementing its post-crime arrangements—reorganizing itself to withstand future waves of domestic fury—it is consumed by a larger external threat: one that targets the very top of the system. A system built around one man So why is the Islamic Republic facing such chaos in executing its “survival arrangements”? Because the Islamic Republic as we know it is the product of Ali Khamenei’s design. He shaped its architecture, arranged its components, removed some figures and elevated others, set strategies—and drove this bus to the station of the January 2026 massacre. The structure he built connects nearly every part of the system to him through one, or at most two, intermediaries. Formally, there is separation of powers. In practice, every power-holder has power by his permission—and by his gesture can be dismissed, confined, or eliminated. A political order that depends on one individual is inherently fragile. Multiple power centers—and not concentrating everything in one person—usually increases a system’s ability to absorb shocks. If one part breaks, the whole machine does not freeze. But in “Khamenei’s Islamic Republic,” what has been stripped away is precisely what a system needs to endure. Even before the war and the massacre—when the biggest risk was the succession crisis—people inside the system said: “the Leader will manage succession himself.” Meaning: Khamenei will even manage his own death and decide who sits in his chair. Why? Because no one else truly holds power. That was the Islamic Republic before the 12-day war in June 2025 and the massacre in January 2026. After those months, the question of Khamenei’s death no longer belongs to him. In a normal scenario—death by illness, no acute crisis—a dictator can try to stage-manage succession. But in a permanent emergency, succession planning turns into panic: even routine military signals—changes in flight patterns, the sudden emptying of a base, the movement of a carrier—are interpreted as warnings that an external operation is underway and that Khamenei could be targeted at any moment. That is why everyone—even senior officials—talks about Khamenei dying, or thinks about it. Not his natural death, but when, where, and how he might be killed. A system that has moved by the will of one man is terrified that he could vanish in a moment. If Khamenei is killed, what will the system do? A leadership class that cannot lead without him The heads of the branches function less like autonomous officials and more like the Supreme Leader’s managers. They are not positioned to execute an independent “survival strategy” for the political system. They neither have the capacity nor know what to do. Their eyes remain fixed on the Leader’s mouth. Is that an exaggeration? Look at Pezeshkian’s government—its positions during and after the protests, its performance, its weakness. The state has reached a point where the presence or absence of a president and cabinet barely changes anything. What does it matter whether there is an oil minister when oil is sold through smuggling networks run by the Supreme Leader’s trusted men—stage-managed by the IRGC and its intelligence apparatus? Khamenei decides where the money goes. The oil minister—who should be central in any normal state—has little control over production, sales, or distribution. We do not know what Khamenei’s ultimate fate will be. And, in a sense, it does not matter. He has done everything he could. The result is in front of us. The question is what becomes of “Khamenei’s Islamic Republic” without Khamenei—whether that absence comes through an enemy’s bullet, or through death in old age. One thing is clear: the Islamic Republic as we know it is not prepared to survive in a world without Khamenei.

Mass Killing, Then Panic: The Islamic Republic’s Post-Crackdown Crisis #IranUprising #MassKilling

Iran has been fighting Islamic Colonization for 14 centuries. If you can’t stand alongside us in this fight, step out of our way.

#FreeIran #IranUprising #DigitalBlackout
#Islamotrauma #WomanLifeFreedom

Words fail me. Just like the world did. 💚🕊️❤️‍🩹
#IranUprising #FreeIran

Don’t look away.
#FreeIran #IranUprising #DigitalBlackout

Despite freezing temperatures, Iranians in #Toronto rallied in solidarity with the #IranUprising — honoring its martyrs, singing revolutionary anthems, and vowing to continue their struggle until the mullahs’ dictatorship is overthrown.

#Iran
#IranMassacre
#IranRevolution2026

Iran is now effectively the biggest open air prison on the planet with 92 million prisoners.

The *50,000 arrested by the Regime are Regime numbers.

#FreeIran #IranUprising #DigitalBlackout #WomanLifeFreedom

Call it what it is. Betrayal.
#IranUprising #FreeIran
#DigitalBlackout

youtu.be/vFnmXMRUc-8#... #iranianrevolution #iranazadi #iranuprising #iranianuprising #iranprotest #iranprotests #iranfight #fightforiran #fight4iran #trumpiran #iranianfreedommovement #irandemonstration #iranrally #persiafreedom #persianfreedom #iran2026 #iranian2026 #irandemonstrations

"The protests listed on the poster are not the whole story, they are only glimpses of a much longer, generational fight for freedom."

#RominaZabihian
#iran #iranprotests #iranrevolution #womanlifefreedom #jinjiyanazafi #freeiran #middleeast #humanrights #mahsaamini #iranuprising

Say Erfan Soltani’s name. Let the world know him. The Regime will execute him without hesitation.

#ErfanSoltani #FreeIran
#IranUprising #DigitalBlackout
#WomanLifeFreedom

12,000 to 20,000 are estimated to have been murdered by the Islamic Regime in Iran. I would love burn one of these in Iran, too.
#IranUprising

Declaring your allegiance to the genocidal mass murderer who’s been slaughtering my people is NOT the flex you think it is. This is the moment in history when lines are drawn in the sand. Pick a side because we are at war.

#FreeIran #IranUprising

🚨 “Final Days of Iran’s Regime?” Germany’s chancellor says Iran’s rulers are living on borrowed time. Economy in freefall, mass protests raging, power held only by force. History’s rule: regimes that survive on bullets don’t survive long. ⏳💥 #IranCollapse #EndOfRegime #IranUprising #Below3Seconds

🚨 Final Days of Iran’s Regime?

Germany’s chancellor says Iran’s rulers are living on borrowed time. Economy in freefall, mass protests raging, power held only by force. History’s rule: regimes that survive on bullets don’t survive long. ⏳💥

#IranCollapse #EndOfRegime #IranUprising #Below3Seconds

of fighting for the most basic human rights. My people are getting slaughtered on the streets as some of you pontificate. Amplify their voices instead of injecting your own narrative./3

#FreeIran #IranUprising
#WomanLifeFreedom forever