Key Highlights
- Beginning Dec.
- 28, the protests erupted amid deep public anger over political repression, economic hardship and state violence before rapidly expanding nationwide.
- LINDSEY GRAHAM SPEAKS AGAINST PENDING EXECUTION OF 26-YEAR-OLD IRANIAN PROTESTER: 'THIS REGIME MUST FALL' Iranian demonstrators gather in a street during a protest over the collapse of the currency's value, in Tehran, Iran, on Jan.
- 8, 2026.
- (Stringer/WANA/Reuters) "The sedition is over now," Iran’s prosecutor general Mohammad Movahedi said, according to the judiciary’s Mizan News Agency."And we must be grateful, as always, to the people who extinguished this sedition by being in the field in a timely manner," he added, according to the New York Times.
