What's happening in Iran
A comprehensive timeline of the ongoing crisis. This is not just about economics—it's about 47 years of tyranny, oppression, and dictatorship. The people are fighting for their freedom.
Timeline of Events
Pressure Cooker
Currency instability accelerates. Prices spike. Public anxiety rises. But the grievances run deeper—47 years of tyranny, oppression, and dictatorship. The people have had enough.
Protest Wave Begins
First visible flashpoint: protests, closures, and strikes. While economic concerns spark the movement, anti-regime slogans and calls for freedom dominate. This is about ending the dictatorship.
Rapid Spread
Protests spread across multiple cities. Early reports of arrests. First reports of deaths and injuries. Security forces begin heavy deployment.
Trump's Warning
President Trump posts on Truth Social: "The United States Military is ready, willing and more able than ever before, should its services be needed with respect to the terrorist regime in Iran." A clear signal of potential intervention.
Crackdown Intensifies
Nightly protests become the pattern. Security response escalates with lethal force and mass detentions. Thousands are killed. Tens of thousands injured. State narrative blames 'foreign-instigated unrest.'
Crown Prince Calls for Unity
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi—son of Iran's last king, Mohammad Reza Shah—issues a widely circulated call for coordinated action: timed chanting and protests, framing it as a test of mobilization and national unity.
Internet Blackout Hits
Internet restrictions surge into an extreme nationwide disruption. Near-total connectivity collapse for 90 million people. Purpose: reduce coordination, limit video evidence, hide the killing from the world.
Adaptation Under Blackout
Protesters adapt with decentralized actions, neighborhood-based coordination, analog tactics (word-of-mouth, flyers), and timed chants from homes and balconies at 8PM nightly.
International Spotlight
U.S. messaging intensifies with public statements supporting protesters' rights and direct warnings to the regime. International community begins to mobilize pressure.
Resistance Continues
Protest strategy shifts to targeted local protests, work stoppages, strikes, symbolic actions. Despite brutal crackdown, the people persist. The fight for freedom continues.
Four Fronts
Street
Regime Response
Technology
International
The Human Cost
Thousands
Killed by the regime
Tens of Thousands
Injured in crackdown
90M
Cut off from the world
47
Years of oppression
8PM
Nightly chants from rooftops
Jan 8
Total blackout began
Why regime change is the answer
The Islamic Republic cannot be reformed. For 47 years, it has responded to every call for change with violence. Internet blackouts, mass killings, torture, and executions are not aberrations—they are how this regime operates.
International pressure can save lives in the short term. But lasting peace and freedom for Iran require the removal of the Islamic Republic. The Iranian people have made this clear: they want regime change, not regime reform.
Your government can help by imposing strong sanctions on regime officials, supporting the Iranian diaspora, and making clear that the international community will not accept the Islamic Republic's continued existence.