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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday said authorities “must break the back of the seditionists” and blamed US President Donald Trump for “casualties” after the Islamic Republic’s bloody crackdown on a protest wave against the country’s clerical authorities. Iranian authorities have repeatedly blamed the US for the mass demonstrations they have called “riots” and “terrorist” operations. Trump had threatened to strike Iran if it did not stop killing protesters, but starting Wednesday sounded a more conciliatory tone, saying he was assured the killings would stop. In a speech broadcast by state television to mark a religious holiday, Khamenei...

Iranian women have been defiantly lighting cigarettes with burning images of supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Smoking in women is seriously frowned upon in the Middle Eastern nation, while setting pictures of the country's leader on fire is against the law - making the move a bold act of protest. Videos and pictures showing women lighting their cigarettes with burning images of Khamenei have been trending on social media, with viewers hailing their resistance to state authority and social controls. In several images, the female protesters are also shown not wearing a hijab despite it being a mandatory requirement in Iran...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Violent rioters favoring monarchy vandalized public and private properties in a number of cities across Iran on Thursday night, inflicting injuries on ordinary people and security forces. The violent unrest that erupted in a number of Iranian cities on Thursday night caused damages to the government buildings, private shops, and even mosques. The rioters backing monarchy vandalized public properties, blocked streets, attacked the administrative buildings and Police stations, and injured a number of security and law enforcement forces. In remarks on Friday morning, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the vandals have destroyed...

After a night with lots of bloodshed, it appears that the IRGC military are backing down. The Iranian demonstrators have taken over the streets in major cities again.

Protests against the Islamic regime in Iran continued early Saturday morning, amid a reported deadly crackdown on demonstrators. TIME magazine cited a Tehran doctor speaking on condition of anonymity that just six hospitals in the capital recorded at least 217 killed protesters, “most by live ammunition.” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier in the day slammed the protesters as foreign-influenced agitators, dismissing U.S. President Donald Trump as having hands “stained with the blood of Iranians.” State media later referred to the demonstrators as “terrorists,” setting the stage for a violent crackdown as in other protests in recent years. Protesters are...

Summary More anti-government protests erupt in Iran for a 13th day in a row, as the country's supreme leader lashes out at people demonstrating on the streets Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has ultimate power in Iran, dismisses protesters as "a bunch of vandals" trying to "please" US President Donald Trump, who threatened to "hit" Iran "very hard" if government forces kill protesters The protests, which began in Tehran on 28 December, were sparked by the collapse of the Iranian currency - BBC Verify is mapping their spread "People are becoming bolder now," one 29-year-old tells the BBC: "I went to...

The ongoing anti-regime protests in Iran escalated sharply on January 6, 2026, after the city of Abdanan in Ilam province reportedly fell under the control of protesters and rebellious youths. Large crowds took over the streets as security forces struggled to maintain control, marking what activists describe as the first Iranian city effectively seized during the ongoing uprising. According to reports, Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) units attempted to confront demonstrators in Abdanan but were met with resistance from protesters. During the clashes, the Ofogh Kourosh chain store, described as being owned by the IRGC, was set on fire. Security personnel and...

Iran’s protest slogans have shifted from reformist appeals in the 2009 Green Movement demonstrations to more prominent calls to reinstate the monarchy ousted in 1979, transcending Tehran's central political divide between moderates and hardliners. In 2009, many demonstrators chanted “Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein,” framing a disputed election in the language of religious legitimacy and around Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister who challenged the vote. Sixteen years later, clips shared from protests and even holiday gatherings at historic sites suggest that a growing share of Iran’s street chant repertoire has shifted to a different refrain: “This is the last...

Iran has been gripped by demonstrations amid the country's economic crisis, with social discontent fueling open protest against the regime. Media and authorities have pinned the blame on foreign intelligence services. Thousands of people have protested in Iran in recent days against the dramatic devaluation of the currency, amid an economic crisis that has engulfed the country. What began as a strike by shopkeepers and bazaar merchants on Sunday has become an outcry of political anger, with some even chanting "Death to the dictator!" The spontaneous protests have already spread from Tehran to other cities, such as Isfahan and Mashhad.

Protests in Mexico have absolutely exploded over the weekend and heading into Monday, as large (and violent) crowds are growing and honing in on Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. The situation is undeniably now at revolutionary levels. See for yourself right here: MANY VIDEOS AT LINK............................. 🟢 Mexico Erupts In Revolution, President Claudia Sheinbaum Targeted For Removal Her time in office is being referred to as a “reign of terror”. The core of the people’s dissatisfaction is that she is allegedly working for the cartels, not the people: Here is Fox News confirming the cartel runs her Government: Sheinbaum said a...

Cult coffee chain Starbucks has sparked uproar among Gen Z workers after drastically changing their uniform. In a video posted to X, Starbucks union workers in Seattle can be seen marching on management in response to the new dress code. The clip was captioned, “Starbucks workers across the country are facing understaffing, inaccessible benefits, discrimination, and low wages. “Instead of fixing these issues, Starbucks decided to introduce an unpopular, more conservative dress code.” A barista wearing a bandana and a party hat can be seen addressing management, saying, “I don’t understand how [the dress code] is in good faith of...

The Trump administration, pushed by the Department of Government Efficiency and deployed by the Office of Personnel Management, has sent another email to all federal employees with a normal request to present five tasks accomplished in the last week. It’s an easy task. It takes 5 minutes. In the service industry, this is entirely normal, even routine. Taking inventory of the workforce is standard for any new management in the private sector. Oddly, absolute mania broke out among the pundit class. Government unions are preparing lawsuits. The panic and frenzy is palpable. As it turns out, no new president has...

No words exist in the English language to express the magnitude of government fiscal fraud that has happened. It has to be in the trillions. While almost all of us worked for many years and paid close to half of our funds to taxes of all kinds, individuals in government have stolen our money and given to anyone and everyone (especially those who hate God and righteousness) in large amounts while giving us a drop on our tongues and THEN taxing even that. We have been literally enslaved by the IRS, tax assessor-collectors, sales tax departments of the states, etc....

Tell us something we didn't already know! (Yes, I'm stealing from paying homage to Wizard of Id. Sue me, peasants!)The first effects of a Democrat adjustment to their crushing loss in the presidential election may come in the chamber where they actually managed to hold serve. The New York Times reports that backbenchers may give their entrenched leadership the heave-ho in the next session of Congress to muscle up for the first two years of the Donald Trump restoration. House Judiciary chair Jerrold Nadler is their first target, but not their last:House Democrats are considering pushing aside some of their...

We weren’t exactly surprised by the study that found that extreme Diversity, Equity and Inclusion “training” actually increases racism — nor that The New York Times opted against reporting on it. The Gray Lady, after all, increasingly sees perfectly valid news that upsets its woke staffers as not fit to print. The latest is the study released Monday by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, which found that “some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of...

Running around a bit today and to show you more election prepartions underway in Washington today, including a new heavily spiked fence going up in the White House complex, surrounding the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (where the President and Vice President's staff have offices). We also see Marine One depart, but barely saw Biden as he seemed to be in a hurry. PenguinSix is an apolitical guy in a political town who likes to walk a lot. He has hiked over 17,000 miles (27,000kms) in the past six years and is still walking today. He is an American expat who...

President Joe Biden is backing an internal revolt within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over the fate of postwar Gaza, after defense minister Yoav Gallant publicly declared his opposition to long-term Israeli rule there. Gallant made an unexpected televised address in which he stated that he was opposed to Israeli military rule or civilian rule in Gaza after Hamas, and preferred rule by non-terrorist Palestinians with help from Arab states.

A backlash looms for President Biden on Super Tuesday, when at least half of the states participating in presidential contests have an “uncommitted” line on their ballot – potentially allowing this week’s far-left voter revolt in Michigan to snowball, experts told The Post. Activists who launched the successful Michigan campaign have their sights on a slew of Super Tuesday primaries next week, including Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Maine and Alabama — all of which have “uncommitted” or write-in slots on their Dem primary ballots. “Biden is not going to duplicate his 2020 coalition,” said veteran Dem strategist...

The controversial ultra-low emission zone was expanded to cover the whole of Greater London this week. Now, the Metropolitan Police has revealed the force received 159 reports of ULEZ cameras being stolen and 351 reports of cameras being damaged between April and August. More than 500 crimes relating to stealing and damaging ULEZ cameras have been committed in the last five months, the Metropolitan Police have revealed. A crime can include more than one offence and the number has almost doubled in the past month because by 1 August, the Met had recorded 288 crimes. The ULEZ was expanded to...

Human urine as the new environmental and climate boogeyman is just the latest scare to get you to stop eating meat. Now when you pee, you are allegedly a human pollution machine that is heating up the planet. The voiding of your bladder must be curtailed for the sake of the planet! So says ‘The Science’! The last several years have seen endless emergency declarations, wars, massive government spending, debt, runaway inflation, supply chain issues, increases in crime, food shortages, no privacy from Big Brother-style government and corporate snooping, skyrocketing energy prices that chip away at car and home ownership,...