Since December 28, mass mobilizations have taken place across 90 cities in Iran, which
\nhave spread to all capitals of the country’s 31 provinces.
\nThe abrupt devaluation of the currency (Rial) reached 84% in one year, combined with
\nsanctions and the fall in oil exports (which went from 2 million to 300 thousand barrels in
\njust 8 years) generated an unbearable economic situation for workers and people in
\ngeneral. The announcements of subsidies and tax relief are not enough to cover up the
\ncorruption and squandering of wealth by the Iranian regime’s leadership. The combination
\nof these factors with the distrust that the regime is going to fundamentally change the
\nterrible living situation of the population, has generated an explosive situation.
\nDespite the efforts of the regime and its allies, to present these mobilizations as promoted
\nby the CIA and Israel, even the president of Iran himself recognized that the reason is the
\neconomic situation, and that the demands are just and promised not to repress the
\npeaceful mobilizations.
\nDespite this, these mobilizations against hunger and the Ayatollahs dictatorship, led
\nmainly by young people (“generation Z” in action again), have been violently repressed
\ncausing already around 217 deaths (many of them minors) and thousands of arrests. The
\ngovernment, in its attempt to isolate them, has cut off the Internet and phone service.
\nRepression does not occur only during demonstrations. Amnesty International has
\ndenounced that: “Security forces have arbitrarily detained hundreds of protesters, some as
\nyoung as 14, during the dispersal of protests and in night-time raids on homes. Some of
\nthese people were taken out of hospitals. The authorities have subjected many people to
\nenforced disappearance and incommunicado detention, which poses a risk of torture and
\nother ill-treatment. The authorities have already issued coerced “confessions” of detainees
\nin the media. On January 5, 2026, Tasnim News, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary
\nGuards, issued “confessions” from an 18-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl, accusing
\nthem of “leading riots.”
\nDespite this, the mobilizations are growing day by day in size and firmness. They have faced
\nrepression, destroyed surveillance cameras, set up barricades and pickets in the heart of
\nTehran. In several cities they have taken over and set fire to government buildings and even
\nthe Al-Rasool mosque (one of the most important in Iran) demonstrating their anger and
\nfighting capacity.<\/p>\n
Trump, Netanyahu and Reza Pahlavi, (last “Shah\u2019s\u201d son), are trying to take advantage<\/strong> These large mobilizations are not promoted by the CIA, as the Iranian regime denounces. Support for the Iranian masses in their struggle for their living conditions and against<\/strong> For an end to the repression!<\/strong><\/p>\n Freedom for all political prisoners!<\/strong><\/p>\n No to the death penalty, announced by the Iranian regime!<\/strong><\/p>\n Trial and punishment of those responsible for the murders of protesters!<\/strong><\/p>\n Trump, Netanyahu and Reza Pahlavi: Hands off Iran!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since December 28, mass mobilizations have taken place across 90 cities in Iran, which have spread to all capitals of the country’s 31 provinces. The abrupt devaluation of the currency (Rial) reached 84% in one year, combined with sanctions and the fall in oil exports (which went from 2 million to 300 thousand barrels in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[89],"coauthors":[96],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-en","tag-cirs-sections","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nof the situation<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThey are driven by hunger and hatred of that religious dictatorship. It is not the first time this
\nregime has faced massive mobilizations, nor is it the first time it has violently repressed
\nthem. In 2022, another large mass movement confronted the dictatorship after the death of
\nMahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman arrested by the “morality police” for not wearing the veil
\ncorrectly. That great movement was defeated with bloody repression.
\nWhat surely happens is that, as in all great mass expressions, imperialism puts its hand in
\nit. Lenin stated that, in the February 1917 revolution in Russia, British imperialism was
\ninvolved because it was in its interest that the Tsar be replaced by a more reliable bourgeois
\nsector. That did not mean that it ceased to be a workers’ revolution that revolutionaries had
\nto support.
\nSurely these large mobilizations must be infiltrated by CIA agents, the Mossad, by followers
\nof Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah of Iran, dethroned by the great revolution of 1979,
\nwho is calling for US intervention.
\nTrump, like the British empire in 1917, is interested in the replacement of the ayatollahs by
\na more reliable bourgeoisie, he wants to ride the wave of this great mobilization. Thus, we
\nsee that those who support Netanyahu in the Gaza genocide, who did nothing in the face of
\nthe 68,000 Palestinian deaths and who have just caused 100 deaths in Venezuela, now say
\nthat they will intervene if Iranian repression causes deaths. No one should believe the
\nalleged and hypocritical defense of human rights by that murderer.
\nWe must denounce these attempts by U.S. imperialism and its supporters. None of this
\ncan stop revolutionaries from supporting the struggle of the Iranian masses for their living
\nconditions and against a bloody dictatorship.
\nIt is striking that most leftist organizations are not speaking out in the face of these facts.
\nThis is probably due to the fear that these mobilizations, of an insurrectionary nature, might
\nend up strengthening the counterrevolution. That danger exists, and it has been expressed
\nin many revolutionary processes, but we must keep in mind that the counterrevolution is
\nnot only in Trump, but also in the Iranian dictatorship. This insurrectional process of the
\nmasses objectively confronts the counterrevolution. Supporting it, helping its development
\nby denouncing the enemy forces that infiltrate it, is the only way to expect a positive
\nsolution in this revolution-counterrevolution confrontation.
\nIt is essential that the struggle of the Iranian people to free themselves from the dictatorial
\nand starving regime of the Ayatollahs, does not fall into the clutches of imperialism and monarchy. We must support the Iranian workers and people to take their destiny into their own hands, implementing a revolutionary socialist state to end hunger and plunder, and be a true ally of the struggles of the peoples of Asia and the whole world.<\/p>\n
\nthe dictatorship!<\/strong><\/p>\n