The uprising that began on the December 27, 2025 in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar has now entered its fourteenth day and is advancing with strength across cities throughout Iran. People in large and small towns alike have taken to the streets, determined to free themselves, once and for all, from the nightmare of the Islamic Republic. In response, the authorities have resorted to every tactic at their disposal: intimidation, violence, live ammunition, the killing of young people, and even attempts to divert or manipulate the movement’s slogans, all in an effort to stop this great popular uprising.

This revolt is a continuation of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and of more than four decades of struggle by those who have fought for liberty. While it began as a protest against soaring prices and crushing inflation, it quickly made its core demand unmistakably clear: the overthrow of the ruling regime. This comes at a time when people’s livelihoods are in collapse, basic freedoms are brutally suppressed, the environment is in a state of catastrophe, and countless other crises have reached their most severe levels, while the government has proven utterly incapable of offering solutions to any of them.

To breathe clean air again, to reverse the widespread destruction of the environment in all its forms (water shortages and contamination, air pollution, drying lakes, devastated forests, land subsidence, the waste crisis, and many other urgent ecological disasters) and to achieve democracy and freedom, the entire current regime must be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Green Party of Iran

January 20, 2026