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“They shot our closest friends. How many people were killed? Two or three thousand? Maybe more – we don’t know.
“All we know is we’re going to overthrow them and bring back our king. With one eye in the sky hoping Trump will come to our aid. Do you think they will? Will they strike?”
The message was sent via Starlink satellite internet from Tehran by Ehsan, a young protester and supporter of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. independent persian. Monday morning.
He is just one of hundreds of thousands of people in Iran who have taken to the streets hoping to overthrow the Ayatollah’s regime.
Ehsan described “extremely harsh and painful” conditions, with security forces using military weapons and engaging in sustained live rounds against civilians.
Still, he said people were determined to continue demonstrating and push forward with what he called a national uprising.
He said opponents he had contacted in Tehran and other cities no longer intended to retreat and were prepared to overthrow the regime “to the end”, despite the high cost.
Mobina, a 33-year-old woman in Tehran told us independent persian: “You cut off our internet and phone lines? We will send you to hell. We have nothing left to lose.”
“Until this murderous, looting system collapses, we take to the streets every night. You have no idea how many crowds fill Tehran’s neighborhoods every night, chanting ‘Long Live the King,’ and filling the hearts of ‘Rat Ali’ with fear.” [a derogatory nickname for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei]. They have killed thousands of us, but left us not a shred of fear.
“Videos from Iran barely getting through Starlink during this total internet blackout isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. Even our Starlink connections are constantly being interrupted and speeds are drastically slowed down by the interference they’re sending. Can’t Elon Musk do something? Where’s Trump?”
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in all messages sent to independent persian Since Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi publicly called for protests and sweeping internet shutdowns on Thursday, people have repeatedly stressed that they are waiting for Donald Trump’s pledge of military support to materialize.
“This is no longer a protest but a war,” Amir Hussein, a 35-year-old private sector employee from the holy city of Mashhad in the northeast of the country, said in a message sent on Sunday evening.
“Security forces opened fire directly. No warning shots were fired, no announcements were made. The wounded were taken away on motorcycles and private vehicles because ambulances either did not arrive or were filled with security forces.
|Despite this, no one backed down. Mashhad – which they used to call the city of “Alam-ol-Hoda” (Iran’s senior cleric) – now boils with opposition to the regime every night. We know this is the final push: victory or destruction. “
In Shiraz, Sara, a 28-year-old university student, said: “The city feels under siege, but people have learned how to gather, shout and disperse. The fear is gone.”
“Everyone knew that if we retreated now, we wouldn’t have another chance. When the prince’s messages came over the satellite channels, they kept giving us hope. It was the first time we felt truly seen. The words in the prince’s last message about foreign aid coming were like a morale bomb. We just hoped they would help soon so there would be fewer casualties.”
As street protests expand, evidence on the ground suggests that the current national uprising has entered a new and decisive phase.
according to independent persians Nationwide internet outages, mobile network disruptions and even widespread disruption to the Starlink satellite network did not stop people from taking to the streets, sources said. Instead, they led to more aggressive slogans and more violent conflicts.
Many protesters said the communications blackout was the regime’s last resort to conceal the true scale of the protests – a scale they said was now “unmanageable”.
On Sunday night, the fourth night of public calls by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, reports and videos showed large crowds gathering in at least ten neighborhoods of Tehran and in the cities of Isfahan, Najafabad, Foradshahr, Yazd, Tabriz, Shiraz, Hamadan, Shah Sabar (Tonka State), Kermanshah, Sari, Rasht and Astara.
Slogans such as “This is the last battle, Pahlavi will return” and “Long live the king” remain among the most compelling.
Meanwhile, the government is trying to disrupt the flow of information by cutting off all internet and phone services. Sources in multiple cities revealed independent persian Severe Starlink outages have so far prevented them from sending reports, but stressed that “street presence continues.”
In this context, the news released by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi earlier on Monday was seen as a turning point. Citing calls that millions of people have recently responded to, he spoke of the beginning of “another phase” of the national uprising – one in which the institutions responsible for regime propaganda and communications blackouts are seen as “legitimate targets” by the people.
This statement triggered widespread reactions in Iran and abroad. Many protesters interpreted this as a sign that the movement had moved from protest to a phase of direct pressure and power seizure.
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi also presented members of the armed forces and state employees with a stark choice: either stand with the people or with the “executors of the state.”
This part of his information and the reports he received were closely watched by military and security agencies, according to people familiar with the matter. independent persian Security forces suffer from declining morale and fatigue.
These domestic developments coincide with escalating international rhetoric. U.S. President Trump’s recent remarks, saying that the Iranian government had crossed a “red line” and people who should not have been killed were killed, quickly resonated with protesters in Iran.
Trump said he and the U.S. military were watching the situation closely and that there were very strong options on the table – a warning that many protesters saw as a shift in the balance in their favor.
The crown prince held a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, saying the regime would soon fall and pledging to return to his homeland.
“The regime has reached its final stretch and is about to collapse,” he told reporters. “In the face of this brutal regime, the international community must act now. We need help.”
reviewer Tuba Hoka and Celine Assaf