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Sun 04 Jan 2026 7:23 pm - Jerusalem Time

Iran Protests Break Fear Barrier to Overthrow Mullahs' Regime

By: Christine Hanna Nasr

By: Christine Hanna Nasr

Opinion Writer

The new year began with changes for the Iranian people, and the pace of popular demonstrations has been expanding day by day. The main and primary reasons for this are the rising cost of living, the worsening water scarcity problems in Iranian cities, as well as the increase in inflation and the sharp collapse of the currency against the American dollar, and the country's entry into a crisis and a rapid collapse of the Iranian economy.

Millions of citizens are demonstrating in the streets of Iranian cities. The first blow started from the Iranian capital, and the clock stopped for the old regime, and Iran entered a new phase in its history titled the radical new change coming to the Iranian scene, and the ruling class entering a dead end where the power of the mullahs is diminishing day by day in parallel with the increasing intensity of the angry people's demonstrations in the streets of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the huge high arrogant wall of suppressing the people is cracking, its prestige falls, and with it the people's fear is gradually overcome, erasing the shadows of the terrifying past, and the demonstrators' revolutions intensify, and their voices rise in the streets to enter a new phase and a strong start for the people and the demonstrators, expanding to the rest of the Iranian cities, and the revolutionaries' voice is heard as they chant for Shah Reza Pahlavi and strive to cling to the past to save them from the tyrant's rule and give them hope to continue strongly. The phase of silence has ended, and the elements of the ruling past symbols are falling day by day with the intensity of the demonstrations, and Iran enters a new phase with the strong voice of the people  which scatters the high repressive wall, and the angry people begin to break all barriers of fear and strive to get rid of the ruling mullahs' dictatorship starting from Tehran to Isfahan, expanding to Khuzestan and to the city of Mashhad and to the rest of the Iranian cities where the echo of the high voices of the demonstrators resonates, and with determination to overthrow this ruling system, and here the fear of the past turns into the strength of the Iranian people's anger, united strongly emanating from the bazaar merchants to the university students, and from everywhere pictures of Khamenei are burning, and with it the prestige of the regime's symbols is being erased day by day with the continuation of the demonstrations in parallel with the beginning of the new year that heralds relief for the Iranian people, asserting these demonstrations " Khamenei will fall and the Shah of Iran will return "  The nightmare of the 1979 regime has returned strongly, but the situations have reversed and changed in the 2026 new year demonstrations, and the roles have changed in it for the past revolution that overthrew the Shah's rule in 1979 from Khamenei coming from Paris and now the son of the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi from exile supporting the people in these revolutionary demonstrations from abroad to overthrow the ruling mullahs' regime, and on the other hand, President Trump threatens the mullahs' regime with intervention to protect the Iranian people if the demonstrators are suppressed or killed in a brutal way as happened in the past, as the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei responded to the statements of the American President Trump " We will not submit to the enemy " and " We will triumph and defeat the enemy " as some officials stated that if America exceeds Iran's sovereignty and intervenes in the Iranian internal home, its response will be harsh  ,  It appears from the current developments and data that this regime will inevitably fall without any intervention from President Donald Trump because the people are determined and assertive to overthrow the current Iranian regime  where the pace of events accelerates, government buildings and police centers in several cities are burning, and the Shah in exile adds fuel to the fire, and his public appearance declaring support for the demonstrators stating " The final victory is ours " is considered an indicator of gathering himself with this group, and notably, the economic advisors of the current regime have submitted their resignations and distanced themselves from the scene, and on the other hand, Iran's allies like Russia are preoccupied with their problems and their current war with Ukraine, and it is difficult to intervene to save their ally from its people, and while China has remained silent and has not made any statement to support its ally Iran  , and since the outbreak of the demonstrations and the economic crisis, the rescue of the current regime from falling seems impossible, it seems that there is no one to save what can be saved and leave it destined to fall in this sensitive and difficult phase it is going through.

I believe that things have reached the explosion and the point of no return, and the demonstrators' voices are chanting everywhere " Enough is enough " and here specifically Iran enters the new era born from the womb of the angry people who may triumph over the dictatorship and the mullahs' regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and what increased the people's revolution and anger was Bazargan's statement when he admitted that the state treasury is empty and they are not able to distribute to the people as in the past, igniting the volcano of the demonstrators, especially for the bazaar merchants who closed their shops and joined the revolution for the overwhelming demonstrations supported by university students, and recently people joined chanting collectively " No to Gaza and no to Lebanon, let my life be sacrificed for Iran " criticizing the foreign policy of the mullahs' regime that supported proxy wars in the Middle East and unlimited financial support for arming its militias and armed parties, especially in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen at the expense of the Iranian people who are suffering economically, and instead of spending on its people, it supported and backed the Syrian Ba'ath regime for the deceased Bashar al-Assad with billions of dollars that unfortunately were not repaid, these amounts were spent to destroy and kill the peoples of the Arab East countries in the wars supported by Iran in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, and the Iranian people's situation is deteriorating where inflation has reached 41% as basic food commodities have risen by 70% with the deterioration of the Iranian rial, and unfortunately the Iranian citizen works for a full month in Iran to earn only an amount equivalent to one gram of gold, after 47 years of the mullahs' rule over Iran resulting in a collapsed economy, an empty state treasury meaning no money for the people, increasing administrative corruption, and worsening water scarcity, and Ayatollah Khamenei has been hiding for days, and the rule and its institutions are burning at the hands of the determined demonstrators to overthrow the regime, chanting at the top of their voices to overthrow it, and at Mashhad University the students chant " We prefer death over the situation we live in " it seems that the people's current battle intends to overthrow the  mullahs' regime, where Shah Reza Pahlavi breaks the silence and addresses the demonstrators yesterday from his exile in America calling on the army and security forces to defect from the rule and support the people in this revolution before it's too late, asserting that this regime will inevitably fall, and in contrast, the regime is collapsing day by day, and the security forces are dissolving in the face of the people's anger, fleeing from their burning cars, it is clear that the people have broken through and overcome the fear barrier, and this heralds the continuation of the demonstrations and the possibility of success of this popular revolution to overthrow the regime, especially when the army unites with the people and they defect together to shake the foundations of the rule and overthrow it, as the Shah's appearance and his public declaration of support for the popular revolution gives them the strength to continue and succeed in their revolution  .

The coming days are full of developments, and the Iranian street is burning and scorching on a hot plate, and all indicators point to the advancement of the demonstrations and their intensification to strive for success in overthrowing the mullahs' regime, and there are fears of the situation deteriorating into a civil war, and if this revolution succeeds in overthrowing the regime, it will inevitably lead to relief for the Arab East countries as well, especially from Iranian dominance over the joints and sovereignty of countries like Iraq and Lebanon in particular, and helping them to eliminate the weapon of the factions and parties loyal and supported by Iran, where the material and moral support for them will stop upon the fall of the mullahs' regime, as it will help to settle  the weapon only in the hands of the army, and the Arab East countries regain their sovereignty dominated by Iran, their strength, and impose their sovereignty and restore their resources and assets, and this will inevitably produce a new government in Iraq not loyal to Iran and enter a new phase  titled imposing the state's sovereignty and the army, and on its sovereign political decision, and Lebanon and Iraq get rid of and become independent from Iranian hegemony over them.

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Iran Protests Break Fear Barrier to Overthrow Mullahs' Regime

lisa 5 months ago

أصفهان - إيران، الجمهوريّة الإسلاميّة الإيرانيّة 🇮🇷

אני אזרח ישראלי.השתיקו אותנו עד כדי כך שאנחנו אפילו לא יכולים לחשוף את עמדתנו האמיתית בתגובות ונאלצים להשתמש בעמדות של מדינות אחרות כדי שהממשלה לא תגלה.

lisa 5 months ago

أصفهان - إيران، الجمهوريّة الإسلاميّة الإيرانيّة 🇮🇷

כל זה שקר. אתם מדברים על המצב באיראן בלי לדעת, אבל אני אזרחית ישראלית ואני מדברת על המצב במדינה שלי בידע. המצב הכלכלי כאן גרוע. נתניהו לא יכול לנצח את חמאס, שלא לדבר

lisa 5 months ago

أصفهان - إيران، الجمهوريّة الإسلاميّة الإيرانيّة 🇮🇷

כל זה שקר. אתם מדברים על המצב באיראן בלי לדעת, אבל אני אזרחית ישראלית ואני מדברת על המצב במדינה שלי בידע. המצב הכלכלי כאן גרוע. נתניהו לא יכול לנצח את חמאס, שלא לדבר

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