Nationwide Uprising- No. 19
Nightly demonstrations and hit-and-run clashes, with chants of ‘Death to Khamenei,’ erupt in Tehran and other cities. Strikes hit Tehran’s Bazaar, armed clashes are reported in Nurabad Mamasani, and funerals for martyrs are held in Hafshejan, Kuhdasht, and Malekshahi.
On the evening of Sunday, January 4, 2026, the eighth day of the nationwide uprising, Tehran and many other cities witnessed intense demonstrations and clashes between rebellious youths and suppressive forces. The uprising has now spread to 107 cities across Iran in the past eight days.
Despite a high alert by military, state security, and intelligence forces in Tehran, residents protested in various parts of the city, including Jomhouri, Moshiriyeh, Sadeghieh, Narmak (Haft Hoz), Tehransar, Valiasr Town, Jannat Abad, Chaharrah-e Sirous, and other central streets, chanting ‘Death to Khamenei’.
On Sunday morning, security forces used tear gas and pellet guns against protesting merchants and shopkeepers on Saadi and Hafez streets and around the Alaeddin and Charsou passages. Defiant youths resisted the raid by setting fire to trash bins and creating roadblocks. In Molavi Street, regime agents opened fire on demonstrating curtain sellers. At Tarbiat Modares University and the dormitories of Khajeh Nasir University, students chanted, ‘This nation will not be a nation until the mullahs are buried.’ Clashes between students and suppressive forces continued late into the night. Students at Tarbiat Modares in Tehran and Birjand vowed to continue the uprising with chants of ‘Basiji, IRGC, you are our ISIS’.
In Kermanshah, citizens protesting on Jafarabad and Shariati streets chanted ‘Death to the dictator, death to Khamenei’ and forced police to flee.
In Nurabad Mamasani (Fars province), demonstrations escalated into armed confrontations with regime agents, with hit-and-run clashes ongoing in the streets. In Isfahan, defiant youths clashed with suppressive forces at Si-o-Se-Pol, Khaju Bridge, and Chaharbagh, setting their vehicles on fire. In Fuladshahr, Isfahan, brave youths confronted police forces who were firing on protesters. The regime, fearing the spread of the student uprising, shut down Isfahan University of Technology for nine days.
In Malekshahi, Ilam province, a large crowd attended the funeral of three martyrs at the city’s cemetery, chanting: ‘I will kill, I will kill the one who killed my brother’ and ‘Death to Khamenei.’ The burial ceremony for Reza Azimzadeh turned into a protest by angry residents. Youths blocked roads by setting fires and creating barricades.
On Sunday night, suppressive forces also attacked the Khomeini Hospital in Ilam, where those injured in recent clashes were hospitalized, and beat the wounded. Residents rushed to the location to aid the injured, setting fires, creating barricades, and blocking roads late into the night.
In Kuhdasht, Lorestan province, the body of martyr Amir Hesam Khodayari was carried in a funeral procession with chants of ‘Mother, mother, it’s time for war.’ In Hafshejan (Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province), the body of 15-year-old martyr Soroush Soleimani, who was killed on Saturday, January 3, 2026, by direct fire from regime forces, was laid to rest amid chants of ‘This withered flower is a gift to the homeland’ and ‘It is a day of mourning today, a day of mourning, valiant Hafshejan is in mourning today’.
In Mehdi Shahr, Semnan province, a protest rally was held with the chant ‘Death to the dictator’.
On Sunday afternoon, protesters blocked the Ahvaz-Andimeshk road in Abdolkhan, Ahvaz, by setting tires on fire.
In Qorveh, Kurdistan province, protesting youths clashed with police.
In Mashhad (Ahmadabad and Shandiz), residents, led by heroic women, clashed with security forces while chanting ‘Death to the dictator’.
In Sari, Mashkan-e Niriz, Yazd, Lahijan, Sarableh, Hamedan, Bushehr, Yasuj, Zahedan, Qazvin, Dorud, Khorramabad, and Dezful (Abdol Khan), rebellious youths took control of the streets by setting fires, blocking roads, and clashing with the regime’s mercenaries.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 5, 2026