Protesters in Tehran Repel Tear Gas Attack, Force Suppressive Forces to Retreat

Tehran Bazaar Uprising- 3

Uprising Expands to Mashhad

On the afternoon of Monday, December 29, 2025, a massive crowd of demonstrators marched on Jomhouri Street. The demonstrations continued on Naser Khosrow Street, in the Tehran Metro, and at the Istanbul Intersection. Running battles broke out between protesters and the regime’s security forces in the city’s central areas. Near Sepahsalar Garden and under the Hafez Bridge, security forces and thugs loyal to the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, attacked the crowd with tear gas and batons. The people and rebellious youth confronted them, chanting ‘Dishonorable, Dishonorable,’ and, in a bold counter-attack, forced the suppressive forces to flee.

The nationwide strikes and protests by bazaar merchants continued in various areas, including Bein-ol-Haramein Bazaar, Charsou, Cheragh Bargh, Lalehzar, Naser Khosrow, Saadi, Saray-e Melli Bazaar, Istanbul Intersection Bazaar, the goldsmiths’ bazaar on Naser Khosrow, Rasteh Bazaar, Goloubandak Bazaar below Park-e Shahr, and the Delavaran and Yaftabad furniture markets. Protesters chanted slogans such as ‘Death to the dictator,’ ‘Cannons, tanks, fireworks, the mullahs must be killed,’ and ‘Pezeshkian, have some shame, leave the country alone.’ During these protests, the vehicle of a regime-affiliated cleric, who had called the protesters ‘hypocrites’ (a derogatory term used by the regime for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)), was smashed by the enraged crowd.

At 5 p.m., people demonstrated in the Yaftabad Bazaar, at the intersection of Taleghani and Valiasr, and in Toopkhaneh Square.

On Monday afternoon, the uprising expanded to Mashhad, where people protested in Saadi Square and Shohada Square. Riot police attacked the crowds with batons, and the protesters fought back.

The IRGC’s Fars news agency wrote today: ‘Eyewitnesses have reported to Fars that within a crowd of about 200 people, cells of 5 to 10 individuals were present with slogans that went beyond professional demands. Coinciding with these gatherings, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, called for “the formation of a chain of protests”… An informed source in the Ministry of Intelligence told Fars: “The pattern of small cells present in professional gatherings to give them a radical direction is exactly in line with the enemy’s scenario of destabilizing security. The goal is to turn economic criticism into political instability.”‘

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

29 December 2025