New anti-government chants in Tehran after giant rallies abroad — reports

Some residents of Tehran chanted slogans against the clerical leadership from balconies and windows this evening, reports say, a day after Iranians abroad staged giant opposition rallies in Europe and North America.

While street protests have petered out in the face of the regime’s deadly crackdown, last week, residents of Tehran and other cities began shouting slogans against the leadership from the relative safety of their own homes inside vast apartment blocks.

In a new night of chants, residents of the eastern Tehran district of Ekbatan today shouted “death to Khamenei,” “death to the Islamic republic” and “long live the shah,” according to the Shahrak Ekbatan social media account, which monitors the area.

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More anti-Islamic Republic chants were heard across Shiraz and Tehran (videos 2 and 3), while in Karaj (video 1) protesters incorporated the Iranian national anthem into their chants. https://t.co/vbutqgARxE pic.twitter.com/rTHeHYNCOR

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Reza Pahlavi, the son of the shah ousted by the Islamic Revolution, has urged people inside the country to stage such actions in parallel with protests abroad over the weekend.

Police in the southern German city of Munich said 250,000 people attended a rally there yesterday, which, in an unusual move, was personally addressed by Pahlavi. Other major pro-monarchy rallies were held in diaspora strongholds, including Los Angeles and Toronto.

Pahlavi’s office said on X that over a million people had attended such rallies worldwide, but it was not immediately possible to confirm the figure.

Persian-language TV channel Iran International, which is based outside Iran, reports similar actions taking place in other parts of Tehran, broadcasting images of people chanting, “This is the final battle; Pahlavi is coming back” and “Death to the Guards” in reference to the authorities’ ideological army, the Revolutionary Guards.

Slogans hostile to the authorities were also chanted in other cities, including Shiraz in the south and Arak in the center of the country, it adds.