The nationwide uprising in Iran against the religious dictatorship entered its sixth consecutive day on Friday, January 2, 2026. Sparked by a devastating economic collapse, with the national currency plummeting to historic lows against the dollar, the protests that began in the Grand Bazaar of Tehran have now engulfed the entire country. What started as an outcry against poverty and inflation has rapidly evolved into a revolution demanding the overthrow of the regime.

As the uprising persists, the clerical regime has resorted to lethal force. On the fifth day, Thursday, January 1, the protests saw an unprecedented expansion. From the strikes at Tehran’s wholesale markets to street clashes in Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Qom, and Kermanshah, the Iranian people confronted the regime’s suppressive apparatus directly. Security forces were forced to retreat in multiple locations as youth set fire to Basij bases and police vehicles. The crackdown was particularly bloody in Lordegan and Fuladshahr, where regime forces opened fire on civilians.

On January 2, 2026, the sixth day of the nationwide uprising, the conflict between the Iranian people and the regime reached a perilous new height. What began earlier in the day with funerals transforming into protests has evolved into widespread nightly urban warfare. In Fars and Lorestan provinces, these gatherings escalated into direct confrontations, while in Tehran, the unrest spilled into major residential districts, signaling a loss of control by the security apparatus.

As night falls on the sixth day of the uprising, the protests have intensified and spread to residential districts across the capital and major provincial centers. Reports indicate that security forces are struggling to contain the expanding unrest, resorting to live fire in the southwest while facing total defiance in the west.

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