Iranian protests escalate as authorities cut internet and crackdown intensifies

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Iranian protests escalate as authorities cut internet and crackdown intensifies  The Norway-based Iran Human Rights NGO says that 45 demonstrators have been killed by Iranian security forces since the protests began in late December.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/01/08/mass-protests-erupt-in-irans-capital-after-exiled-princes-call-internet-shut-off-nationwid  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Iranians rallied in the streets of the capital Tehran Thursday night after a call by the

00:07country's exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration. Internet access and telephone

00:12lines in Iran cut out immediately after, in a new escalation of the protests that have

00:17spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Cloudflare, an internet firm, and the advocacy

00:24group NetBlox reported the internet outage, both attributing it to Iranian government

00:29interference.

00:59The protest represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could be swayed by

01:11Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, whose fatally ill father fled Iran just before the 1979 Islamic

01:17Revolution. Iranian officials appeared to be taking the planned protest seriously. The hardline

01:21Kaihan newspaper published a video online claiming security forces would use drones to identify

01:31those taking part.

01:33the

01:38police, which have been impacted by the

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