"Iran Protests: Retirees, Workers, and Students Lead Nationwide Rallies Against Economic Collapse" 5 October 2025

In the first week of October 2025, a powerful wave of protests has swept across Iran, laying bare the systemic incompetence and corruption at the heart of the clerical regime...One baker in South Khorasan, protesting on October 4, captured the desperation: “We provide people’s bread, but we ourselves have no bread for the night.” The crisis extends to the healthcare sector, where staff at Tehran’s “Mardom” Hospital have gone on strike after being denied their salaries for two months...
The protests reveal a regime incapable of providing the most fundamental necessities. In Behrbagh, Bushehr province, residents gathered on October 4 to protest severe, debilitating water shortages. In Yazd, citizens who had put their faith in a state-run housing project protested after years of delays, lamenting that their hopes had been “suffocated in the waiting line.”...n October 3 in Alavijeh, Isfahan, residents clashed with security forces as they protested mining operations that are destroying the region’s mountains for corporate profit. That same day in Mashhad, environmental activists rallied against destructive state-backed construction projects that are annihilating the city’s “last lungs.”...
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The sheer scope of these protests—from the Baluchi region in the southeast to Khuzestan in the southwest and Khorasan in the northeast—and the diversity of those participating paint a clear picture of a national uprising...