For five nights in a row, mass demonstrations have rocked the streets of disparate cities across Iran in reaction to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the ‘morality patrol’.
From Mashhad to Tabriz, Sanandaj to Shiraz, citizens representing a cross-section of Iranian society have joined forces in public spaces, on university campuses and online to demand an end to religious dictatorship in their country.
State media outlets in Iran have seemingly been briefed to ignore the events unfolding on the ground, and the Islamic Republic has imposed blocks on mobile internet access in some areas. Despite this a huge amount of video footage of the ongoing unrest has been shared with the media and activists outside of Iran.
The published material tells a story not just of collective rage and grief boiling over after years of regressive rule, but of the desperation of state security forces, who have resorted to wanton violence and uncontrolled lashing out against civilian bystanders in the face of their own impotence.
Meanwhile, the past two nights have also witnessed some unprecedented moments of solidarity between Iranians – male and female, young and old, traditional and liberal – standing up as one to demand change.
The speed at which events are unfolding in Iran has made it difficult to verify isolated videos posted online. But below is a collection of the first-hand footage that was shared with us, and with some other trusted accounts and known members of the media, on Monday, Tuesday and the first half of Wednesday this week.
Monday: Two protesters hang a banner for Mahsa Amini on a Tehran flyover (IranWire)
Two citizens raised a banner showing the image of #MahsaAmini on a pedestrian bridge in south Tehran.#MahsaAmini #mahsa_amini #IranProtests #IranTruth مهسا_امینی# pic.twitter.com/A8l437pjxR
— IranWire (@IranWireEnglish) September 20, 2022
Monday: Police fire shotguns at protesters in Divandarreh, Kurdistan (IranWire)
VIDEO: police uses shotguns to disperse protesters in the town of #Divandarreh in #Iran (Monday, September 19)#MahsaAmini #Mahsa_Amini #truth #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/iIbKlIPndT
— IranWire (@IranWireEnglish) September 19, 2022
Monday: A 10-year-old girl in Bukan is carried away after being shot in the head (Hengaw)
در بوکان یک دختربچه ۱۰ ساله از ناحیه سر مورد اصابت گلوله قرار گرفته و به شدت مجروح شده است. وضعیت این دختر ۱۰ ساله وخیم گزارش شده است#اعتصاب_کردستان#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/C70fAk2Bpj
— Hengaw Human Rights Organization (@HengawO) September 19, 2022
Monday: A large crowd protests in Mashhad's Mellat Park (Abdollah Abdi)
🔴اعتراض مردم مشهد در پارک ملت pic.twitter.com/vkVmHAxkD4
— AbdiMedia - Abdollah Abdi (@abdolah_abdi) September 19, 2022
Monday: An elderly woman is rushed to hospital after being shot in Mahabad (IranWire)
An elderly woman was shot in Mahabad, west of #Tehran on the fourth night of protests over the death of #Mahsa_Amini #مهساامینی #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/131byXLo1R
— IranWire (@IranWireEnglish) September 19, 2022
Monday: Young demonstrators in Arak chase down a retreating fleet of police cars (IranWire)
Protesters in the city of Arak in #Iran's Markazi province chase retreating police cars down the street#MahsaAmini #mahsa_amini #IranProtests #IranTruth مهسا_امینی# pic.twitter.com/SvU2362JEi
— IranWire (@IranWireEnglish) September 20, 2022
Monday: Protesters in Saqqez, Mahsa Amini's hometown, take down the Islamic Republic's flag (Hengaw)
The brave people of #Saqqez in Kurdistan took down the occupier's flag#JinaAmini pic.twitter.com/J8XqmV9FUQ
— Narîn Pîran Alxas☀️ (@narin_piran) September 19, 2022
Monday: Protests continue into the evening in central Tehran (1500tasvir)
تهران ۲۸ شهریور اعتراضات همچنان ادامه دارد pic.twitter.com/QEivRUOTLO
— +۱۵۰۰تصویر (@1500tasvir) September 19, 2022
Monday: A lone woman faces down riot police in Gohardasht, Karaj (Shayan Sardarizadeh)
Last night in Gohardasht, Karaj province, a woman without a headscarf faces off alone against several riot police and security forces, warning them against touching her, on night four of protests in Iran against the death in custody of #MahsaAmini.pic.twitter.com/J1nJq5sfpO
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: Citizens attack a plainclothes member of Iran's security forces in Urmia (Pouria Zeraati)
ارومیه، ابراز محبت مردم به مزدورهای رژیم#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/WjztmQ2dJp
— Pouria Zeraati (@pouriazeraati) September 21, 2022
Tuesday: Students at Tabriz Medical University chant "From Kurdistan to Tabriz, our patience is exhausted" (IranWire)
Students at #Tabriz University support mass protests against dictatorship in #Iran after the death of 'morality police' victim #MahsaAmini last week. "From Kurdistan to Tabriz, our patience has run out"
— IranWire (@IranWireEnglish) September 20, 2022
#IranProtests #IranTruth مهسا_امینی #روسری_سوزان# pic.twitter.com/phmCZ2Sxi9
Tuesday: Crowds in Isfahan chant "Disgraceful" at police forces (Masih Alinejad)
At protests against the brutal death of #MahsaAmini in the city of Isfahan, people chant "disgraceful!" to the police beating up a protester.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) September 19, 2022
"Are you going to do nothing?" a woman asks the people around her.
Iranian people are fed up with the violent oppression of the regime. pic.twitter.com/u6VyVrEulo
Tuesday: People support a women-led demonstration against the morality police in central Tehran (IranWire)
🎥 شعار مرگ بر دیگتاتور
— ایران وایر (@iranwire) September 19, 2022
معترضان به جان باختن #مهسا_امینی در خیابان حجاب تهران شعار مرگ بر دیکتاتور سر دادند.#اخبار_ایران #اعتصاب_سراسری #تهران pic.twitter.com/aJx23IW1F4
Tuesday: Water cannons are used in a bid to disperse protesters in Tehran's Valiasr Square (Banafsheh Jamali)
میدان ولیعصر امروز#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/D0Y1NazmsI
— Banafsheh.Jamali (@BanafshehJamali) September 19, 2022
Tuesday: Demonstrators in Hamedan shout "Shame on our complicit police" (IranWire)
Large crowds chant against the Iranian regime's 'security forces' in #Hamedan today #MahsaAmini #mahsa_amini #IranProtests #IranTruth مهسا_امینی# pic.twitter.com/CZXtQCbgIu
— IranWire (@IranWireEnglish) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: Protesters in Tehran Bazaar shout "Rest in peace, Mahsa Amini!" (Iran Human Rights)
Chanting in Tehran bazaar: “Mahsa Amini, rest in peace!” on Sept 20.
— IranHumanRights.org (@ICHRI) September 20, 2022
Who was Mahsa Amini? https://t.co/8v7lk3btyl
What can be done right now? https://t.co/RfRUUhSHyI #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/dCBjPKDrJC
Tuesday: Demonstrators march down the street in Ilam (Pouria Zeraati)
ایلام به #اعتراضات_سراسری پیوست
— Pouria Zeraati (@pouriazeraati) September 20, 2022
بهترین شعار:
«توپ تانک فشفشه آخوند باید گم بشه»#مهسا_امینی #مهساامینی pic.twitter.com/rX0TQyHrC0
Tuesday: A large-scale protest on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf (Pouria Zeraati)
بی‌سابقه!
— Pouria Zeraati (@pouriazeraati) September 20, 2022
کیش، ۲۹ شهریور#مهسا_امینی #مهساامینی pic.twitter.com/Sa7cUFDADX
Tuesday: A group of demonstrators in Rasht attack baton-wielding officers (IranWire)
🎥 مقاومت معترضان در #رشت در برابر نیروهای یگان ویژه#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/1W73wlNjEg
— ایران وایر (@iranwire) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: Women remove their headscarves in Qom, Iran's most religious city (BBC Persian)
امروز شماری از شهروندان قم در واکنش به مرگ مهسا امینی دست به اعتراض زدند.
— BBC NEWS فارسی (@bbcpersian) September 20, 2022
در این ویدیو که یکی از مخاطبان بی‌بی‌سی از اعتراضات در قم فرستاده دیده می‌شود که شماری از زنان روسری‌های‌شان درآورده و در هوا می‌چرخانند. pic.twitter.com/ExnQNzMfHB
Tuesday: A police car is burned in Mashhad (Shayan Sardarizadeh)
In the city of Mashhad, a woman climbs atop a police car tonight shouting "we don't want the Islamic Republic" as protesters set fire to another police car on the fifth night of protests in Iran over the death of #MahsaAmini in custody of morality police.pic.twitter.com/xqhmugtZHg
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: A woman in Kermanshah is shot by security forces (Iran International)
Footage of a woman shot by security forces in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran. #IranProtests#Mahsa_Amini pic.twitter.com/OPbW8DNpdG
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: Uniformed officers attack unarmed women with clubs in Mashhad (Borzou Daraghi)
Video shows Iran regime stormtroopers pummeling women with clubs in city of Mashhad pic.twitter.com/27t5xC7QHj
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: A woman in Kerman cuts off her hair in the middle of a demonstration (Golnaz Esfandiari)
Unprecedented scenes in Iran: woman sits on top of utility box and cuts her hair in main square in Kerman to protest death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police. People clap their hands and chant “Death to the dictator.” #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/2oyuKV80Ac
— Golnaz Esfandiari (@GEsfandiari) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: Security forces open fire on fleeing crowds in Shiraz (Kaveh Ghoreishi)
Iran security forces are firing to peaceful protesters in city of Shiraz, Today 20 September 2022, protests over death of #Mahsa_Amini.
— Kaveh Ghoreishi (@KavehGhoreishi) September 20, 2022
Day 4 of #iranprotests, Shiraz. pic.twitter.com/PC8jm4veDw
Tuesday: A large crowd engages police cars in Kerman (1500tasvir)
کرمان pic.twitter.com/eGkbZbf6i4
— +۱۵۰۰تصویر (@1500tasvir) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: A woman in Sari takes off her headscarf and dances before burning it (Ghazal Golshiri)
Cette vidéo a été tournée ce soir à Sari (nord).Une fille danse, ses longs cheveux lâchés. Elle jette son foulard dans le feu. #Iran est le théâtre de manifestations depuis la mort de #Mahsa_Amini. Arrêtée par la police du hijab, elle est morte pendant sa garde à vue le 16sep. pic.twitter.com/chYQPygTIK
— Ghazal Golshiri (@GhazalGolshiri) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: A group in Sari burns a banner depicting Ali Khamenei and Ruhollah Khomeini (1500tasvir)
ساری pic.twitter.com/j3LLQ0Iz5S
— +۱۵۰۰تصویر (@1500tasvir) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: Women burn their headscarves in Gorgan (Ershad Alijani)
More burning headscarves tonight in Iran. This time in Gorgan in north-eastern Iran. pic.twitter.com/b5xV4fCWzi
— ERSHAD ALIJANI (@ErshadAlijani) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: Protesters in Iran chant "Death to the Dictator" (Iran Human Rights)
#Iran Protesters in Tehran tonight shouting "Death to the dictator!" #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی#مهسا_امینی_کشته_شد pic.twitter.com/zw4zC1uzeR
— IranHumanRights.org (@ICHRI) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: A crowd chants "Death to the Dictator" in Tehran (1500tasvir)
تهران pic.twitter.com/tOOwL2t1MX
— +۱۵۰۰تصویر (@1500tasvir) September 20, 2022
Tuesday: A security forces vehicle is set ablaze in Gohardasht, Karaj (1500tasvir)
گوهردشت کرج pic.twitter.com/3tVpiPOgXp
— +۱۵۰۰تصویر (@1500tasvir) September 20, 2022
Wednesday: Citizens close Karim Khan Street in Tehran (IranWire)
🎥بستن خیابان کریمخان توسط معترضان تهرانی
— ایران وایر (@iranwire) September 21, 2022
در ادامه اعتراضات به قتل #مهسا_امینی، شهروندخبرنگار با ارسال این ویدیو می‌گوید که معترضان در #تهران در چهارشنبه سی‌ام شهریور خیابان کریمخان تقاطع خیابان حافظ، با انداختن نرده و آتش زدن سطل‌های زباله خیابان را بسته‌اند.#اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/nK9V9nnsg9
Wednesday: Students keep up demonstrations at Tehran University (1500tasvir)
دانشگاه تهران سی شهریور pic.twitter.com/IK7SmoxwAO
— +۱۵۰۰تصویر (@1500tasvir) September 21, 2022
Wednesday: Demonstrators in Urmia march straight at security forces and overpower them (IranWire)
🎥اعتراضات وارد پنجمین روز شد
— ایران وایر (@iranwire) September 21, 2022
اعتراضات به قتل #مهسا_امینی وارد پنجمین روز شده است. در ویدیوهایی که از ارومیه منتشر شده، مردم معترض به صورت گسترده در خیابان حاضر شده‌اند و شعار مرگ بر دیکتاتور سر داده‌اند.#اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/d3Hql4J3du
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