State of emergency in Iran as 'death to the dictator' demos shake regime.
The Ayatollah's hated revolutionary guard drafted in as businesses close down and take to streets declaring 'a year of blood.
Security forces have declared a state of emergency in Tehran as businesses closed up and launched street protests just hours after the President declared all-out war with the West.
Masoud Pezeshkian, who clearly spoke with the blessing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said: “We are in a full-scale war with the US, Israel and Europe; they do not want our country to stand on its feet.”
But in the hours surrounding Pezeshkian’s shock claim Tehran was melting down internally as the capital’s commercial districts and bazaars closed without warning with workers taking to the streets to protest against soaring oppression and corruption and collapsing living standards across the country.
Chants taunting Khamenei’s hated theocratic regime included: “This year is the year of blood, Seyyed Ali (Khamenei) will be overthrown”, “death to the dictator”, and “Pezeshkian, have some shame—leave the country alone,” rang out in the streets.
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