“It’s a full-on war,” said a woman who spoke to The Post by phone from the suburbs of Tehran, providing a rare account of the crackdown since the government-imposed blackout began. After joining the protests Friday, she described running from security forces into a dark alley. In a separate incident, the woman in Tehran’s suburbs said she saw security forces raiding a small clinic where injured protesters were receiving treatment. As Trump’s rhetoric toward Iran grows increasingly hawkish, Europe has also started taking further diplomatic steps against the Iranian government. “The regime has a track record of brutally suppressing protests, and no one knows what the next days will bring.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2026 15:00 UTC