Reza Pahlavi told TIME that protesters in Iran are counting on the U.S. President to intervene as the regime kills demonstrators by the thousands.

On Thursday, the United Nations Security Council convened on Iran at the request of the United States, featuring a powerful address by Iranian-American journalist and activist Masih Alinejad. "President Obama was looking to open the doors of diplomacy to a regime whose language of negotiating with its own people is guns and bullets,

The United States stands by the “brave people of Iran,” and President Donald Trump "has made it clear all options are on the table to stop the slaughter," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the U.

The death toll amid growing protests in Iran is believed to be in the thousands, with an Iranian official putting the figure at 2,000 but human rights groups estimating those numbers could be far higher.

Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown.

Demonstrations in Iran commenced at the end of 2025 and continued into 2026 amid increasing frustration at the Islamic republic's government.

Iran's latest protest wave did not begin as a grand ideological crusade. It began the way breakdowns often do, with daily life becoming unlivable.

President Donald Trump supports Iranian protesters entering their third week of demonstrations, contrasting with President Barack Obama's silence during 2009 protests.

Erfan Soltani is one of thousands of Iranian protesters who have been arrested amid deadly anti-government protests nationwide, according to his family and human rights organizations. Days after his arrest last week in Fardis -- near the capital of Tehran -- the 26-year-old was sentenced to death following an expedited trial,