Protest movement continues to gain traction: "We can see from the news and from some government reactions that this regime is terrified to its bones," a 33-year-old protester named Sahar told The New York Times. In Iran, the weakening rial—due mostly to sanctions—has created an economic crisis. And on December 28, the crisis got so bad that people started to take to the streets, protesting the incompetence of the regime. Since then, the protests have morphed into a more generalized means of venting rage at those in power. And as Iran's security forces have started killing protesters in the streets—at least hundreds, if not thousands at this point—the rage has only grown.
It's not just in Tehran, but all over the country that anger with the regime is reaching a fever pitch:
