Maryam Rajavi on Iran Uprising: A generation destined to prevail

A generation that has cast aside fear and taken to the streets is, beyond any doubt, destined to prevail

Dear Compatriots,
Once again, the uprising has swept across Iran. Now in its second week, it has spread to all provinces nationwide.
Once again, the uprising has claimed the lives of Iran’s youth, beloved children whose sacrifice has strengthened the resolve of a nation.
We salute the courageous vanguards of the uprising. Their loss brought tears to our people’s eyes, yet it also filled our hearts with pride in a generation of such remarkable bravery.
A generation that has cast aside fear and taken to the streets is, without doubt, a generation destined to prevail.

The Price of Freedom of the People of Iran

The young lives taken in Lorestan, in the proud cities of Kuhdasht, Delfan, and Azna, among them Mostafa Fallahi, a 15-year-old boy killed by the Revolutionary Guards, remind us of the hundreds of young men and women who were executed or hanged in these same cities under Khomeini and Khamenei.
The fallen of Marvdasht and Lordegan, brave protesters who stood their ground with admirable courage in the face of the enemy, and those killed in Fooladshahr, Harsin, Qom, and Hamedan; and finally, the courageous sons of Malekshahi in Ilam, a city of resistance, who on Saturday were killed or wounded by the Revolutionary Guards and Khamenei’s agents.
Yes, this is the price of freedom that the people of Iran are being forced to pay.
In this uprising, now in its eighth day, the courageous sons and daughters of Iran have made their resolve unmistakably clear: to bring down the criminal clerical rulers from their throne of oppression, repression, brutality, and plunder, and to secure freedom, democracy, and popular sovereignty for the Iranian people.
Dear mothers of our fallen, dear grieving fathers, and the families of those heroes:
From here, I address you and ask that you join the sorrow and pain of losing your brave and fearless children with the anger, energy, and hope of young people across Iran, so that this wound, whose searing pain I know all too well, may be healed.
Your children are now my children, and the children of all of us; they are the children of an oppressed nation that is in pursuit of freedom and will secure it at any cost.

Tens of Millions of Iranians Are Khamenei’s Enemies

In these days, new chapters of courage are being written on the streets of the uprising. Standing face to face with the instruments of repression, the bold defiance of protesters and rebels alike has become the defining symbol of this phase of the uprising, watched by the world and met with admiration.
After a week of silence, Khamenei, the embattled Supreme Leader of the regime, was forced to reappear, threatening further bloodshed. He declared that there is no point in speaking to rioters and that so-called “rioters” and “enemies” must be dealt with decisively.
On this point, he speaks the truth; tens of millions of Iranians are his enemies, and their “crime” is precisely this: disrupting and challenging the corrupt regime of Velayat-e Faqih. They have only one message for Khamenei: dismantle your apparatus of repression, end your harm to the Iranian people, and step aside.
Once again, I issue a clear warning to all those who have ordered and carried out these crimes and killings, above all, to Khamenei himself: a warning, repeated and unequivocal. These crimes will be held to account in the courts of tomorrow’s free Iran.
The people of Iran rise up under the grip of an inhuman tyranny, facing the demonized, heavily armed forces of the Revolutionary Guards with nothing but their bare hands.
They are a people ready to sacrifice, whose courage has earned the admiration of the world and whose defiance has struck fear into every corner of Khamenei’s decaying regime.
Yes, such a people are worthy of freedom and of popular sovereignty.
It is the chains that must be broken,
and history that must deliver its verdict.
Yes, the people of Iran will prevail, and they will claim their freedom.
Salute to the martyrs.
Salute to the rebellious cities across Iran.

Message at the Outset of the Second Week of the Nationwide Uprising-
Once again, #IranProtests have swept across Iran, now entering their second week and spreading to every province.
Once again, the uprising has claimed the lives of Iran’s youth, beloved children whose sacrifice… pic.twitter.com/huki1TAGqm

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 4, 2026