Dispatch from Tehran: The week Iranians revolted against the regime
by Najmeh Bozorgmehr · Australian Financial ReviewNajmeh Bozorgmehr
Updated Jan 14, 2026 – 7.29am, first published at 6.58am
Night after night over the past week, 38-year-old Fatemeh has put her two children to bed, opened her bedroom window to the frigid Tehran winter air and leaned out to chant “Death to the dictator” with protesters on the streets below.
Like many Iranians, Fatemeh – who is using a pseudonym for her safety – hopes the protests, which have spiralled into the largest in years, could help herald the end of the Islamic regime and the rule of the 86-year-old supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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