This Is Our Story | Episode 1: The City Stops | Iran Protests

In the first eleven days of the protests, from 28 December 2025 to 7 January 2026, Iranians took to the streets in towns and cities across the country. This is their story.

It begins in Tehran's bazaar, where the sharp fall of the rial and the soaring price of the dollar brought people onto the streets. Over the following days the protests spread across Iran. They took hold first in many smaller towns and cities before growing in scale and reaching some of the country's major cities. Anger over the economic crisis soon became something much broader.

The episode follows the people who took to the streets in those early days, the growing unrest and the crackdown that had already begun. Many showed extraordinary courage, often far from the attention of the outside world, and their stories were soon overshadowed by the scale of what happened on 8 and 9 January — 18 and 19 Dey.

Episode One tells the story of those who were already on the streets, and of the days that prepared the ground for what was to come.

About the series
Across four episodes, This Is Our Story brings together footage, testimonies and evidence from inside Iran to document protests and a violent crackdown that unfolded largely beyond the world's view.

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