Reports related to demonstrations and public protests
A video circulated on social media shows a large explosion in western Tehran early Saturday morning, March 7, reportedly captured from inside a house and attributed to an airstrike.
On March 16, 2026, at 13:30 local time, explosions occurred in the center of Tehran, hitting the Basij base at Sar Martazavi on Kashan Street and the hunting rifle complex near Haram Square and the intersection of Sepah and Kamali streets.
On Saturday, March 16, a video showed a large explosion at around 3 a.m. in the Kuhak neighborhood of western Tehran, near the IRGC Aerospace Force Command.
On March 7, 2026, 14 members of the Khabarghan Majlis in Iran refused to participate in a session aimed at recognizing Mojtaba Khamenei as his father's successor, protesting against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) actions and the lack of legal support. The session was held to prevent a potential campaign by the United States and Israel.
In a week of intense conflict in Iran during late 2025, the US military operations resulted in the deaths of thousands of IRGC and Basij forces, the destruction of the Iranian navy and all IRGC bases, and the reported death of Supreme Leader Khamenei, with his successor Mojtaba in hiding.
On Saturday, March 16, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump responded to a social media post by Masoud Pezeshkian, in which Pezeshkian apologized to neighboring countries for Iran's relentless attacks by America and Israel.
On March 3, 2026, at 1400Z, the IRGC Basij Beheshti headquarters in Tehran, located in Tehran Province, Iran (coordinates: 35.7305, 51.4819), was targeted.
On March 6, 2025, the Telegram channel "Hana" reported and published images of an airstrike on an IRGC center in Divandarreh, which was reportedly destroyed; local sources cited by Hana claim at least six civilians and government forces were killed near the attack site.
On Tuesday, March 2, at 19:30 local time, a military target associated with the Beheshti Resistance Basij Area Corps in Tehran was struck. The location of the strike is at coordinates 35.7305, 51.4819.
Huge explosions were reported near Azadi Street in Tehran, targeting the Meqdad Basij base, a facility used by the IRGC to suppress protests.
A citizen sent a video to Iran International reporting an attack on the "Towhid" IRGC barracks in Shahr-e Rey on Saturday, March 6, noting that the facility had its lights off for a period following the attack.
The IRGC/Basij Meqdad headquarters on Azadi Street in Western Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran, has been reportedly destroyed.
