(10 Feb 2025)
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Tehran, Iran – 10 February 2025
1. Wide of crowd at Azadi (Freedom) Square during rally to commemorate the 1979 Islamic revolution anniversary
2. Demonstrators waving flags
3. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, Iranian President:
"Trump says let’s talk, and right there, after saying, let’s talk, he signs off and announces all the possible plots aimed at bringing this revolution to its knees, and he says we are men of negotiations. He says we want to negotiate. If you are a man of negotiations, why do you do those wrong things. He says I don’t want to do this but he wants to block all the ways in all fields, medicine, food, water. Americans have been doing this for life, if they could do this, they would have done it by now."
4. Demonstrators waving flags ++OVERLAID++
5. Various of rally
6. Demonstrators holding placard
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Zahra Mahdavi, local resident:
"The people want to prove with their participation, that no matter how tough our economic situation is, we will not give up our country. No matter how much pressure they put on us, we will stand by our goals steadfastly."
8. Wide of rally next to statue of missile
STORYLINE:
Tens of thousands of Iranians marked the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution on Monday, the first such rally since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House and restarted his “maximum pressure” campaign targeting Tehran.
The annual commemoration of the end of the rule of the American-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the creation of Iran’s Shiite theocracy comes this year as deep uncertainty lingers across the country.
Iran faces crushing sanctions wrecking its economy and the threat of more coming from Trump, even as the American president suggests he wants to reach a deal with Tehran over its rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Iran’s currency, the rial, fell to record low of 928,500 rials to $1 in aftermarket trading on Monday, a drop of more than 6% from Friday.
Iran’s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, who long has struck a conciliatory tone toward the West, addressed crowds during a speech at Azadi, or Freedom, Square in Tehran.
"Trump says let’s talk, and right there, after saying, let’s talk, he signs off and announces all of possible plots aimed at bringing this revolution to its knees," said Pezeshkian.
People carried flags, balloons and banners as they marched toward Azadi Square in the Iranian capital despite sub-zero temperatures.
Iran’s military displayed replicas of some of its missiles at the square.
Iranian state television aired commemorations at sites across the country, urging more people to turn out. The day, an official holiday, takes on a festival feel, with schools and government offices closed, and workers out in the streets.
The Islamic Revolution began with widespread unrest in Iran over the rule of the shah who, terminally and secretly ill with cancer, fled Iran in January 1979.
Later in April, Iranians voted to become an Islamic Republic, a Shiite theocracy with Khomeini as the country’s first supreme leader.
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