Iran Uprising Day 18 Report
On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the eighteenth day of Iran’s nationwide uprising saw intensified clashes in Tehran’s Sattarkhan, Sadeghieh, Haft Howz, Teatr-e Shahr, Tehranpars, Valiasr, and Naziabad districts, where security forces delivered coup de grâce shots to injured protesters and fired pellets indiscriminately. In Mashhad, rebellious youth killed a regime colonel and three Basij members during confrontations; Kermanshah’s Taq-e Bostan witnessed hit-and-run battles with reinforcements from Qasr-e Shirin, Ravansar, and Javanrud; Shahr-e Babak in Kerman faced a “warlike situation” with the intelligence chief injured. House-to-house raids targeted satellite dishes and Starlink equipment amid a 132-hour internet blackout, while the PMOI announced over 50,000 arrests since December 28 across 144 cities.
⚠️ Update: Metrics show #Iran remains offline as the country wakes to another day of digital darkness.
With the internet blackout now past its 132nd hour, early reports indicate thousands of casualties. The true extent of the killings is obscured by the absence of connectivity. pic.twitter.com/KVNqOTH848
— NetBlocks (@netblocks) January 14, 2026
Judiciary Expedites Executions
Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i visited Tehran prisons for five hours, ordering “immediate” executions of protesters labeled as threats, warning that delays would diminish their terror effect. The PMOI released names of 38 more martyrs, including five women, pushing the verified death toll beyond 3,000 by January 11, with victims like 17-year-old Amirali Zaheri from Tuyserkan.
PMOI Announces Arrest Figures
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) reported over 50,000 arrests from December 28, 2025, to January 14, 2026, via investigations in 144 cities and inquiries in 76 others, based on eyewitnesses, families, and prisoners; many on-site detentions led to releases, but full counts require international prison access.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi’s Post on X
Mrs. Rajavi, in a post about the protests, said: “On Tuesday night, Tehran and many other cities once again became the scene of direct confrontation between the people and rebellious youth on one side, and the regime’s violent IRGC forces on the other. Yet the fearless youth, alongside resolute women and girls, are bringing the clerical regime, despite all its brutality, to its knees and are paving the way for freedom and democracy. The regime’s escalating repressive measures across multiple cities, the deployment of heavy weapons into the streets, and the digital lockdown imposed on all of Iran only underscore Khamenei’s failure in the face of a people who have risen.”
According to an announcement by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the total number of arrests and detentions nationwide during the uprising, from December 28 to January 14, has reached 50,000.
Iran’s criminal rulers, determined to preserve the disgraceful… pic.twitter.com/YQyqvoaLQL— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 15, 2026