The Iranian people came to the streets in the tens of millions.
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The Jimmy Dore ShowAug 3, 2026
The claim that Iranians came to the streets in the tens of millions is not supported by the sources, which describe crowds of millions at most. BBC describes 'millions' at the January 2026 protests, and Carnegie says 'several million Iranians supposedly' came out, a figure well below tens of millions.
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… I will support the Palestinian people until your regime bombs my home. So go and tell them that I'm prepared to die for the Palestinian people. But you, you who used to frequent Epstein Island, you have no principles and no morality. The Iranian people came to the streets in the tens of millions. We all know it. The footage is there. The international journalists were there, not just in Iran but in Iraq. The Iranian people have spoken whose side they are. No one is going to be fooled by you." Woohoo! If I can possibly get this there we go. …
The Jimmy Dore Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. BBC reports the January 2026 Tehran and Mashhad protests were the biggest since 2009, when 'millions' of Iranians took to the streets, and does not describe tens of millions.[1]
Contradicts. Carnegie estimates that on January 8 and the following day 'several million Iranians supposedly came to the streets' of Tehran and other cities, a magnitude well short of tens of millions.[2]
Contradicts. Iranian state television footage of the February 2026 pro-government rallies showed 'tens of thousands' of people, far below the claimed figure.[3]
Context. A 2009 analysis reports about 3 million people marching in Tehran on June 15, 2009, and uses 'tens of millions' only for the transformation of public consciousness rather than street attendance.[4]
Context. Mizna claims more than twelve million Iranians attended Khamenei's funeral, but this is a non-authoritative diaspora essay that no independent crowd count corroborates.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 tier 1, 4 not rated
- 1Huge anti-government protests in Tehran and other Iranian ...bbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: contradicts
- 2The Political Economy of Protests in Iran | Carnegie ...carnegieendowment.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Iran marks 1979 Islamic Revolution anniversary under pressure from inside and outnews10.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Iran: Rebellion and reaction | International Socialist Reviewisreview.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5A Diasporic Requiem: Watching Ayatollah Seyyed Ali ...mizna.org · not rated · cited for: context
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