Armed militias fire heavy machine guns through Tehran streets in deadly night attacks

Gunfire echoed done Tehran connected Tuesday arsenic heavy equipped militias were deployed crossed the Iranian capital, transforming immoderate districts into fortified zones nether aggravated security.

Video footage showed bursts of automatic weapons aft acheronian arsenic authorities buildings, authorities media facilities and large intersections were reportedly placed nether guard, with armored pickups and masked fighters patrolling the streets successful Toyotas.

The trucks are seen mounted with dense instrumentality guns, moving successful convoys with weapons firing into the acheronian arsenic equipped men outcry commands.

In the video, large-caliber guns tin beryllium heard rattling arsenic vehicles maneuver done municipality streets.

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"There has been a deployment of dozens of Toyotas mounted with dense instrumentality guns (DShK) and different dense weapons successful Tehran," Ali Safavi, a elder authoritative with the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told Fox News Digital.

"They are reportedly being utilized by elements linked to Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)," helium said.

"Their commandant speaks successful Farsi and these fighters are Iraqi Hash al-Sha’bi, Popular Mobilization Force and Hezbollah fighters who person joined the IRGC. The IRGC are their commanders, and you tin perceive them shouting successful Farsi."

According to Safavi, the Iranian authorities has progressively relied connected overseas proxy forces to support power of the capital.

"The authorities has brought successful astatine slightest 5,000 overseas elements present from Iraq and Hezbollah to power Tehran," helium explained.

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Cars pain successful a thoroughfare during a protestation implicit the illness of the currency’s worth successful Tehran, Iran, Jan. 8, 2026. (Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)

"They are guarding the authorities buildings and the authorities vigor and TV and are utilizing dense instrumentality guns which are Russian-made and 50 caliber."

Safavi added that "at nighttime determination are fierce clashes that are ongoing arsenic good arsenic moving thoroughfare battles betwixt the protesters and the peculiar portion forces."

The footage emerged arsenic the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported what it described arsenic Day Twenty-Four of nationwide protests, marked by a continued communications blackout.

"The fig of confirmed deaths has reached 4,519, portion the fig of deaths inactive nether probe stands astatine 9,049," the bureau said, adding that astatine slightest 5,811 radical person been earnestly injured and 26,314 arrested.

HRANA reports besides described an overwhelming information presence, with instrumentality enforcement, the IRGC, Basij units and plainclothes agents peculiarly aft nightfall, creating what the radical called an ambiance of deterrence and fear.

The archetypal protests began connected Dec. 28 and rapidly dispersed nationwide, driven by economical grievances and absorption to clerical rule.

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Iranians be an anti-government protestation successful Tehran, Iran, connected Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)

Demonstrations person persisted contempt wide arrests, lethal unit and net shutdowns.

"Sometimes the protesters clasp their crushed to the gunfire, ammunition and volleys of teardrop gas," Safavi said.

He alleged that IRGC units attacked a infirmary successful Gorgan, sidesplitting wounded patients, stationing snipers connected rooftops and firing into surrounding areas.

"They past took astir 76 bodies to a warehouse and are refusing to manus them implicit to families due to the fact that the forces privation to hide them successful secret," helium claimed.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has repeatedly blamed overseas enemies for unrest portion backing the IRGC’s response.

President Trump connected Tuesday warned Iran that continued assassination threats from leaders successful Tehran would trigger overwhelming retaliation.

"Anything ever happens, we’re going to stroke the full — the full country’s going to get blown up," Trump told NewsNation.

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Meanwhile, NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi rejected the conception that outer subject enactment could topple the regime.

"A overseas warfare cannot bring down this regime," she said successful a statement. "What is required is an organized nationwide absorption rooted successful active, combat-ready forces wrong Iran’s cities to decision 1 of the astir brutal and repressive apparatuses successful the satellite contiguous — the IRGC."