Iran state TV hacked to show exiled Crown Prince Pahlavi

Multiple Iranian authorities TV channels were hacked connected Sunday amid a near-total net shutdown to aerial footage of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and images of anti-government protests that person rocked Tehran successful caller weeks.

Two clips of Pahlavi were shown arsenic good arsenic a graphic calling connected Iranian information forces to broadside with the public, The Associated Press reported.

"Don't constituent your weapons astatine the people. Join the federation for the state of Iran," 1 graphic read, according to a translation from the outlet.

Pahlavi himself called connected Iran’s subject to interruption with the Islamic Republic and broadside with the people.

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A demonstrator holds a motion showing Reza Pahlavi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose representation is crossed out, during a protestation successful Houston calling for U.S. enactment against Iran’s Islamic Republic connected Jan. 18, 2026. (Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"I person a peculiar connection for the military. You are the nationalist service of Iran, not the Islamic Republic army," helium said successful the hacked broadcast. "You person a work to support your ain lives. You don’t person overmuch clip left. Join the radical arsenic soon arsenic possible."

The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which tracks quality rights violations successful Iran, said connected Sunday that nationwide protests continued into the 22nd time arsenic President Donald Trump weighs imaginable U.S. subject action.

The group’s aggregated figures showed 624 recorded protests, the apprehension of astatine slightest 24,669 radical and the confirmed deaths of 3,919 individuals.

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London-based Iranians pain images of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a protestation extracurricular Downing Street calling for governmental alteration successful Iran connected Jan. 18, 2026. (Lab Ky Mo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

HRANA said 3,685 of those killed were protesters, including 25 children nether the property of 18.

Nearly 9,000 deaths stay nether investigation.

Iran International reported that witnesses crossed aggregate cities told them information forces stormed hospitals, removed injured protesters, and interfered with aesculapian care, portion reports from different areas described overwhelmed morgues and a beardown information beingness astir aesculapian facilities.

A pistillate walks up an overpass staircase beside a burned-out gathering damaged during caller protests successful Tehran connected Jan. 19, 2026. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

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The outlet besides reported that witnesses described injured protesters being near without aesculapian attraction aft shootings, arsenic ambulances failed to get and telephone networks were unavailable.

Others said hospitals were inaccessible oregon refused treatment, resulting successful immoderate wounded protesters bleeding to decease portion taking structure successful adjacent buildings.