All across Iran, people have flooded the streets to protest against the government.
We've seen massive crowds of people from all walks of life, shopkeepers, students,
workers, the young, the old, demanding an end to the Islamic Republic.
And they're doing this in the face of grave danger.
Security forces have responded with violence.
Since Thursday night,
the government has cut Iranians off from communicating with the rest of the world.
Human rights groups say a massacre is unfolding under this comms blackout.
They report at least hundreds have been killed,
with eyewitnesses telling them of overflowing hospitals and casualties rising by the hour.
This is all unfolding at a time when the Islamic Republic has been weakened on the world stage.
Its economy is in shambles.
Its international allies decimated.
And now U.S.
President Donald Trump is weighing responses to the protest crackdown, including military options.
So could this be the beginning of the end for the Islamic Republic?
From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
I'm Elahe Izzadi.
It's Monday, January 12th.
Today, I'm joined by the Post's Iran correspondent, Yegeneh Torbadi,