Iran has again cut internet and phone services as protests surge across the nation. Demonstrators are responding to calls for action, with markets closing in solidarity. This unrest echoes decades of similar movements driven by economic hardship and demands for freedom.

The move has stirred debate among social media users, with some questioning whether an ’independent’ platform should be weighing in on politics.

Social media giant X has replaced the current Iranian flag symbol on its platform to the lion-and-sun flag used in the country before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Iran's current flag includes equal horizontal bands of green, white and red, with the Islamic emblem in red centred on the white band.

Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.

As violent clashes continue across Iran, the end of the Islamic regime could prove even more consequential for the world than the fall of the Berlin Wall. A far better comparison would be the storming of the Bastille,

Millions of people in Iran are now united around the hope of destroying the Islamic Republic and removing its leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.

Videos shared by activists on social media purported to show protesters chanting against Iran's government around bonfires as debris littered the streets in the capital, Tehran, and other areas.