At least two individuals lost their lives on Saturday amid ongoing turmoil in Tehran, marking the sixth consecutive day of street unrest. The country’s supreme leader has vowed to suppress the demonstrators.

Protests have erupted across 22 out of Iran’s 31 provinces, with state media confirming the deaths of two protesters on Saturday. The demonstrations were sparked by the devaluation of Tehran’s currency, with 1 US dollar now equivalent to 42,125 Iranian rial.

According to Iranian state media, two fatalities occurred in Qom when a grenade detonated during nighttime protests. This incident has brought the total death toll to 10 since violence escalated on Thursday.

Iranian security officials alleged that a man intended to use the grenade to target individuals in Qom, a city 80 miles south of Tehran known for its Shiite seminaries.

In Harsin, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s volunteer force was reportedly killed in an attack involving a gun and a knife, as reported by the Associated Press, citing local sources.

Dozens of protesters were arrested Saturday, according to Iran International. One video showed plain clothes officers from the regime violently arresting a young protester in the city of Sari, the outlet reported.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran’s beleaguered supreme leader, acknowledged the Iranians’ right to protest, but pushed back against “soft warfare” which he suggested was responsible for rioters.

“Protesting is legitimate, but protesting is different from rioting. We talk with protesters. The officials must talk with the protesters,” Khamenei wrote on X.

“But there’s no point in talking with a rioter.”

The supreme leader said “soft warfare” creates doubt within a society “through deception, lies, slander, temptation, and fallacious arguments.”

“We will bring the enemy to its knees,” Khamanei also wrote Saturday as the blood of Iranians ran through drought-stricken streets.

Protests turned deadly Thursday as regime thugs opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the southwestern city of Lordegan, killing two.

One of the protesters slain Thursday was identified as Amirhossein Bayati — locally known as ‘Amir Caffeine’ — a newly-wed cafe owner from the western city Hamedan, according to Iran International.

Iranian authorities prevented Bayati’s family from seeing his body and confiscated their cell phones, the report claimed.

The other protester killed Thursday was identified as Sajjad Valamanesh, who was not affiliated with any political party, and was pro-monarchy, according to Iran International.

The regime even threatened to shoot at US troops, treating them as “legitimate targets” in response to President Trump — the “dishonorable president of America” — vowing to protect the rights of protesting Iranian civilians.

“If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The threat of force came less than a week after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told state TV that Tehran was in a state of “total war with the United States, Israel, and Europe.”

Since the 12-Day War with Israel in June, punctuated by the US entering the conflict and administering devastating airstrikes on Tehran’s nuclear program, the Islamic Republic has continued to suffer economically and environmentally.

The regime has considered evacuating its capital city, Tehran, over an ongoing drought, which is the worst the Middle Eastern country has faced in decades.

In Tehran, water service at homes of its 10 million inhabitants will regularly go out for hours, the Associated Press reported.