18 Dey 2586 Shahanshahi — equivalent to 18 Dey 1406 Shamsi and 2028-01-08 Gregorian. Day of the National Rising is observed on this day. Today's occasion, a cultural insight, and a classical Persian verse.
18 Dey 2586 in the Shahanshahi calendar falls on Saturday — equivalent to 18 Dey 1406 Shamsi and 8 January 2028 Gregorian.
On 17 Dey 2584 (7 January 2026), Prince Reza Pahlavi issued his first call for a nationwide rising. The next day, 18 Dey, roughly 1.5 million people filled the streets of Tehran alone and hundreds of cities rose with them. That evening the regime imposed a total nationwide internet and phone blackout and issued shoot-to-kill orders against demonstrators. The chant «Javid Shah» became the emblem of the day.
Answering Prince Reza Pahlavi's call, some 1.5 million people filled the streets of Tehran alone, joined by hundreds of other cities. That same evening the Islamic Republic imposed a total nationwide internet and phone blackout and issued shoot-to-kill orders to its security forces.
Modern Era
Today is 18 Dey in the Shahanshahi calendar — one day in thousands of years of unbroken Persian culture.
تن آدمی شریف است به جان آدمیت نه همین لباس زیباست نشان آدمیت
“The human body is noble through the soul of humanity Not just fine clothes that mark humanity”
— Saadi