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Protesters in various parts of Iran’s Sistan & Baluchistan and Kurdistan provinces took to the streets in new rallies on Friday, protesting the regime’s crackdown measures and voicing their demands for a democratic republic.
Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition coalition NCRI, with its cornerstone member the PMOI/MEK, rallied in Munich on Friday and continued their demonstration on Saturday in solidarity with Iran revolution protests and to relay the Iranian people’s opposition to any form of dictatorship. The thousands of MEK supporters also voiced their support for NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi’s ten-point plan for the future of Iran and emphasized on the Iranian people’s opposition to a return to a monarchical rule.
On Saturday night, locals in Tehran’s Narmak district began chanting anti-regime slogans, including: “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the dictator!”
In the city of Kermanshah, western Iran, protester are continuing the campaign of torching the regime’s propaganda billboards, posters, and banners. In Bushehr, a major city in southern Iran, protesters have reportedly attacked the entrance of the local governor’s office.
February 18 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Narmak district began chanting:
"Death to Khamenei!"
"Death to the dictator!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/97e8TEgLA6— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 18, 2023
People throughout the country are specifically holding the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij units, alongside other security units that are on the ground suppressing the peaceful demonstrators.
Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 282 cities. Over 750 people have been killed and more than 30,000 are arrested by the regime’s forces, according to sources of Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 647 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
On Friday night, locals in Tehran’s Ekbatan, Narmak, and Apadana districts, and the city of Isfahan in central Iran, began chanting anti-regime slogans despite the cold winter conditions. The slogans included:
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to the Basij!”
February 17 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in Ekbatan district are chanting:
"Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!"
"Death to the dictator!"
"Death to the Basij!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/3wRBGbQoVe— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 17, 2023
People at the weekly Friday prayer in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan & Baluchestan Province, were seen holding placards, one calling for the release of political prisoners. Members of the Baloch community in the city of Galikesh in northeast Iran were also continuing to protest the regime’s oppression and apprehension of their local religious leaders.
The demonstrators braved all odds for today’s protests, especially as the regime has dispatched a large number of security forces missioned to prevent anti-regime protests.
A similar protest rally was held in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran on Friday where demonstrators in the streets were chanting “Death to Khamenei!” People are angry as regime security forces have apprehended a number of their local religious leaders.
Protesters in the city of Khash in Sistan & Baluchestan Province, southeast Iran, began their weekly Friday protests by taking to the streets and chanting “Death to Khamenei!” Iran’s Baloch community has been continuously protesting and demonstrating against the mullahs’ dictatorship and the regime’s cruelty toward the entire country, especially the people in this heavily impoverished province.
February 17 – Khash, southeast #Iran
Protesters are chanting: "Death to Khamenei!"#NO2ShahNO2Mullahs#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/ry7p8EnmNo— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 17, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed the people of Zahedan and other cities for bravely continuing their protests against the mullahs’ dictatorship.
“The people of Zahedan, Khash, Galikesh, and Sardasht again took to the streets today, with chants of ‘Death to Khamenei.’ They showed that Iran’s protests will continue until the mullah’s regime is overthrown. In Zahedan, people chanted no to the Shah and no to the mullahs, rejecting all forms of dictatorship,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.
The people of Zahedan, Khash, Galikesh & Sardasht again took to the streets today, with chants of “death to Khamenei.” They showed that #Iranprotests continue until the mullah regime is overthrown. In Zahedan, people chanted #No2ShahNo2Mullahs rejecting all forms of dictatorship pic.twitter.com/uTmFDasz5Q
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 17, 2023
Thousands of freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and its cornerstone member the PMOI/MEK, rallied in Munich on Friday outside the annual Munich Security Conference.
Several political figures and members of the German Bundestag attended the rally and delivered speeches supporting the Iranian people’s demands for freedom and democracy. The event shed more light on the growing international support for the Iranian people’s uprising and the Iranian opposition.
February 17 – Munich, Germany
Freedom-loving Iranians & #Iran opposition PMOI/MEK supporters rallying outside the @MunSecConf to voice the will of Iran's people.#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/9vWqAfdaT2— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 17, 2023
In this rally, freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance showed their growing solidarity with the brave men and women protesting on the streets of Iran for a democratic and secular republic. The demonstrators also emphasized on the Iranian people seeking a democratic republic and rejecting any kind of dictatorship, be it the mullahs or a return to that of the Shah’s regime.
February 17 – Munich, Germany
More footage of freedom-loving Iranians & #Iran opposition PMOI/MEK supporters rallying outside the @MunSecConf to voice the will of Iran's people.#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/4SchTohEYf— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 17, 2023
These rallies continued on Saturday in Munich as freedom-loving Iranians and NCRI/MEK supporters continue relay the Iranian people’s demands to bring about regime change in their country and establish a republic based on freedom, democracy, and human rights.
February 18 – Munich, Germany
Freedom-loving Iranians and #Iran opposition PMOI/MEK supporters rallying for a second day to voice the will of Iran's people.#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/c8N4BIRsVe— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 18, 2023
The protests in Iran began following the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the city of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, who traveled to Tehran with her family, was arrested on Tuesday, September 13, at the entry of Haqqani Highway by the regime’s so-called “Guidance Patrol” and transferred to the “Moral Security” agency.
She was brutally beaten by the morality police and died of her wounds in a Tehran hospital on September 16. The event triggered protests that quickly spread across Iran and rekindled the people’s desire to overthrow the regime.