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Cities in Iran witness new nightly protests against the mullahs’ regime

By Mahmoud Hakamian
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According to latest reports protesters in at least 282 cities throughout Iran’s 31 provinces have taken to the streets for 198 days now seeking to overthrow the mullahs’ regime. Over 750 have been killed by regime security forces and at least 30,000 arrested, via sources affiliated to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.

People in various parts of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and other cities once again began night protests against the mullahs’ regime voicing their hatred and opposition to the ruling dictatorship in its entirety and the oppressive security forces. In the city of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchistan, people continued their protests on Friday and regime authorities deliberately disrupted internet connections to prevent any news reports and footage from being posted online.

People throughout the country continue to specifically hold 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 675 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

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Locals in Tehran’s Punak, Seyed Khandan, and Shahrak-e Bagheri districts began chanting anti-regime slogans on Saturday night, including:
“Down with the Islamic republic!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”
“Down with Khamenei, the murderer!”
“We won’t have a nation as long as the mullahs are in power!”

In reports from the major port city of Chabahar in Sistan & Baluchestan Province of southeast Iran, locals set fire to tires and blocked a major road for hours on Saturday in protest to the killing of a fuel porter by members of the regime’s oppressive state police.

For many of the impoverished people of Sistan & Baluchestan, transferring small amounts of fuel across the border and selling it to customers has become the only means of earning their keep and supporting their families. The reason they live this way is more than four decades of regime corruption and discrimination against the Baluch minority. The regime’s security forces attack and kill them regularly under the pretext of fighting smuggling. Meanwhile, the regime’s own security forces control a huge fuel-smuggling network that dwarfs the activities of the fuel porters of Sistan & Baluchestan Province.

Locals in Tehran’s different districts, including Shahrak-e Bagheri, along with other cities including Karaj, Qom, and Kazerun were chanting anti-regime slogans on Friday night, including:
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with Khamenei, the murderer!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots, we will stand to the end!”
“We will not appease the murderous [Khamenei]!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Damned be Khomeini!” referring to regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini.

The MEK has sent to international organizations and United Nations rapporteurs a list of names of its supporters arrested for taking part in Iran’s annual Fire Festival on March 14.

3,626 MEK supporters were arrested or disappeared from the beginning of the uprising on September 16, 2022, to March 20, 2023, and there is no information about their conditions and/or whereabouts. This is aside from the thousands of people arrested in different cities, towns, and villages across the country who were released prior to being identified or were able to flee.

The names and specifications of 3,626 MEK supporters who were arrested or have disappeared is at the disposal of the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and can be presented to any international court.

Reports indicate an attack by rebellious youth in the city of Gachsaran, of Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad Province in southwest Iran targeting a site of the IRGC paramilitary Basij force. This site is missioned to control, confront, and impose crackdown measures against anti-regime protests.

Members of the regime’s IRGC, Intelligence Ministry, and plainclothes agents in Gachsaran have attacked demonstrators and arrested many protesters. Many of those apprehended were interrogated and tortured, and thus transferred to the IRGC intelligence units to be taken to other prisons, some being secret detention centers.

Ever since the nationwide protests of 2017, sites and members of the regime’s IRGC, Basij, Intelligence Ministry, and plainclothes agents have been targeted consistently by Iran’s brave protesters and rebellious youth.

In other measures, protesters in the city of Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan, torched a banner promoting the regime’s ideology and mentality that is loathed by the Iranian people.

On Friday morning, activists in the city of Bukan in northwest Iran are reporting that taxi drivers are on strike, protesting and voicing their economic woes. Taxi drivers in other cities have also been protesting recently as the country’s economy is in shambles due to the regime’s destructive policies, or lack thereof.

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi reiterated the determination of the Iranian people to continue their anti-regime campaign and revolution against the mullahs’ regime in its entirety with the objective of establishing freedom, democracy, and human rights in a secular republic across Iran.

“What is the answer to a regime that will stop at nothing to evade being overthrown? The answer lies in the organized protests, demonstrations, and uprisings led by Resistance Units and the Iranian people’s great Army of Freedom,” the NCRI President-elect explained.

“Meanwhile, the pseudo-solutions propped up by the interests opposed to those of the nation use the remnants of the toppled dictatorial regime, and those defecting the regime ranks to stage their theatrics. This political and social bankruptcy, as well as international disgrace, which has gripped the front of tyranny and dependence, is a result of the achievements of the Iranian people, their uprising, and the Resistance movement,” she added.

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.

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