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Regime’s concerns escalate over increasing strikes and protests in Iran

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Engineers protesting in Tabriz, northwest Iran - April 26, 2023
Local engineers in Tabriz, northwest Iran, held a rally demanding officials address their violated rights - April 26, 2023

As Iran’s industrial workers continue their nationwide strike in over 110 sites of 38 cities in 13 provinces throughout the country’s oil, gas, petrochemical, steel, copper and other such plants, protests by people from all walks of life also escalate and continue to cause concerns for the mullahs’ dictatorship.

MEK Resistance Units and brave youths in different cities of Iran are also increasing their anti-regime measures. This includes an ongoing campaign of posting large images of the Iranian Resistance leadership and engaging in attacks targeting different regime buildings in response to various crimes committed by the regime’s oppressive security forces.

People throughout Iran 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.

Brave youths and protesters in Urmia of northwest Iran attacked the local office branch of the regime’s Guardian Council in West Azerbaijan Province in response to the regime’s forces running over four Baluchi youths in the city of Fanuj, southeast Iran.

Members of the regime’s state police in the city of Fanuj in Sistan & Baluchestan Province, southeast Iran, ran over two motorcycles and severely injured four people on Tuesday night. Locals gathered in protest to this crime and security forces opened fire on their ranks. Protesters thus began surrounding the city police station and, according to reports, began using Molotov cocktails to set the site ablaze.

Local storeowners and merchants are on strike in this town, protesting the brutality of the regime’s security forces who ran over several people, leaving many killed and injured.

MEK Resistance Units portrayed a large image of Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition NCRI, on Kalantari Expressway in the city of Mashhad, northeast Iran, on Tuesday night at 10:40 pm local time. The slogan also portrayed reads: “We can and we must liberate Iran!”

MEK Resistance Units had also portrayed a large image of Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition NCRI, on Khorramshahr Boulevard in the city of Astara, northern Iran, on Monday night at 11 pm local time.

Administrative employees of an industrial site focused on steel production went on strike on Thursday, joining the nationwide strike launched by other industrial workers across the country.

Taxi drivers in the city of Astara in northern Iran held a gathering on Thursday protesting to local authorities their poor conditions and how it is extremely difficult to make ends meet. Similar protest gatherings have been held by other taxi drivers in the past, such as April 15 in the city of Naqadeh, northwest Iran, and on March 25 in the city of Saqqez, western Iran.

Taxi drivers in Iran generally protesting the high prices for spare parts, their low incomes, the lack of insurance coverage, low gasoline rations, and poor state services.

Nurses in Ahvaz, southeast Iran, held a gathering on Thursday protesting the regime’s unjust policies that are delaying and decreasing their paychecks and pensions. A similar gathering was held by medical staff of Mashhad’s Qaem Hospital on April 5th, and Rajaie Hospital of Qazvin in northwest Iran on April 20th.

Regime operatives continued their deliberate and organized chemical gas attacks on schools in various parts of Iran on Wednesday. These latest attacks included targeting the all-girls Hassan Abad School in Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan. A number of the students were poisoned in this organized attack. Reports indicate that the all-girls Taghizadeh Elementary School and the Reyhaneh High School in the city of Chabahar, southeast Iran, were also the target of the regime’s ongoing chemical gas attacks. Other schools targeted in today’s attacks include:

Administrative employees of the ODCC Company in Isfahan, central Iran, joined the nationwide strike on Wednesday, protesting their officials’ refusal to increase their paychecks.

Workers of a well services company in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, held a gathering on Wednesday to protest and demand their delayed paychecks. Workers of an industrial site in Sirjan, south-central Iran, were also on strike yesterday, protesting their officials’ refusal to increase their paychecks and acknowledge their violated rights.

Nurses in Shiraz were holding a gathering on Wednesday, protesting the regime’s payment methods that are depriving them of their basic rights. These protests have continued for some time now and regime officials are refusing to address their issues in utter neglect.

A group of engineers in Tabriz, northwest Iran, rallied outside the provincial governor’s office on Wednesday demanding officials address their outstanding dilemmas.

Locals in the Shahrak-e Bagheri district of Tehran were chanting anti-regime slogans on Wednesday night, including:
“Down with Khamenei!”

Pensioners and retirees of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the city of Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, were holding a rally and marching on Wednesday, protesting high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, poor living conditions and officials’ refusal to address their demands.

Pensioners and retirees are among the worst-hit segments of Iran’s society. They depend on government stipends to make ends meet, but the regime has refused to increase their pensions in correspondence with growing inflation and the depreciation of the national currency.

The government has long provided many hollow promises of increasing pensions. It was also supposed to settle unpaid pensions remaining from previous years. So far, it has yet to deliver on both demands.

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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