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Iran’s protests continue with Baluchis’ relentless anti-regime rallies

By Mahmoud Hakamian
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Baluchis protesting in Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan in southeast Iran [File Photo]

Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 254th day on Saturday following a day of relentless anti-regime rallies by the country’s brave Baluchi community in Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan. Demonstrators were in the streets in large numbers and chanting anti-regime slogans, specifically targeting the regime’s senior officials and the mullahs’ oppressive security forces that have been involved in the heavy crackdown against the Baluchis and people across the country.

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 in Homayoun Shahr of Isfahan Province in central Iran attacked an IRGC paramilitary Basij base, according to reports from activists from inside Iran. Further details will be provided when available.

Locals in the capital’s Shahrak-e Bagheri district began chanting anti-regime slogans on Saturday night, including: “Down with Khamenei!” referring to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Workers of the Makush Steel Company in Bandar Abbas, the provincial capital of Hormozgan in southern Iran, were rallying outside provincial governor’s office on Saturday demanding their rights, including delayed paychecks and pensions.

In other news, railway workers in northwest Iran are on strike on Saturday demanding their rights, especially their delayed paychecks and pensions. Activists are also reporting similar strikes in the cities of Kerman, Qom, Takestan, and Miyane.

People in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan & Baluchestan Province in southeast Iran, took to the streets again on Friday following their weekly prayers and began chanting slogans against the mullahs’ regime, and their oppressive security forces, including the IRGC and Basij, while also strongly condemning the recent surge in executions. Their slogans are:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with the oppressor, be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”
“Political prisoners must be released!”
“Down with the IRGC!”
“Down with the state of executions!”
“Basij and IRGC, you are our ISIS!”
“This is the last message: the entire system is our target!”

Regime authorities imposed heavy internet crackdown measures in Zahedan in an attempt to prevent activists from posting videos and providing reports of their anti-regime demonstration on Friday. “Network data show Zahedan, Iran, has experienced another major internet outage this afternoon; the recurring disruption adds to the pattern of weekly internet shutdowns aimed at stifling anti-government demonstrations during Friday prayers,” according to Netblocks, the UK-based internet observatory organization tracking network disruptions and shutdowns across the globe.

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Following the prisoner swap between Belgium and the Iranian regime that saw the release of Tehran’s convicted terrorist diplomat Assadollah Assadi released from prison and returned to Iran, freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition MEK have been rallying on Friday and Saturday in several cities across Europe to condemn this heinous act of appeasement.

These rallies were seen in Brussels outside the Belgian Foreign Ministry and Prime Ministry’s office, London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Stockholm, Oslo, Rome, The Hague, Bern, Geneva; Halle, Bremen, Heidelberg, Bonn, Bochum, Cologne, Stuttgart, and Hamburg in Germany; Vienna, Aarhus, among other cities as Iranians held gatherings outside Belgium’s embassies to condemn this succumbing to Iranian regime’s demands. These demonstrators reminded Europe and the West that their failed appeasement policy vis-à-vis Tehran will only embolden the mullahs’ regime as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism into further belligerence, including plotting terrorist attacks and expanding its infamous hostage diplomacy.

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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