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Iran protests 2019: Special reports from Tabriz and Shahriar

Reporting by PMOI/MEK

Iran, December 20, 2019—While the Iranian regime tried to prevent news of the November uprisings from reaching the world, the network of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has been able to collect information from around the country. The following are two reports from Tabriz and Shahriar.

Special report from protests in Tabriz

A report from Tabriz, a major city in northwest Iran, sheds further light on the scope of anti-regime protests that shook the very pillars of the mullahs’ rule in Iran.

“Tabriz was a center of rebellion and utter war during the nationwide November uprising. Youths in this city taught unforgettable lessons to the regime’s oppressive forces. The gasoline price hike was a spark and the rebellious youths of Tabriz further ignited the flame,” the eyewitness said from the scenes of the November uprising.

“From the morning of Saturday, November 16, locals began turning off their vehicles and blocking roads to challenge the regime’s security forces. It didn’t take long when the streets of Chaykenar, the intersections of Abresan, Mansour, Shahnaz, and Abbasi, along with the Pasdaran Highway, the Rashdiya district and nearby square became scenes of hordes of the regime’s security forces attacking bystanders.

“A team of youth was seen neutralizing the oppressive forces’ attacks while other teams were busy hurling rocks at the attacking regime’s units,” the eyewitness said, further indicating the organized nature of these protests. This is raising major alarm bells for the mullahs.

 

“Locals were supporting the rebellious youth by providing air masks and stones. The youths began blocking the highway to restrict movements of the regime’s security forces. For hours this district of Tabriz was controlled by protesters,” the report adds, indicating a growing and general hatred among the Iranian people against the mullahs’ regime.

“The regime’s reinforcements were not able to reach the area due to the blocked roads. Youths were also seen disabling security cameras and providing actual security for locals in their districts.

“Iranian regime authorities launched drones to take footage in order to identify the youth. In response, people set fire to tires and provided face masks to further neutralize the regime’s measures.”

Special report from Shahriar

Since November 16, the people of Shahriar county, west of Tehran, joined the anti-government protests. The youth of Shahriar disabled the security cameras installed by the regime across the town to protect themselves against the security forces. The protests spread to every district of Shahriar and the people did not shy away from the heavy presence of anti-riot and military forces.

From the outset of the protests, the regime tried to suppress the demonstrations by using live ammunition and extreme violence. There’s still no accurate report of the number of casualties, but according to the locals, the regime’s security forces killed more than 100 people in Shahriar. According to information obtained by MEK, in the first two days of the protests alone, the regime’s security forces killed at least 30 people and injured 90 others by opening fire and attacking them with wild abandon. More than 200 people were arrested. According to eyewitness reports, security forces killed more than 20 people in Farah Abad and Bashir Abad, and 14 people in Esfand Abad.

The protesters, who were fed up with the corruption and the tyranny of the mullahs, defended themselves by destroying 135 buildings and pieces of equipment that belonged to the regime. Among the destroyed items was the monument of the ring of Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the regime.

Also destroyed were at least 50 vehicles that belonged to security forces, four centers of fundamentalist propaganda, and 50 branches of banks and financial institutions run by the regime and the IRGC. The protesters also destroyed buildings that belonged to the Basij, the paramilitary force whose main purpose is to suppress the people and especially protesters.

Another crime committed by the regime in Shahriar was refraining from handing over the bodies of the dead to their families. Regime authorities forced the families to pay 40-80 million tomans ($3,000-6,000) to receive the bodies of the slain protesters, and they were strictly instructed not to hold mourning ceremonies for their loved ones.

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