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Cities across Iran host more anti-regime protests as economic hardships expand

By Mahmoud Hakamian
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Retirees of the regime's telecom industry protesting low pensions and poor living conditions - Borujerd, western Iran - June 12, 2023

More people in different cities across Iran are launching anti-regime protests to voice their hatred of the mullahs’ apparatus and demand their rights while the country’s economy is in ruins. While retirees of the country’s telecom were protesting for better pensions in many cities on Monday, brave youths began a new campaign of attacking regime sites and torching posters of the mullahs’ leaders as a show of how much they loath the mullahs’ dictatorship.

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 members of the MEK network of Resistance Units across Iran have launched a new campaign of anti-regime attacks and measures in the capital Tehran and at least nine other cities, responding to the mullahs’ brutal wave of executions and terrorist attacks. These attacks and measures include:

  • Brave youths in the Nazarabad area near Karaj, located west of Tehran, attacked a base of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij forces. At least one explosion was reported.

  • MEK Resistance Units torched a large billboard of Khamenei and regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini on a pedestrian bridge on Tehran’s Saadi Expressway
  • Brave youths in Karaj, west of Tehran, attacked a building used by the regime to promote the mullahs’ ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism
  • MEK Resistance Units torched a large image of Khomeini in Isfahan, central Iran
  • Brave youths using Molotov cocktails attacked a so-called “Khomeini Relief Center” in Bandar Anzali, northern Iran
  • Brave youths attacked an IRGC paramilitary Basij base in Yazd, central Iran
  • MEK Resistance Units torched billboards and large posters of Khomeini and Khamenei in the cities of Tehran, Eshtehard, Shiraz, Sari, Bukan, and Nourabad
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Members of the Iranian opposition MEK Resistance Units torching a large billboard of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini – Tehran, Iran

Bazaar merchants and storeowners in the city of Saqqez, western Iran, are on strike, today protesting the regime’s plans to change the local cemetery in an effort to block sight to the grave of Mahsa Amini and roads leading to the area in general. Saqqez is the hometown of the 22-year-old Amini who was killed in custody of regime authorities Tehran back in in September 2022 after being arrested for “not properly covering her hair”. Her murder by the regime’s so-called “Morality Police” sparked nationwide protests and a major uprising against the mullahs’ regime.

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi praised the brave people of Saqqez people for standing up to the regime’s cruelty and reflecting the brewing anger among the entire nation against the mullahs’ regime.

“Saluting Saqqez‘s people and striking shopkeepers protesting repressive measures and the clerical regime’s plot to destroy and prevent access to Zhina Amini’s grave. Iranian women, youths, and Kurdish fighters remain resilient. The regime will never triumph,” she emphasized.

Locals in the capital’s Shahrak-e Bagheri district and the Golshahr district in the city of Karaj are chanting anti-regime slogans on Tuesday night local time, including:
“Down with the state of executions!”
“Down with the dictator!” in reference to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

On Tuesday, investors of the Cryptoland online exchange held a rally in Tehran demanding the IRGC-linked company to return their stolen money returned. Over 25,000 families have been wronged and robbed by the IRGC.

The users of Cryptoland have been holding protests for two years, but authorities are refraining from acting on their demands. Cryptoland had around 289,000 users, who have lost hundreds of millions worth of their savings in the online marketplace.

In the city of Dorud in Lorestan Province, western Iran, local cement factory workers are  holding a gathering and protesting the regime’s new bill that aims to raise their retirement age and deprive them of their rights.

Locals farmers in the town of Chenaran in Razavi Khorasan Province of northeast Iran are  holding a gathering on Tuesday and protesting electricity blackouts at their nearby wells. Regime authorities are imposing blackouts and only providing electricity to these farmers on four days a week.

Bazaar merchants and storeowners in Ardabil, a large city in northwest Iran, have closed their shops and are on strike on Tuesday protesting heavy taxes imposed by regime officials.

Farmers in the town of Dalfard in Kerman Province of south-central Iran are protesting a recent decision by regime officials to shut down local well pumps that is denying their lands and crops of water.

Regime authorities in Iran executed an inmate by the name of Hadi Al-Naser in Sheyban Prison of Ahvaz, southwest Iran on Monday. This follows the execution of at least six inmates on Sunday, including 33-year-old Dariush Rahimi in Vakil Abad Prison of Mashhad in northeast Iran, two inmates by the names of Hossein Amaninezhad and Hamed Bavari in Hamadan Prison of western Iran, a member of Iran’s Baluch community by the name of Ibrahim Gomshad-Zehi in Kerman Central Prison of south-central Iran, and Heydar Chashti and another inmate in Torbat-e Jam Prison of northeast Iran.

On Saturday regime authorities hanged two inmates in Karaj Central Prison located west of the capital Tehran. The names of these two inmates were Masoud Sasani and Saeed Nasiri. A member of Iran’s Baluch community by the name of Hassan Barahuie, held behind bars for five years, was executed on Wednesday, June 7, in Amir Abad Prison of Gorgan in northeast Iran. In total, the mullahs’ regime executed at least 59 inmates in the span of three weeks from May 22 to June 11.

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Iran’s regime has executed more than 150 inmates since the start of May

Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s telecom industry in numerous cities across the country were rallying on Monday protesting their low pensions and poor economic conditions. These gatherings, following a similar weekly trend, are reported in Tehran, Ahvaz, Zahedan, Mashhad, Arak, Tabriz, Shiraz, Dezful, Zanjan, Sanandaj, Borujerd, Bojnurd, Rasht, Shahrekord, and Yasuj, among others. This continues previous gatherings held during the past few weeks and months in Tehran and other cities across the country.

In the past few years, retirees across Iran have been protesting to their deteriorating living conditions, especially as the government refuses to adjust their pensions based on the inflation rate and fluctuations in the price of the rial, Iran’s national currency.

Locals in the Shahrak-e Bagheri and Saadatabad districts of the Iranian capital Tehran were chanting anti-regime slogans, including “Down with Khamenei!” referring to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

A group of families of hemophilia patients in Tehran, the capital of Iran, held a gathering outside the Food and Drug Organization of the regime’s Health Ministry on Monday protesting the officials’ refusal to provide access to a new medicine for this illness called Hemlibra, or Emicizumab.

Hemlibra is far more efficient than previous medicine used for hemophilia and relieves the patient of needing daily injections. Considering the fact that Hemlibra doses provide month-long relief, this new drug is considered a revolution for hemophilia patients.

The cost of previous medication for hemophilia patients in Iran is estimated at between eight and ten billion rials (around $16,670 to $20,800) and was provided for by insurance companies. However, those medicines were not adequate for hemophilia patients under the age of 15 as they would need treatment through prophylaxis methods. Furthermore, most of these patients suffered from severe bleeding and sometimes even paralysis. There have also been cases of death.

Municipality workers in the city of Yasuj in southwest Iran were holding a protesting gathering on Monday demanding the expulsion of the city mayor. These protesting workers are complaining that they have not been paid for the past three months.

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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