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Iran sees new rise in anti-regime protests, attacks

By Mahmoud Hakamian
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The brave people of Zahedan in Sistan & Baluchestan Province, southeast Iran, were protesting in the streets - June 2, 2023

The people of Iran have been engaged in a new rise in anti-regime protests, especially in restive city of Zahedan and major unrest recently seen in Abdanan. The brave Baluchi population in the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan took to the streets yet again on Friday with slogans specifically targeting the highest echelons of the mullahs’ regime and their tyrannical policies against the Iranian people.

This followed intense protests and demonstrations on Thursday night in Abdanan of Ilam Province where courageous protesters confronted the regime’s oppressive security forces. These protests are escalating despite the regime’s ongoing surge in executions in June after at least 144 people were sent to the gallows in the month of May alone.

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 the city of Qazvin in northwest Iran attacked a site of the so-called “Khomeini Relief Committee” on the eve of the anniversary of the death of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini. This attack resulted in at least one explosion in the area.

Brave youths in the city of Rasht in northern Iran attacked a site of the mullahs’ so-called judiciary in Gilan Province. This attack, also resulting in at least one explosion in this area, has been dedicated to the courageous people of Abdanan in Ilam Province, western Iran, that launched anti-regime protests on Thursday night and stood up to the attacks of the regime’s oppressive security forces.

Brave youths across the country of Iran have launched a new wave of anti-regime measures and attacks in response to the regime’s recent surge in executions. Many of these attacks led to major explosions in their respective areas.

  • Brave youths attacked a so-called provincial judiciary building in Karaj, west of Tehran
  • Brave youths attacked the so-called “Khomeini Relief Committee” in Dezful, southwest Iran
  • Brave youths attacked a representative office of regime dictator Ali Khamenei in Qom, central Iran
  • Brave youths attacked various bases of the IRGC paramilitary Basij in the cities of Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, Urmia, Ahvaz, Hamadan, and Fanuj
  • MEK Resistance Units members attacked and torched a statue of the IRGC paramilitary Basij in the cities of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, and a statue of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in Khoman of Gilan Province in northern Iran
  • MEK Resistance Units members attacked and torched images of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini, current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and Qassem Soleimani in the cities of Tehran, Tabriz, Zahedan, Qazvin, Behshahr, and Ahvaz
  • MEK Resistance Units members attacked and torched a poster promoting the regime’s misogynist laws of imposing headscarves (hijab) on women
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Protesters are attacking regime sites across Iran – [File Photo]
Locals in the capital’s South Jannat Abad district are chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we stand to the end!”
“Khamenei, we will bury you!”

Defrauded investors of the “Rezayat Khodro Taravat Novin Company” are holding a protest gathering in Takestan of Qazvin Province in northwest Iran on Saturday demanding answers from the company after putting down payment for their vehicles yet never receiving them.

There are reports in Iran’s state media indicating ties between “Rezayat Khodro” and the IRGC. Even the regime’s own Central Bank has reportedly issued warnings about this company’s involvement in “mass fraud”. This company’s problems reached new heights that the regime’s Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade forbid all government-associated entities from doing any business with this company.

Locals in the Shahrak-e Bagheri district of Tehran, the Iranian capital, were chanting anti-regime slogans on Friday night, including “Down with Khamenei!” referring to regime dictator Ali Khamenei.

Brave demonstrators in the city of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan in southeast Iran, launched a new anti-regime rally on Friday following their weekly prayers. The locals were protesting the regime’s recent surge in executions as many of their compatriots are being sent to the gallows on a daily basis. The demonstrators also voiced their protests to any return to the monarchial rule and reiterated their demand to live in a democratic republic after overthrowing the mullahs’ regime.

The protesters in Zahedan were chanting different anti-regime slogans, including:
“Down with Khamenei!” referring to regime dictator Ali Khamenei.
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with the IRGC!”
“No to a monarchy! No to the [mullahs’ regime]! Democracy and equality!”
“Kurds, Baluchis, Azeris! Freedom and equality!”
“We don’t want a state of executions!”
“Political prisoners must be released!”
“From Zahedan to Tehran, my life for Iran!”
“I will kill those who killed my brother!”
“My martyred brother, I will avenge your blood!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we stand to the end!”
“Iranians, unity, revolution, freedom!”
“Basij and IRGC, you are our ISIS!”

The demonstrators were also seen holding a placard reading:
“Monarchy and the [mullahs’ regime] – 100 years of crimes!”

People in the city of Mahabad in northwest Iran held a gathering on Friday marking the memory of 59 local youths executed 40 years ago on June 2, 1983, in a massacre by the mullahs’ regime. Activists say authorities had dispatched a large number of security units and plainclothes agents to block all paths to the city cemetery in an attempt to prevent the locals from holding their ceremony.

At least six inmates have been executed in the prisons of Shiraz, Kashan, and Isfahan, according to reports obtained by the Iran Human Rights Center, adding more than 40 inmates have been sent to the gallows in the past 12 days. These six executions, carried out on May 24 and June 1, have been carried out in secret and no state media or those associated with the regime’s judiciary have provided any reports in this regard.

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Two Baluchi inmates were executed early Thursday morning in Kahnuj Prison located in Kerman Province, south-central Iran – June 1, 2023

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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