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Iran sees night rallies in many cities as protests over recent executions expand

By Mahmoud Hakamian
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Iranians across the country have been protesting the regime's recent surge in executions

The mullahs’ regime in Iran has sent at least 122 inmates to the gallows since April 21, tallying one execution every six hours during this period. The Iranian people have been responding with an escalating wave of anti-regime protests, especially night rallies in Tehran and other cities. Authorities have been busy dispatching numerous security units to the capital and other cities across the country to prevent another nationwide uprising.

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 youth in Isfahan, central Iran, attacked a base of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij early Saturday morning in response to the mullahs’ execution of three protesters on Friday.

In other news, armed men in Saravan, southeast Iran, opened fire and killed at least six members of the regime’s military border units early Sunday morning, according to reports wired by the semi-official Tasnim news agency. Another member of the regime’s military border units has been wounded in this attack.

It is worth noting that during the past week or so a significant number of the regime’s security forces in various parts of the country have been killed by armed men in similar attacks.

MEK Resistance Units portrayed a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi on Municipality Avenue of Rezvanshahr in Gilan Province, norther Iran, at 10:30 pm local time on Saturday night.

Hossein and Mehdi, the two brothers of Majid Kazemi, one of the three protesters executed by the mullahs’ regime in Isfahan on Friday, and their sister, Somayeh Kazemi, have all been arrested on Saturday night by the mullahs’ security forces, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.

Hossein and Mehdi were arrested for unknown reasons and transferred to an unknown location by the regime’s security forces. In an interview with the media, Someyah Kazemi had recently criticized the case against her brother and described the charges as baseless. “The only evidence in this case are remarks from other people,” she explained, adding the family is asking for evidence proving that her brother was present at the scene at the time of the alleged murders.

People in various districts of Tehran, including Sattarkhan, Tehranpars, Chitgar, Jannat Abad, Gisha, Zafar Avenue, Ekbatan, Tehransar, and Shahr-e Zeeba took to the streets on Saturday evening local time in anti-regime protests responding to the mullahs’ execution of three protesters on Friday. They’re various slogans, including:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“For each person killed a thousand others will rise!”
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”

Similar protests were being reported in the cities of Mashhad, Shiraz, Abdanan, Gorgan, and others where locals were seen starting fires and establishing roadblocks to take control of their streets. Activists were also reporting rallies by the locals and regime authorities dispatching their oppressive security forces into the streets.

Truck drives are on strike in the main terminal of Bandar Abbas, a major portal city in southern Iran. Truckers across the country intend to launch a nationwide strike starting Monday.

Locals in the capital’s Shahrak-e Bagheri, Tehranpars, Amir Abad, and Sattarkhan districts, along with other areas, are chanting anti-regime slogans on Sunday night, including: “Down with the state of executions!” and “Down with Khamenei!”

Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in Shush of Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, Kermanshah in western Iran, and Rasht in northern Iran are holding a gathering on Sunday demanding their rights while protesting their low pensions. Retirees and pensioners were also protesting in the cities of Ahvaz, Isfahan, Arak, and Shushtar, demanding their rights. This continues a series of similar rallies held by these retirees in the past few weeks and months.

Special educators and employees of the Municipality University in Ahvaz are also rallying outside the governor’s office on Sunday demanding their rights be respected and paychecks increased.

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.

Interestingly, the regime’s own media reported that The Social Security Investment Company (SHASTA), the financial institution that is supposed to fund retirees, has seen a significant increase in its profits in the past years. However, these profits have yet to materialize in the lives of pensioners and retirees.

Authorities in Qezel Hesar Prison of Karaj, located west of the capital Tehran, executed three inmates early Saturday morning, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. The names of these three inmates are: Shahab Mansouri-Nasab Garavand, Saeed Garavand, and Samad Garavand. Reports from the same source indicate another inmate has been executed in Zahedan, southeast Iran.

The families of these inmates had rallied outside of Qezel Hesar Prison on Friday and called on the Iranian people to join their gathering in an effort to save the lives of their loved ones. As the family members began chanting “Don’t execute!” the mullahs’ regime responded by ordering its security forces to open fire on the family members, especially the women, with shotgun pellet rounds and tear gas. At least ten people at the scene were injured by the attack launched by the regime’s security forces.

Tehran University students held a gathering on Saturday protesting the recently strict rules and regulations imposed by campus officials and security. Also in the Iranian capital, Tarbiat Modares University students held a gathering on Saturday protesting Friday’s execution of three protesters by the mullahs’ regime in Isfahan.

National University students in Tehran also held a rally on Saturday protesting the execution of three protesters in Isfahan while also voicing solidarity with the victims’ families. The protesting students were seen chanting: “We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we will stand to the end!” Campus security and the regime’s oppressive forces attacked the protesting students in response.

Zanjan University students in northwest Iran were seen protesting new strict campus rules and regulations on Saturday, while also voicing solidarity with the families of execution victims in Isfahan.

Contract drivers in Urmia, northwest Iran, started a strike on Saturday, protesting the regime officials’ refusal to deliver on their paychecks, no salary increases, and no extension of their contracts. There are also reports that a large number of truck drivers plan to start a nationwide strike on Monday to voice their demands and protest the execution of three protesters in Isfahan on Friday, along with the over 120 others sent to the gallows in the past month alone.

And in Ilam, western Iran, workers of the city municipality held a gathering on Saturday and started a strike, protesting not receiving their delayed paychecks and regime officials’ refusal to provide any answers.

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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