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Iranian Diaspora rallies in support of protesters across Iran

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Freedom loving Iranians - Iranian opposition MEK supporters - Swedish Parliament - Stockholm, Sweden - June 10, 2023 - supporting protests inside Iran
Freedom-loving Iranians and Iranian opposition MEK supporters rallying outside the Swedish Parliament - Stockholm, Sweden - June 10, 2023

As protests continue in Iran despite the regime’s expanding crackdown measures and a recent surge in executions since the start of May, members of the Iranian Diaspora have risen to the support of their compatriots inside the country by being their voice in cities checkered across the globe. These rallies are held in solidarity with the Iranian people’s revolution, in memory of the protesters killed by the regime’s ruthless armed forces and condemning the West’s ongoing appeasement vis-à-vis Tehran’s mullahs.

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.

The majority of the Parliament of Moldova has joined an expanding international campaign of support for the Iranian people’s revolution, the ten-point plan of Maryam Rajavi as the President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition NCRI, and to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization. This is in line with similar support and solidarity by the majorities of parliaments and elected officials across Europe, including Slovenia, Iceland, Scotland, and the United Kingdom.

53 MPs of the Moldovan Parliament’s 101 members have issued a joint statement announcing their stance alongside the Iranian people in their struggle to establish a democratic republic in Iran based on separation of religion and state.

One deputy chair of parliament, three committee chairs, ten deputy chairs of various committees, and 19 members of the Foreign Policy and European Integration; National Security, Defense and Public Order; Judicial; and Human Rights and Interethnic Relations committees are among the signatories of this joint statement.

The Iranian people, through their slogans during the Iranian revolution, have rejected all forms of dictatorships, including the ousted Shah’s regime and the current religious tyranny, and also denounce any ties with these two dictatorships, the statement stresses.

The Moldovan MPs are also placing their support behind the ten-point plan of Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), for the Iran of tomorrow. The plan includes free elections, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, banning the death penalty, gender equality, separation of religion and state, autonomy and self-government, and a non-nuclear Iran.

The Moldovan Parliament majority condemns the killing of more than 750 demonstrators and the apprehension of more than 30,000 others during the Iranian revolution and called for an end to the killing spree.

This statement also condemns the Iranian regime’s meddling in the Middle East and Europe, including terrorism and cyberattacks in Albania.

The Moldovan MPs reiterate that the Iranian people’s revolution is a result of the Iranian society’s explosive status due to the regime’s heavy crackdown on the one hand, and an organized resistance movement that has spanned across the country for the past four decades on the other.

The Moldovan Parliament majority statement highlights the fact that in the summer of 1988 more than 30,000 political prisoners, consisting mostly of MEK members and supporters, were massacred in barbaric fashion. As a result, the Moldovan MPs in this statement call on the international community to hold regime officials accountable for crimes against humanity.

Parliament of Moldova
Parliament of Moldova

Local steel mill workers in the city of Malayer in Hamadan Province, western Iran, are holding a gathering on Sunday protesting not receiving their paychecks for the past six months. Officials dispatched security forces who attacked the protesting workers using pepper spray and batons.

Disabled locals in the city of Kermanshah, western Iran, are rallying outside the Provincial Health Organization on Sunday morning protesting the regime’s refusal to implements its own laws on supporting disabled individuals. Similar gatherings have been held in the capital Tehran and the cities of Kerman, Qom, Arak, Borujerd, and Ardabil.

On May 28, disabled individuals held a gathering outside the regime’s Majlis (parliament) in Tehran demanding answers about the government’s budget regarding the country’s disabled individuals and their poor living conditions. Iran’s disabled community has long been complaining that regime officials have cancelled necessary budgets that would provide for their basic needs.

Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the cities of Kermanshah and Shush, western and southwest Iran, respectively, are rallying and holding gatherings on Sunday protesting poor living conditions and medical care, and demanding their rights.

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.

Locals in the Shahrak-e Bagheri district of Tehran, the capital of Iran, began chanting anti-regime slogans on Saturday night, including “Down with the dictator!” This is a direct reference to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Freedom-loving Iranians and MEK supporters in different cities across the globe are continuing their gatherings in support of the Iranian people’s ongoing struggle against the mullahs’ regime. These rallies, held on a daily basis, indicate a vast network of Iranians who are being the voice of the Iranian people at a time when the regime is going the distance to silence any and all signs of dissent inside the country. Unfortunately, international media outlets are failing to correctly cover the situation in Iran and the vast Diaspora across the globe. This is all the more reason that brave Iranian exiles, and especially MEK supporters, have for decades considered it their duty to tirelessly continue these rallies in support of their compatriots’ plight inside Iran.

On Saturday the cities of Cologne, Hamburg, and Leipzig in Germany, London, Stockholm, Aarhus in Denmark, and Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver in Canada, saw Iranians holding gatherings and photo exhibitions in support of the Iranian revolution and in memory of the martyrs killed by the mullahs’ regime during these protests.

These rallies continue an expanding trend from Friday when Iranians also held such gatherings in Berlin and another event in Stockholm the day before.

Workers of the Hepco Sugarcane Company in Arak, central Iran, held a gathering on Saturday protesting retirement rules that will put further pressure on their livelihoods.

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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