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Iran’s cities erupt in new protests as regime continues its horrific executions surge

By Mahmoud Hakamian
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Iran's regime is ramping up executions

Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 247th day on Saturday as the regime is accelerating its brutal surge in executions across the country. Several cities were scenes of massive anti-regime protests on Friday following the early morning hangings of three protesters in Isfahan, followed by the execution of at least four other inmates in the city’s Dastgerd Prison on the same day.

The mullahs’ regime has sent at least 122 inmates to the gallows since April 21, tallying one execution every six hours during this period while the international community remains silent in the face of the brutalities of Iran’s ruling dictatorship. The West’s appeasement continues to further embolden Tehran in its bellicosities and the Iranian people are the main victims. Despite all these obstacles, the Iranian people are continuing their anti-regime protests and nationwide uprising against the mullahs’ regime.

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.

Members of the MEK Resistance Units network inside Iran and brave youths launched a massive campaign of anti-regime measures and attacks on Friday in response to the mullahs’ execution of three protesters in Isfahan and their recent wave of brutal hangings. These measures include:

  • Brave youths attacked a municipality branch in Isfahan
  • Brave youths attacked at least two bases of the IRGC paramilitary Basij in Isfahan, and another in Tehran
  • Brave youths attacked a bonyad in Manoojan of Kerman Province, south-central Iran. These sites are involved in plundering the Iranian people and providing for the regime’s malign measures, including terrorism and crackdown of protests.
  • Brave youths attacked a religious site in Ardabil that is used by the regime to promote the mullahs’ ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism
  • Brave youths attacked the office of the regime’s local Majlis (parliament) member in Golpayegan
  • MEK Resistance Units in Kerman torched a large poster of Khamenei, regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini, and former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani

People in the Sattarkhan and Tehranpars districts of Tehran have taken to the streets on Saturday evening local time in anti-regime protests in response to the mullahs’ execution of three protesters yesterday. They’re various slogans, including:
“For each person killed a thousand others will rise!”
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”

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

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

National University students in Tehran also held a rally 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 are protesting new strict campus rules and regulations today, while also voicing solidarity with the families of execution victims in Isfahan.

Locals in the capital’s Sattarkhan, Ekbatan, and Tehranpars districts launched anti-regime rallies on Friday afternoon and evening, chanting “Down with Khamenei, the murderer!” and “Down with the state of executions!” Similar protests were reported in Tehran’s Ekbatan, Nazi Abad, and Sadeghiyeh districts, and Takhti Avenue. Activists were also reporting similar protests in other cities, such as Karaj, Mashhad, Mahabad, Dehgolan, Golshahr, Bandar Abbas and Podol in Hormozgan Province, and others. Their slogans include:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with the state of executions!”
“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”
“From Isfahan to Tehran, my life for Iran!”
“We swear on the blood of those hanged that we stand to the very end!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”

Incoming reports from Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan in western Iran, indicate that authorities transferred another inmate in Sanandaj Central Prison to solitary confinement on Friday in preparation for his execution, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. This week at least four inmates have been executed in this prison alone.

Locals in the capital’s Ekbatan, Tehranpars, Apadana, Shahr-e Zeeba, Negin-e Gharb, Chitgar, and Tehransar districts were chanting anti-regime slogans during the day on Friday following the execution of three inmates in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison. Their slogans included:

“Down with Khamenei, the murderer!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”

“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Damned be Khomeini!”
“Down with the youth-killing regime!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we are standing to the end!”

People gathered outside the home of Saeed Yaghoubi, executed early Saturday morning in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison. Authorities were deeply concerned about locals launching anti-regime protests. People at the scene began chanting anti-regime slogans, including “Down with Khamenei!” Night rallies were reported in various parts of the city as people were demonstrating and chanting anti-regime slogans. Authorities dispatched anti-riot units to Saeed Yaghoubi’s house to contain the protests.

Contract drivers in Urmia, northwest Iran, are on strike on Saturday, protesting the regime officials’ refusal to deliver on their paychecks, no salary increases, and no extension of their contracts.

The brave locals of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan in southeast Iran, took to the streets yet again on Friday following their weekly prayers, launching a new round of anti-regime rallies and voicing their protests to Friday’s three executions in Isfahan. The demonstrators are vowing to continue their struggle against the ruling dictatorship. Their slogans against the ruling mullahs includeی:
“Basij and IRGC, you are our ISIS!”
“We may be unarmed but we fight like men!”
“We don’t want a state of executions!”
“Your silence is treason and supports [the regime’s] crimes!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we stand to the end!”
“My martyred brother, I will avenge your blood!”
“100 years of crimes! Down with the [mullahs’ regime]!”
“No to monarchy! No to [mullahs’ regime]! Democracy and equality!”
“Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!”

The protesters were also raising a placard reading “Monarchism – Mullahs’ regime! 100 years of crimes!” as they once reject a return to the monarchial dictatorship that was overthrown during the Iranian people’s 1979 revolution.

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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