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People in different cities of Iran are continuing to voice their grievances about the mullahs’ regime and remain in the streets with anti-regime protests. Worsening economic conditions are making conditions all the more impossible for millions of people to make ends meet as a growing percentage of the population continues to plunge into poverty.
As the country enters its 194th day of the nationwide uprising, people throughout the country are specifically holding 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.
Teachers and educators in several cities are holding gatherings and protesting poor economic conditions, their low paychecks, and demanding the release of their unjustly jailed colleagues. These rallies were held in the cities of Tabriz, Ardabil, Kermanshah, Baneh, Malayer, Hamadan, Zanjan, Bojnurd, Urmia, and others.
March 28 – Malayer, western #Iran
Teachers held a gathering protesting their poor economic situation and low paychecks, and demanded the release of their unjustly jailed colleagues.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/UoCbNZHGta— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 28, 2023
On Tuesday morning, retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, rallied to protest high prices, inflation, low pensions, and other economic woes. Similar protests were held in Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan.
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.
March 28 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
Pensioners and retirees of the regime's Social Security Organization are protesting high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, poor living conditions and officials' refusal to address their demands.#IranProtests2023pic.twitter.com/N4n90YJX9v— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 28, 2023
MEK Resistance Units projected a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi on a building in the city’s Saheli Boulevard at 9:40 pm on Sunday night.
Locals in the Narmak district of the capital Tehran began chanting anti-regime slogans on Monday night, including:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”
March 26 – Bandar-e Anzali, northern #Iran
9:40 pm local time
MEK Resistance Units projected a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect @Maryam_Rajavi on a building in the city's Saheli Boulevard.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/UVSwIUySue— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 28, 2023
Mechanic technicians in the industrial complex of Baneh, a city in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, went on strike and held a gathering on Monday protesting their stores’ rising rent prices.
March 27 – Baneh, western #Iran
Mechanic technicians in the local industrial city went on strike and held a gathering protesting the rising rent prices for their stores.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/26dBWxliqQ— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 27, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi reiterated the determination of the Iranian people to continue their anti-regime campaign and revolution against the mullahs’ regime in its entirety with the objective of establishing freedom, democracy, and human rights in a secular republic across Iran.
“The protestors and rebels of this land are the ones shaping Iran’s destiny. They are determined to defy all dictatorships and coercion, overthrow religious tyranny, and replace it with freedom and emancipation,” the NCRI President-elect underscored.
The protestors and rebels of this land are the ones shaping Iran’s destiny. They are determined to defy all dictatorships and coercion, overthrow religious tyranny, and replace it with freedom and emancipation.#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/jPX02aYuAH
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) March 28, 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.
