With more protests continuing and in need to keep a lid on the threat of a new uprising, the mullahs’ regime in Iran has ordered its operatives to launch more chemical gas attacks targeting all-girls schools in various cities across the country. As the country marks its 202nd day of the uprising on Wednesday, the ruling dictatorship is playing with fire as such attacks against innocent schoolgirls bear the potential of sparking another round of nationwide protests that rock the regime to its very core.
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.
April 4 – Tabriz, northwest #Iran
An all-girls school has been the target of a chemical gas attack and at least 20 students have been rushed to a hospital.#IranChemicalAttackspic.twitter.com/qdxHsYj1U5— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 4, 2023
MEK Resistance Units and protesters in cities across Iran responded with a wave of new anti-regime measures to the mullahs’ latest chemical gas attacks against all-girls schools, and misogynist rules and restrictions imposed on Iranian women regarding their attire and the hijab.
—MEK Resistance Units torched images of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini and current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Jondi Shapour, Sabzevar, and Ardastan.
—Protesters attacked a seminary in Isfahan used by the mullahs’ regime to spread their ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism.
—Protesters attacked IRGC paramilitary Basij bases in the cities of Karaj, Qom, Amol, Kuhdasht, Nowshahr, and Semnan.
—Protesters in Tehran and Qom attacked various branches of banks associated to the mullahs’ regime and the IRGC. People accuse these banks of plundering their savings to fund the regime’s belligerence both inside the country and abroad.
The all-girls “Hazrat-e Mahdi Elementary School” in the city of Piranshahr in northwest Iran has been the target of a chemical gas attack by regime operatives on Wednesday. Many students were rushed to a hospital to receive medical attention.
Further reports indicate another all-girls school in Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan in western Iran, has also been targeted in a chemical gas attack by regime operatives. A number of the students are suffering from poisoning as a result. Another such report of a chemical gas attack targeting an all-girls school has been reported by local activists in the city of Kuhanjan in Fars Province, south-central Iran.
An all-girls school in the city of Tabriz in East Azerbaijan Province was targeted in a chemical gas attack on Tuesday and at least 20 students of the “Hazrate Masoumeh School” have been rushed to the city’s Sina Hospital.
April 5 – Piranshahr, northwest #Iran
The all-girls "Hazrat-e Mahdi Elementary School" has been the target of a chemical gas attack by regime operatives. Many students were rushed to a hospital to receive medical attention.#IranChemicalAttackspic.twitter.com/IwJspnf46A— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 5, 2023
In Tehran, locals gathered in the capital’s Shahr-e-Ziba district to mark the birthday of a protester killed by the regime during the recent Iran revolution protests. The crowd began to grow in side and people were seen chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Down with Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”. The latter refers to regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini.
“Down with the dictator!”
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
“Mojtaba, you will die but never become the [supreme] leader!” referring to Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ali Khamenei.
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we stand to the end!”
“We don’t want a child-killing regime!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”
“This is the last message: the entire regime is our target!”
April 5 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the Shahr-e-Ziba held a gathering and began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
"Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!"#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/JnvqmQz1vG— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 5, 2023
In other reports from the city of Naqadeh in West Azerbaijan Province, local activists were indicating that the all-girls Mahdi Elementary School and Moalem High School were also targeted in chemical gas attacks on Tuesday. Further reports showed that an all-girls school in the city of Dowlat Abad in Isfahan Province, central Iran, was also the target of a chemical gas attack on Tuesday and a number of ill students were needed to be rushed to a hospital for urgent medical attention.
On Monday, the “22 Bahman Mohammadyar School” in Naqadeh was the target of another such attack and at least five students in need of urgent medical care were taken to the city’s Imam Hospital.
April 3 – Naqadeh, western #Iran
An all-girls school has been the target of a chemical attack and at least five students have been rushed to a hospital.#IranChemicalAttacks pic.twitter.com/FTZqpoy0Zy— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 3, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi once again condemned the mullahs’ misogynist policies against Iranian women and emphasized on her policy of saying no to any compulsory religion, compulsory veil, or compulsory worship.
“To the women and girls who are currently being targeted by the cruel crackdown of the mullahs’ regime and the IRGC, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, I want to emphasize that the repression of women under the pretext of hijab has nothing to do with Islam. It is imperative to resist such oppression. Anything that goes against human freedom and free choice is not credible, whether it is compulsory religion, compulsory veil, or compulsory worship,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.
To the women and girls who are currently being targeted by the cruel crackdown of the mullahs' regime and the IRGC, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, I want to emphasize that the repression of women under the pretext of hijab has nothing to do with Islam. It is…
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 4, 2023
Locals in various districts across Tehran, including Shahrak-e Bagheri, Narmak, and Punak began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Down with Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with the republic of executions!”
April 5 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Shahrak-e Bagheri district began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
"Down with Khamenei!"#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/G5UPPVIQjO— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 5, 2023
Nurses and assistant nurses of Imam Reza Hospital in Mashhad, northeast Iran, held a gathering on Wednesday protesting the regime’s unjust policies that are delaying and decreasing their paychecks and pensions. A similar gathering was held by medical staff of Mashhad’s Qaem Hospital, while personnel and employees of the city’s Construction Engineering Organization also held a gathering on Wednesday to voice their protests.
April 5 – Mashhad, northeast #Iran
Personnel and employees of the Mashhad Construction Engineering Organization held a gathering to voice their protests.#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/8EPMsn59x8— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 5, 2023
Workers of the Darugar Company rallied outside the regime’s Labor Ministry in Tehran on Wednesday protesting not receiving their paychecks for the past four months and insurance pensions for the past six months.
Pensioners and retirees of the regime’s Social Security Organization in Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan in southwest Iran, are rallying on Wednesday and protesting high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, poor living conditions and officials’ refusal to address their demands.
April 5 – Mashhad, northeast #Iran
Nurses and assistant nurses of the city's Imam Reza Hospital held a gathering protesting the regime's unjust policies that are delaying and decreasing their paychecks and pensions.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/IFWepJQXvW— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 5, 2023
Locals in the capital’s Ekbatan district were chanting anti-regime slogans on Tuesday night, including: “Down with the dictator!”
Protesters attacked a state bank with a hand-made grenade on Tuesday night in the city of Rudsar in Gilan Province, northern Iran, according to locals.
April 4 – Rudsar, northern #Iran
Protesters attacked a state bank with a hand-made grenade last night, according to locals.#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/zBOGyy0BWr— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 5, 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.
