As Iran’s regime continues to ramp up executions, repression, and violent punishments, Iran’s defiant youths are responding by continuing to target the regime’s centers of repression, and fundamentalism.
On January 18, rebellious youth in Tabriz targeted an IRGC Basij base to honor political prisoner Jamshid Gorgij, murdered by regime authorities in Zahedan prison. Gorgij was arrested in Zahedan in October 2022, during the nationwide anti-regime uprising. Regime authorities denied him access to crucial medical care, which eventually led to his death.
The Basij is the paramilitary arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) which is tasked with the repression of anti-regime protests. The regime has set up Basij bases in neighborhoods to spy on residents, identify dissidents, and crack down on demonstrations. The Basij has played a key role in the killing of protesters during anti-regime protests.
In the past week, the rebellious youths targeted several Basij bases. In Zarabad, Sistan and Baluchestan province, rebellious youths set fire to the entrance sign of a Basij base. In Tehran, explosions were heard in two Basij bases.
Also targeted were the regime’s centers of fundamentalism, torture, and plunder, which have been tasked with looting the people’s wealth and handing out death sentences to the impoverished people of Iran.
In Shiraz, the youths targeted one of the buildings of the “Khomeini Committee,” one of the state-run institutions that has been plundering the wealth of the people and at the same time participating in suppression of the people. The attack happened as the regime continues ignoring the demands of retirees and pensioners who have been holding regular protest rallies and calling for their pensions to be adjusted according to the costs of living.
Similar activities were reported in Qom and Mashhad, where the rebellious youths targeted offices of the so-called Martyrs Foundation, which the regime uses to spy on citizens, fund repressive forces, and loot the wealth of the Iranian people.
The rebellious youth also torched posters and banners of regime leaders and icons such as regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and the regime’s terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani. In Khorramabad, the youths set fire to a statue of Soleimani, who is much hated by the people but the regime has tried to portray as a hero. Posters of Soleimani were also torched in Zahedan, Rasht, and Kerman, his hometown.
In Ahvaz, the defiant youth threw Molotov cocktails at banners of Khamenei and Soleimani. In Mashhad, Khamenei’s hometown, the youths set fire to large posters of the regime’s supreme leader.
These activities are taking place despite the regime’s extensive efforts to suppress any form of protest and dissent. The regime has carried out a record number of executions in the final months of 2023 and has started 2024 with another violent wave of executions. In particular, the regime has carried out an alarming number of political executions.
