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Baloch protests continue in southeast Iran after weekly prayers

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Iran Protests - February 3, 2023
According to latest reports protesters in at least 282 cities throughout Iran’s 31 provinces have taken to the streets for 141 days now seeking to overthrow the mullahs’ regime. Over 750 have been killed by regime security forces and at least 30,000 arrested, via sources affiliated to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.

Latest update – 10:20 pm CET

People in Baloch cities of Sistan & Baluchestan Province are taking to the streets yet again in anti-regime protests following their weekly prayers. The provincial capital of Zahedan has evolved into a hotbed of major demonstrations and rallies where protesters voice anti-regime slogans targeting the entire regime apparatus, from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), to the paramilitary Basij 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 647 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

On Friday night protesters began rallying in the streets of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, while establishing roadblocks with fires and taking control of their streets. They were seen chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to [regime operatives]!”

Locals in Tehran’s Narmak and other districts were torching pro-regime propaganda banners, posters, and billboards while also chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Death to the Basij!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“So many years of crimes! Death to the mullahs’ regime!”

On Friday protesters in Zahedan began their demonstrations by taking to the streets and holding a variety of placards while chanting “Death to Khamenei!” specifically criticizing the regime’s leader. Protesters are also chanting:
“I will kill those who killed my brother!”
“So many years of crimes! Death to the mullahs’ regime!”
“Death to the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”

Protesters in Zahedan also carried a large banner in their march today reading: “Death to the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!” Members of Iran’s Baloch ethnicity who live in the northeast parts of the country held a demonstration today in the city of Galikesh in Golestan Province in support of their local leaders and voicing their dissent against the mullahs’ regime.

IRGC units are using drones for surveillance purposes over the areas near the city’s Grand Makki Mosque. Reports indicate and footage show that regime authorities dispatched a large number of security forces to the city streets to confront the crowds forming today’s anti-regime protests.

In Zahedan, regime authorities had dispatched military helicopters to fly above the city on Thursday aiming to install a climate of fear among the locals. Their aim is to prevent anti-regime protests that are anticipated following Friday’s mass prayers.

In the city of Khash, also in Sistan & Baluchestan Province, locals took to the streets in further anti-regime protests and began chanting slogans, including:
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Khamenei have some shame and let go of the country!”

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed the Baloch compatriots that are heroically continuing the Iran revolution protests against the mullahs’ regime.

“Our courageous Baluch compatriots tirelessly took to the streets again, in Zahedan and other cities. Their chants of ‘Death to Khamenei’ echo the Iranian people’s resolve to overthrow the mullahs’ regime. The brave people of Zahedan held placards reading ‘Death to the oppressor, be it the shah or the mullahs’ leader.’ They thus rejected, like all the people of Iran, all forms of heritable and religious dictatorship, called for a democratic republic based on people’s suffrage,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.

In Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, a large crowd of people began a demonstration on Friday and are protesting the arrest of local religious leaders by the regime’s IRGC and intelligence agents. They protesters are also chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to [regime operatives]!”

In the city of Tabriz in East Azerbaijan Province, northwest Iran, members of MEK Resistance Units on Thursday evening projected a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi near the city’s expressway.

Also on Thursday night locals in Tehran and the city of Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan Province, southern Iran, began protesting and chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Death to the child-killing regime!”

On Thursday night, a massive explosion took place outside the regime judiciary building in the city of Shahreza in Isfahan Province, central Iran. This attack was in response to the recent surge in executions and oppressive measures by the mullahs’ regime against the Iranian people, according to local activists.

On Thursday morning farmers from eastern parts of Isfahan Province gathered in the city of Isfahan with their tractors holding a protest rally and demanding answers to their economic dilemmas. They began chanting anti-regime slogans during this gathering, including: “Death to Khamenei!”

The farmers of Isfahan and other provinces have long been protesting the deteriorating conditions of the province’s farming industry and water shortages. Farming is among the key economic activities of Isfahan, and with irrigation water becoming scarcer, the livelihoods of millions of people in the province are endangered.

The regime’s policies and destructive projects, including the building of dams without regard to the province’s ecosystem, have rendered severe ecological problems and damage to the province’s agriculture sector.

Also on Thursday workers of a local steel company in the city of Sirjan in Kerman Province, south-central Iran, held a protest rally seeking answers to their economic demands that have long gone neglected by regime officials.

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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