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Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 173rd day as the regime’s orchestrated chemical gas attacks targeting schools and universities across the country are rendering increased anger and protests among the general public. Parents and locals in cities checkered throughout Iran are pointing fingers at regime officials and authorities for not only failing and refusing to prevent these attacks but also accusing them of turning a blind eye and facilitating these horrendous measures that are leaving hundreds of schoolkids, especially girls, suffocating and left hospitalized.
People throughout the country are specifically holding the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive 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 the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 664 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
People and parents in different cities across Iran are rallying on Tuesday morning and protesting the recent chemical gas attacks by regime operatives targeting their children in the country’s schools. These protests are reported in the cities of Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Karaj, Ardabil, Ahvaz, Lahijan, Babol, Rasht, Lahijan, Kashmar, Harsin, Saqqez, Aligudarz, Qazvin, Sanandaj, and others. In Shiraz the protesters were seen chanting “Death to the child-killing regime!”
Local teachers in the city of Mashhad are also protesting these attacks targeting their students and schools. In Marivan, authorities are deploying security units to prevent locals from holding rallies protesting the recent chemical gas attacks.
Similar protest gatherings were held in Kerman, Sari, Bandar Ganaveh, Neyshabur, Nourabad, Saqqez, and Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad Province, Sojas Rud of Zanjan Province.
March 7 – Shiraz, south- central #Iran
Parents rallying outside the Education Dept. protesting the regime's chemical gas attacks targeting schools.
Reports indicate security forces attacked to disperse the crowd.#IranProtests2023 #IranChemicalAttacks pic.twitter.com/9iWFd2ThVe— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 7, 2023
Regime operatives launched chemical gas attacks on Tuesday morning targeting a number of all-girls schools in Zahedan, southeast Iran, leaving at least 53 students poisoned. A similar attack was carried out against a secondary school in a village near Urmia, northwest Iran, the town of Dalahu in Kermanshah Province, western Iran, and the city of Bandar Ganaveh in Busheh Province, southern Iran. These attacks have left dozens of students poisoned and ill.
Further reports indicate additional chemical attacks targeting at least four more schools near Urmia.
March 7 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Regime operatives launched chemical gas attacks targeting a number of all-girls schools, leaving at least 53 students poisoned.#IranChemicalAttacks pic.twitter.com/Z0bNCQYU6u— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 7, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi condemned the ongoing chemical attacks by regime operatives targeting schools across the country while praising those who took to the streets today to protest the mullahs’ continuing atrocities.
“Let us salute the angry teachers in Iran who are protesting against the crime of gassing schoolgirls. Protests are spreading across the whole country. Only a mass uprising for democratic revolution can stop this crime of the regime against the nation’s children. Fearing the consequences of its great crime against schoolgirls in Iran, the regime is trying to downplay it. Contrary to Khamenei’s lies, the toxic gases targeting children are not on the market. They are produced and directed by the organs under his orders,” the NCRI President-elect explained.
Let us salute the angry teachers in Iran who are protesting against the crime of gassing schoolgirls. Protests are spreading across the whole country.
Only a mass uprising for democratic revolution can stop this crime of the regime against the nation's children.
Fearing the… https://t.co/N0XGcOuesA— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) March 7, 2023
People in Tehran, including the Punak and District 1 areas, began chanting anti-regime slogans on Tuesday night, including:
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the child-killing regime!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”
“[Khamenei], the protests will not end!”
March 7 – Tehran, #Iran
People in the capital's Punak district began chanting anti-regime slogans:
"Death to Khamenei!"
"Death to the child-killing regime!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/KCQZk5aqIb— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 7, 2023
Regime operatives were continuing their chemical gas attacks against schools in Iran on Monday. Reports indicate the Ali-Mohammadi School in Ilam, western Iran, a high school in Masal of Gilan Province in northern Iran, the all-girls Me’raj Elementary School in Quchan of northeast Iran, the University of Mohaghegh Ardabil in Ardabil of northwest Iran, and another school in the city of Marivan, also in western Iran, were among the several schools targeted on Monday alone. There are more such reports from other cities, indicating that Iranian schoolkids throughout the country are in grave danger and can’t even seek their elementary and secondary education without security concerns.
Locals in the city of Mahabad in northwest Iran took to the streets on Monday night protesting the regime’s recent chemical gas attacks targeting schoolkids. They were chanting anti-regime slogans, including “Death to the dictator!” specifically targeting regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
March 6 – Mahabad, northwest #Iran
Locals took to the streets protesting the regime's recent chemical gas attacks targeting schoolkids.
"Death to the dictator!" they're chanting.#IranRevolution #IranChemicalAttacks pic.twitter.com/lSOcSgx5qq— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 6, 2023
There were numerous other reports of the latest string of poisonous gas attacks targeting schoolgirls in different cities checkered across Iran on Monday:
- Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack on Monday night targeting the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences campus, leaving a number of students ill.
- Isfahan — The Alamalhoda University dormitory was also targeted. The facility’s doors were closed, preventing the students from leaving, according to reports.
- Azarshahr, northwest Iran — Girls dormitory of the city’s Qods School
- Tehran — all-girls Hazrat-e Fatemeh dormitory in the capital’s Shahran district
March 6 – Isfahan, central #Iran
More footage of the University of Medical Sciences campus targeted in a chemical gas attack by regime operatives, leaving a number of students ill.#IranChemicalAttackspic.twitter.com/mwcR1I1VKZ— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 6, 2023
- Shahrekord — all-girls Molavi School
- Gachsaran — all girls Kowsar School
- Sanandaj — Shahed-e Jhila School
- Lar — three all-girls schools of Edalat, Payam-e Zeynab, and Fatemiyeh; and two all-boys schools, Hadad Habib and Amir Kabir
- Divandarreh — at least one school was targeted, leaving a number of students ill. People broke the doors of a hospital and forced themselves in.
- Sari — Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting the Navvab School, leaving a number of students ill. Armed IRGC units were deployed to the school.
- Maku — Maryam School
- Takab — all-girls Parvin Etesami School
- People are protesting outside the local governor’s office in the city of Divandarreh following chemical gas attacks by regime operatives targeting all-girls schools in this city.
- Footage from the Divandarreh’s Khomeini Hospital emergency branch. At least four schools were targeted by regime operatives using chemical gas attacks. More than 60 students have fallen ill.
- Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting an elementary school in Dehloran, a city in Ilam Province, western Iran, leaving a number of students ill. Many were transferred to hospitals.
- Salmas — Kowsar School
- Mashhad — all-girls Qaem Elementary School
- Amol — all-girls Khanzad School
- Salmas — some students are in dire conditions following a chemical gas attack by regime operatives targeting their school
- Marand – Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting four schools, leaving a number of students ill
- Mahabad – Gugtappeh School and the all-girls Saba School; report hospitals are full of security agents preventing people from taking footage
- Qeydar, Zanjan Province, northwest Iran
—Regime operatives launched chemical gas attacks targeting a number of schools
—A hospital was full of patients
—Security forces entered the facility & prevented any registrations
March 6 – Qeydar, Zanjan Province, northwest #Iran
—Regime operatives launched chemical gas attacks targeting a number of school.
—A hospital was full of patients.
—Security forces entered the facility & prevented any registrations.#IranChemicalAttackspic.twitter.com/xK6XHUo1de— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 6, 2023
- Qeydar, Zanjan Province, northwest Iran – Regime operatives launched chemical gas attacks targeting a number of schools. A hospital was full of patients and security forces entered the facility preventing any registrations.
- Nanaleh, near Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, western Iran
- An all-boys school in Isfahan, central Iran, and an all-girls high school in the city’s Zeynabiyeh district
- Andimeshk, southwest Iran – Students were transferred to hospitals after seven schools were targeted in chemical gas attacks by regime operatives.
- Babol, northern Iran
- Sanandaj, western Iran – all-girls elementary school
- Semnan, east of Tehran — all-girls Payambar-e A’zam High School
March 6 – Semnan, east of Tehran, #Iran
Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting the all-girls Payambar-e A'zam High School, leaving a number of students ill. Parents are seeking to help their children.#IranChemicalAttacks pic.twitter.com/5qbt7lq1lD— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 6, 2023
On Monday morning, retirees and pensioners of the regime’s telecommunications industry in Ilam, Mashhad, Kermanshah, Isfahan, Bijar, Urmia, Yazd, and Ahvaz held rallies protesting their low pensions and poor economic conditions. This continues the previous rallies held in previous weeks in several more cities throughout the country.
In the past few years, retirees across Iran have been protesting their deteriorating living conditions, especially as the government refuses to adjust their pensions based on the inflation rate and fluctuations in the price of the rial, Iran’s national currency.
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.
