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People from different walks of life in Iran are continuing their protests against the mullahs’ regime, especially criticizing the ruling dictatorship’s disastrous economic policies. Inflation is rampant, prices of basic goods are skyrocketing, the country’s national currency, the rial, is nosediving against the U.S. dollar, while unemployment continues to climb to dangerous levels.
As Friday marks the 190th day of Iran’s nationwide uprising, people in various cities across the country have been holding rallies, gatherings, demonstrations, and using other methods to voice their grievances. The people of Sistan & Baluchestan Province are also launching new protests today.
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 664 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
People in the city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan & Baluchestan Province are in the streets again on this Friday launching their latest anti-regime protests following their Friday prayers. Initial reports a large crowd of locals holding a major demonstration and chanting slogans against the mullahs’ regime and their apparatus of oppressive forces. This is the 25th consecutive Friday that these brave locals have held protest rallies and demonstrations against the regime.
Their slogans include:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!”
“Monarchy – [mullahs’ regime]! 100 years of crimes!”
“Down with the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”
“My martyred brother, I will avenge your blood!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“Death to the Basij!”
“This is the last message: the entire [regime] is our target!”
“Mullahs must get lost!”
“I will kill those who killed my brother!”
“We may die but we won’t live in shame!”
In their demonstration today protesters were carrying placards reading: “No to monarchy! No to [mullahs’ regime]! Democracy and equality!”
March 24 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Protesters are chanting:
"Monarchy – [mullahs' regime]! 100 years of crimes!"#IranRevolutionpic.twitter.com/6OxCggOadW— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 24, 2023
Confirming reports from local activists, Netblocks, the UK-based internet observatory organization tracking network disruptions and shutdowns across the globe, said “network data showed a significant disruption to internet connectivity in Zahedan” and that “the incident follows an ongoing pattern of network blackouts targeting protests during Friday prayers.”
⚠ Confirmed: Network data show a significant disruption to internet connectivity in Zahedan, #Iran; the incident follows an ongoing pattern of network blackouts targeting protests during Friday prayers pic.twitter.com/eA2p6QyeNK
— NetBlocks (@netblocks) March 24, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed the courageous people of Zahedan and all of Sistan & Baluchestan Province for their continues and relentless protests against the mullahs’ regime.
“I salute the people of Zahedan who started the New Year with chants of ‘Death to Khamenei!’ Thousands of our fellow Baluch compatriots took to the streets on the first Friday of the Persian New Year 1402, chanting, “Freedom for Iran,’ and “Death to the oppressor, be it the shah or the (mullahs’ supreme) leader!” They once again demonstrated their firm resolve to free Iran,” the NCRI President-elect explained.
I salute the people of #Zahedan who started the New Year with chants of “Death to Khamenei.”
Thousands of our fellow Baluch compatriots took to the streets on the first Friday of the Persian New Year 1402, chanting, “freedom for #Iran,” and “death to the oppressor, be it the shah… pic.twitter.com/S2BcJewBsQ— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) March 24, 2023
In Bandar Abbas, a major portal city in southern Iran, two protesters used a motorcycle to approach and thus torch a poster of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday night.
Protesters using Molotov cocktails attacked a branch of the regime’s National Bank in the city of Bandar Anzali in northern Iran on Friday night.
Bandar Abbas, southern #Iran
Protesters torched a poster of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/BDfFYt0KZb— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 24, 2023
Early Friday morning local time protesters in the city of Kerman in south-central Iran torched a large billboard of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani. This is yet another reminder that in stark contrast to the regime’s claims and propaganda, the Iranian people utterly despise and loath Qassem Soleimani and the entirety of the IRGC.
March 24 – Kerman, south-central #Iran
Protesters torched a large billboard of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/1WfUzQkLDx— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 24, 2023
Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization began protesting and voicing their economic woes during a visit to a local religious site by regime Vice President Mohammad Mokhber on Thursday.
In the country’s capital, locals of the Narmak district began chanting anti-regime slogans on Thursday night. The slogans including:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”
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.
