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Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 147th day as people in various cities checkered across the country are continuing to voice their dissent through different methods. From torching pro-regime propaganda billboards, posters, and banners, to locals in various districts of Tehran and other cities chanting anti-regime slogans.
In a major boost to the Iranian people’s struggles for freedom and democracy, the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced Resolution 100 voicing support for the ten-point plan of Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) for a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear Republic of Iran. The resolution also reiterates the importance of universal suffrage, free and fair elections, and a market economy that values equality regardless of gender, religion, or ethnicity. Furthermore, House Resolution 100 supports a foreign policy centered on peaceful coexistence and advocates for a non-nuclear Iran.
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 647 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Key points of the newly announced H.Res.100:
1. Recognizes the Iranian people’s desires for a democratic Iran
2. Recognizes the rights of the protestors
3. Support for @Maryam_Rajavi’s 10-point plan
4. Hold Iran accountable
5. Call to investigate regime for human rights abuses pic.twitter.com/iAVfXdUBrB— OIAC: Organization of Iranian American Communities (@OrgIAC) February 8, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi joined the Congressional conference and delivered her remarks via an online connection. “I would like to reiterate that the Iranian people are looking towards the future: a democratic Republic, based on separation of religion and state, with gender equality,” the NCRI President-elect said.
“Thank you all for your bipartisan initiative announced today in support of the Iranian people and Resistance, protecting the Iranian people’s right to determine their own future while preventing the Iranian regime access to means and resources to suppress our people,” she added.
“We mark the anniversary of the 1979 anti-dictatorial revolution when a unified nation deposed the Shah to achieve freedom and democracy. Now, after 40 years of repression and resistance, Iran as a nation is ready once more to overthrow the ruling religious dictatorship,” Madam Rajavi concluded.
The uprising started almost 5 months ago; Iranian people, especially women, have moved the world with their courage & bravery in face of injustice, inequality, & discrimination.
This is the courage of a generation standing in face of death, arrests & torture.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/CgWCuhpH3K— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 7, 2023
Members of MEK Resistance Units projected a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi at 10 pm local time on Wednesday night near a local university.
On Thursday night, locals in Tehran’s Sa’adat Abad, Amir Abad, and other districts began chanting anti-regime slogans despite the extremely cold winter conditions. The slogans included:
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we stand to the end!”
Also on Thursday night protesters in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, attacked a base of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij units.
February 8 – Tehran, #Iran
10 pm local time
Large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect @Maryam_Rajavi projected at a local university.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/MB1gpkKEwd— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 9, 2023
Workers of the Yazd Tire Company held a rally on Thursday morning protesting the company officials’ refusal to respond to their demands.
“Enough with promises! We have nothing to eat!” they’re chanting.
Also on Thursday, storeowners across the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah Province, western Iran, went on strike to mark the 40th day of the murdering of Borhan Elias, a local protester gunned down by the regime’s security forces during Iran revolution protests.
February 9 – Yazd, central #Iran
More footage of Yazd Tire Company workers protesting the company officials' refusal to respond to their demands.#IranProtests2023 #اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/jmFLRCTcZN— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 9, 2023
On Wednesday night locals in Tehran’s Amirabad, Tehranpars, Narmak, and South Jannatabad districts, and the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to Khamenei!”
“We will fight and take back Iran!”
“Death to the child-killing regime!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
Protesters in other cities, including Tehran, Karaj, and Kermanshah, were continuing the nationwide campaign of torching pro-regime propaganda billboards, posters, and banners as they voice their hatred of the mullahs’ dictatorship.
February 8 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Amirabad district chanting anti-regime slogans:
"Death to the dictator!"
"We will fight and take back Iran!"#IranRevoIution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/oKqUJwmtyn— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 8, 2023
On Wednesday, investors of the Cryptoland online exchange held a rally outside a regime judiciary building in Tehran demanding the IRGC to return their stolen money returned.
The users of Cryptoland have been holding protests for two years, but authorities are refraining from acting on their demands. Cryptoland had around 289,000 users, who have lost hundreds of millions worth of their savings in the online marketplace.
Farmers from Isfahan Province arrived in Tehran and began holding a protest rally on Wednesday morning to raise their demands and protest the drying of their local Zayandehrud River. This has led to the devastation of their farmlands and crops and left their livelihood.
Cotton field workers in the city of Moghan in Razavi Khorasan Province, northeast Iran, rallied outside the local governor’s office after city officials refused to respond to their demands.
February 8 – Tehran, #Iran
Farmers from Isfahan Province are protesting the drying of their Zayandehrud River due to the regime's corrupt policies that has destroyed their lands and livelihood.#IranProtests2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/DZBELzZiP5— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 8, 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.
