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The Baloch people of Sistan & Baluchestan Province are taking to the streets in continuous anti-regime protests with locals chanting slogans specifically targeting regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his entire crackdown apparatus, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the paramilitary Basij.
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 637 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
In Zahedan, regime security forces began imposing strict security measures and setting up checkpoints. Long line of vehicles were reported as officials sought to prevent anti-regime protests expected on Friday.
Locals in Zahedan and Rask have taken to the streets despite all the security measures adopted by regime officials to prevent such anti-regime protests from continuing. Protesters in the capital of Sistan & Baluchistan gathered in large numbers and were seen chanting:
“Death to Khamenei!” in reference to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
“Death to IRGC! Death to the Basij!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“I will kill those who killed my brother!”
“We don’t want a republic of executions!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
“Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!”
“Khamenei, have some shame! Let go of the country!”
January 20 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Protesters chanting: "Death to the dictator!"
"Death to the IRGC!"#IranRevolution2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/4sWQt9Qa5O— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 20, 2023
People in the city of Galikesh of Golestan Province in northeast Iran were also demonstrating in the streets in large numbers and chanting anti-regime slogans, including: “Basij and IRGC! You are our ISIS!”
January 20 – Galikesh, northeast #Iran
Protesters chanting: "Basij & IRGC! You are our ISIS!"#IranRevolution2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/BVGtbMgXwe— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 20, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed Baloch people of Iran and their continued stance and demonstrations against the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran.
“Today, the freedom-loving people of Zahedan, Rask, Khash, and Galikesh rose up again with chants of ‘To our fallen comrades we pledge to stand to the end’ and ‘Khamenei, shame on you, let go of our country.’ Dictators cannot stop people who are determined to win their freedom,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.
Today, the freedom-loving people of #Zahedan, Rask, Khash & Galikesh rose up again with chants of “To our fallen comrades we pledge to stand to the end” & “Khamenei, shame on you, let go of our country.” Dictators cannot stop people who are determined to win their freedom. pic.twitter.com/JNOZ3Yc5XQ
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 20, 2023
On Friday, in the city of Gorgan in Golestan Province of northeast Iran, locals gathered to mark the 40th day of Ayda Rostami’s murder by regime security forces during the recent Iran revolution protests. Security units attacked the ceremony and arrested a number of the participants.
January 20 – Gorgan, northern #Iran
Locals gathered to mark the 40th day of Ayda Rostami's murder by regime security forces. Security units attacked the participants, arresting several.#IranRevolution2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/VSwTReyK0k— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 20, 2023
The European Parliament made a strong move on Thursday adopting a resolution with a large cross-party majority vote on calling on the European Union and its Member States to proscribe the Iranian regime’s IRGC as a terrorist organization and expand its sanctions lists to all individuals and entities responsible for human rights violations in the country, including regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Ebrahim Raisi, Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, the regime’s charity organizations (Bonyads) linked to the IRGC and the 227 members of the Iranian Parliament who called on the judiciary to make use of the death penalty.
598 Members of the European Parliament voted on Thursday to adopt an amendment presented by the European Conservatives and Reformists Group that has now become part of the European Parliament report on the implementation of the common foreign and security policy.
There is no doubt #IslamicRevolutionaryGuardsCorps is driving the brutal crackdown on the people of Iran, spreading terrorism in the region, assassinations across Europe & supplying Russia with deadly weapons.
I drafted a resolution & amendments stating: #IRGCterrorists. pic.twitter.com/xIfla0kTKM— Anna Fotyga Biuro Poselskie (@AnnaFotyga_PE) January 16, 2023
The amendment “condemns the brutal crackdown by Iran, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), on the demonstrators after the death of Mahsa Amini, following her violent arrest, abuse and ill-treatment by Iran’s ‘morality police’; calls for the EU and its Member States to include the IRGC in the EU’s terrorist list in the light of its terrorist activity, the repression of protesters and its supplying of drones to Russia.”
In response, people in the cities of Saqqez (the hometown of the late Mahsa Amini) and Mahabad, in western and northwest Iran, respectively, took to the streets to celebrate the European Parliament resolution calling on the European Union to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organization.
January 19 – Saqqez, western #Iran
Locals in Mahsa Amini's hometown celebrate the European Parliament's resolution calling for #BlaklistIRGC.#IRGCterrorists #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/0J83NOGFG1— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 19, 2023
On Thursday night, in the city of Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan Province of southern Iran locals began chanting anti-regime slogans specifically targeting Khamenei and his crackdown apparatus. The slogans included:
“Death to the IRGC! Death to the Basij!”
“Basij & ISIS! You are our ISIS!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
January 19 – Bandar Abbas, southern #Iran
Locals chanting:
"Death to the IRGC! Death to the Basij!"
"Basij & ISIS! You are our ISIS!"
"This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!"#IranRevolution2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/EzKldIt06c— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 19, 2023
On Thursday in the city of Dehgolan, western Iran, locals gathered to mark the 40th day of Shadman Ahmadi’s murder by the regime’s oppressive security forces during the ongoing Iran revolution protests. They began chanting: “Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!” and “Martyrs don’t die!”
In other reports, workers of a local oil terminal Qeshm Island were on strike and continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 126th day of the uprising.
Reports from Isfahan showed farmers taking to the streets again, protesting and demanding answers from regime officials regarding their ongoing dilemmas. This is the third day this week that these protests are continuing, after these farmers time gathered outside the local governor’s office on Wednesday.
They’re seeking answers regarding water portions for their lands that have been left devastated due to the regime’s rerouting projects of local rivers for their projects, including malignant initiatives pursued by the IRGC.
January 19 – Isfahan, central #Iran
Local farmers are marching and protesting the regime's policies, demanding answers to their long-raised issues.#IranRevolution2023 #FreeIran2023 pic.twitter.com/8NuBJDhLCb— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 19, 2023
In the city of Izeh Khuzestan Province of southwest Iran locals gathered to mark the 40th day of Donya Farhadi’s murder by the regime’s oppressive security forces during the Iran revolution protests. Such ceremonies are becoming scenes of anti-regime protests.
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.
