Protests by people from different walks of life in Iran are continuing on this 226th day of the nationwide uprising following a busy day of demonstrations and protests by the brave Baluchis in the cities of Zahedan and Fanuj in Sistan & Baluchestan Province of southeast Iran.
Thousands of courageous locals in Zahedan took to the streets following their weekly Friday prayers and launched a major anti-regime demonstration with slogans specifically targeting the mullahs’ top echelons. In the town of Fanuj people are angry and continued their protests in response to the regime’s security forces attacking a number of locals and opening fire on protesters. At least seven people were killed and injured by the regime’s criminal forces.
People throughout Iran continue to specifically hold 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 675 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Brief on Iran Nationwide Uprising- Friday, April 28, 2023 #IranRevoIution #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/R5R1zJG2sf
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Brave protesters in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, attacked an IRGC site of Gilan Province on Friday. The “Quds 16th Operational Division” is one of the IRGC Ground Forces infantry divisions and has a long history in crackdown measures against the Iranian people, especially in the Kurdish areas of northwest Iran.
The 16th Operational Division is one of the main units in providing new recruits and forces for the IRGC Quds Force in their extraterritorial terrorism.
During the recent Iranian uprising that began in September 2022, the Quds 16th Operational Division was missioned to carry out various tasks in Gilan Province in order to reinforce the IRGC units in this area. Their forces attacked, arrested, and tortured numerous protesters of Rasht and Gilan Province in general.
April 28 – Rasht, northern #Iran
Brave youth attacked the “Quds 16th Operational Division”, one of the IRGC Ground Forces infantry divisions with a long history in crackdown measures against the Iranian people, especially in the Kurdish areas of northwest Iran.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/2I5NJPSAFz— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 1, 2023
MEK Resistance Units portrayed a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and Iranian opposition coalition President-elect Maryam Rajavi in the Blekoo Industrial Town of Yasuj in southwest Iran on Thursday night.
“Down with Khamenei, the murderer!”
April 29 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Ekbatan district were chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
"Down with Khamenei, the murderer!"#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/ZhtggYGb5U— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 29, 2023
A group of teachers held a rally outside the regime’s Education Ministry in Tehran on Saturday protesting their low paychecks and poor living conditions.
In other reports from the Iranian capital, at least two all-girls schools have been the target of the regime’s latest organized and deliberate chemical gas attacks. Many of the students are reportedly feeling extremely ill after being poisoned as a result of these latest attacks.
- The all-girls Sama High School near the Swiss Embassy
- An all-girls technical school
- The all-girls Mahdizadehnia Technical School in Mashhad, northeast Iran
April 29 – Tehran, #Iran
Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting an all-girls technical school. This is the second time this school has been targeted.#IranChemicalAttackspic.twitter.com/FIIgrnPyw6— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 29, 2023
Employees of the Montazeri power plant in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, are on strike and protesting their officials’ refusal to increase their paychecks despite the country’s skyrocketing inflation and devastating economic circumstances. They’re the latest site to join over 110 other industrial centers throughout the country who are on strike in 38 cities checkered across 13 provinces.
From Thursday, April 28, four thousand new workers will be replacing those workers who are on strike, according to Sekhavat Assadi, chief executive officer of the Pars Special Region Organization.
“In eight petrochemical projects of this special region a number of the seasonal workers have been on strike due to problems regarding their living conditions. At the end of their legal period, four thousand of these workers will be replaced with new workers,” Assadi on Saturday, according to the semi-official Entekhab news agency.
“[Khamenei] has named this year as the year of growth and prosperity in production. All the efforts of officials at the Pars Special Region is focused on all the projects to quickly be finalized and reach the production stage in order to realize maximum production,” he added, acknowledging that Khamenei himself is behind this plan to replace the workers who are on strike instead of agreeing to their rightful demands. This is completely against the interests of Iranian workers.
Isfahan, central #Iran
Workers of the Montazeri power plant have joined the #IranNationwideStrikes campaign and are protesting their officials' refusal to increase their salaries.pic.twitter.com/CBNALHbsKR— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 29, 2023
Brave people in the cities of Zahedan and Fanuj in Sistan & Baluchestan Province of southeast Iran were in the streets and launched anti-regime demonstrations on Friday following their weekly prayers. Demonstrators in Zahedan are rallying in large numbers and chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!”
“Khamenei, have some shame! Let go of the country!”
“Basij and IRGC, you are our ISIS!”
“My martyred brother! I will avenge your blood!”
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we stand to the end!”
“So many years of crimes! Down with the mullahs’ regime!”
Demonstrators in Fanuj rallied in their streets and clashed with the regime’s security forces, according to local activists. In this town regime security forces recently ran over four individuals and opened fire on the locals, leaving at least two killed and several injured. Regime security forces on Friday began responding to the crowd of demonstrators by using tear gas.
April 28 – Fanuj, southeast #Iran
Locals are protesting in the streets and clashing with regime security forces, according to local activists.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/RLkM3Efu2U— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 28, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi praised the people of Zahedan and Fanuj who rose up against the mullahs’ dictatorship and continued their anti-regime demonstrations.
“I commend our Baluch compatriots who rose up today in Zahedan to honor the fallen in Fanuj. They expressed their determination to continue their uprising until Khamenei is overthrown and all of Iran is free. In Fanuj, young protesters demanded justice, chanting ‘My fallen brother, I will avenge your blood.’ They clashed with the repressive forces. The only way to liberate Iran and all Iranians is to rise up and overthrow the mullahs’ regime. The Iranian people’s democratic revolution shall triumph,” the NCRI President-elect explained.
I commend our Baluch compatriots who rose up today in #Zahedan to honor the fallen in #Fanuj. pic.twitter.com/nMIRcV3eon
They expressed their determination to continue their uprising until Khamenei is overthrown and all of Iran is free.
In Fanuj, young protesters demanded justice,…— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 28, 2023
Groups of women in the cities of Tehran and Karaj held protest gatherings on Friday prior to May 1st to mark International Workers’ Day. They raised placards reading different slogans, including:
“From our homes to the factories, from schools to the streets, we stand for women’s rights!”
“Political prisoners must be released!”
Contract bus drivers of two companies in the Iranian capital Tehran went on strike on Friday, refusing to show up for work and protesting how their officials continue to withhold and deny them their paychecks.
April 28 – #Iran
Groups of women in Tehran and Karaj held protest gatherings prior to May 1st and raised placards reading:
"From our homes to the factories, from schools to the streets, we stand for women's rights!"
"Political prisoners must be released!"#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/TVTLk64JW8— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 28, 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.
