Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 241st day on Sunday as people from various sectors of the society have been protesting the regime’s policies, especially as the economy continues to crumble. The country’s pensioners and retirees are also making calls for another round of nationwide protests today to voice their demands.
Regime officials are concerned as these types of social/economic protests are usually the prelude to vast nationwide rallies that lead to political demands and people voicing their outrage of the mullahs’ apparatus in its entirety. Parallel to these protests the regime is continuing its recent surge of executions by sending more inmates to solitary confinement and relentlessly hanging others. Reports indicate at least eight executions carried out in Kerman Central Prison in south-central on Saturday and Sunday, according to reports from various sources, including the Hengaw Human Rights Organization and the Human Rights Activists News Agency. The mullahs’ regime has executed 81 inmates since April 21.
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.
Iran Protests at a Glance- Saturday, May 13, 2023#IranRevoIution #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/DQBXu1wO34
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Brave youths attacked an IRGC paramilitary Basij base in the city of Fuman in Gilan Province, northern Iran, on Sunday night in response to the regime’s brutal executions under Khamenei’s direct orders. This includes six executions in the city of Kerman in south-central Iran on Saturday alone.
MEK Resistance Units in Tehran portrayed a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and Iranian opposition coalition President-elect Maryam Rajavi near the capital’s Imam Ali Expressway at 10 pm local time on Thursday night.
May 11 – Tehran, #Iran
MEK Resistance Units portrayed a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and Iranian opposition coalition President-elect @Maryam_Rajavi near the capital's Imam Ali Expressway at 10 pm local time.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/66TyB5neVl— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 14, 2023
In the city of Isfahan in central Iran that families are gathering outside the city’s Dastgerd Prison as reports indicate regime authorities are preparing to execute three inmates at early Monday morning local time. Family members are gathering near the vicinity of this prison in an attempt to protest and prevent these executions. Activists are reporting that regime security forces are resorting to firing tear gas to disperse the gathering family members. Updates indicate authorities are imposing major internet disruptions in the area outside of Dastgerd Prison to prevent activists from reporting the events and posting footage from the scenes.
May 14 – Isfahan, central #Iran
People are rallying outside Isfahan Central Prison as reports indicate regime authorities are preparing to execute three inmates early Monday morning local time.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/zf96WVP3FU— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 14, 2023
Locals in the Ekbatan and Shahrak-e Bagheri districts of the capital Tehran began chanting anti-regime slogans on Sunday night, including:
“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with Khamenei!”
May 14 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital began chanting anti-regime slogans, including "Down with the dictator!"#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/ti2NZxpQOg— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 14, 2023
Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the cities of Shush, Haft Tappeh, and Karkheh in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, are holding a gathering on Sunday demanding their rights while protesting their low pensions. Similar rallies are being reported in Kermanshah, Kerman, Ahvaz, Shiraz, Karaj, Shushtar, Arak, and Isfahan.
Pensioners and retirees are among the worst-hit segments of Iran’s society. They depend on government stipends to make ends meet, but the regime has refused to increase their pensions in correspondence with growing inflation and the depreciation of the national currency.
The government has long provided many hollow promises of increasing pensions. It was also supposed to settle unpaid pensions remaining from previous years. So far, it has yet to deliver on both demands.
Interestingly, the regime’s own media reported that The Social Security Investment Company (SHASTA), the financial institution that is supposed to fund retirees, has seen a significant increase in its profits in the past years. However, these profits have yet to materialize in the lives of pensioners and retirees.
May 14 – Shush, southwest #iran
More footage of retirees and pensioners of Shush, Haft Tappeh, Karkheh are holding a gathering demanding their rights while protesting their low pensions.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/9OmBfKfycNpic.twitter.com/yvNeWG8kRV— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 14, 2023
Incoming reports on Sunday indicate regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting the all-girls Alizadeh High School in the Nayser district of Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan in western Iran. A number of the students have been poisoned and transferred to medical centers to receive urgently needed treatment.
In other reports, eight labor activists who work at various oil, gas, and petrochemical sites in the South Pars area in southern Iran were arrested on Sunday under the charges of leading the recent strike in the South Pars industrial sites. These labor activists have been arrested while workers have been demanding higher salaries as the country’s inflation continues to rise and prices of basic goods and services are skyrocketing.
The regime’s police chief in Khash, a city in the restive Sistan & Baluchestan Province in southeast Iran, is reporting that Captain Yaser Abduli, the deputy police intelligence chief in this city, has been killed on Sunday in an armed conflict with unidentified armed men, according to the regime’s official IRNA news agency.
It is worth noting that two weeks ago Major Alireza Shahraki, police chief in the city of Saravan, also in Sistan & Baluchestan Province, was killed in an armed attack.
May 14 – Sanandaj, western #Iran
Aftermath of regime operatives launching a chemical gas attack targeting the all-girls Alizadeh High School in the Nayser district.#IranChemicalAttackspic.twitter.com/GgHPLP3l3g— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 14, 2023
Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack on Saturday targeting the all-girls Ommat School in the capital’s Tehranpars district. A number of the students were poisoned and needed medical attention.
Tehran University students began rallying on Saturday, protesting campus security measures imposing strict attire (hijab) rules and regulations on female students. Similar scenes, protests, and scuffles were reported from the Isfahan Art University in central Iran.
Retirees of the state oil company in Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan, were holding a gathering on Saturday protesting for their rights to be respected and acknowledged.
Firefighters in the city of Mashhad in northwest Iran were on strike and held a rally on Saturday protesting their low paychecks and resulting poor living conditions.
May 13 – Tehran, #Iran
Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting the all-girls Ommat School in the capital's Tehranpars district. A number of the students are poisoned.#IranChemicalAttacks pic.twitter.com/QVBh9IogEa— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 13, 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.
May 13 – Washington, DC
Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the #Iran opposition PMOI/MEK rallied in solidarity with #IranRevolution and condemned the regime's recent surge in executions.#StopExecutionsInIran#No2ShahNo2Mullahs pic.twitter.com/rPEHeNoqhN— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 14, 2023
