Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 201st day on Tuesday with protesters in various cities voicing their angers, especially regarding the regime’s destructive economic policies. In the midst of this unrest, the mullahs’ regime has once again launched chemical gas attacks targeting all-girls schools in different cities.
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.
April 4 – Tabriz, northwest #Iran
An all-girls school has been the target of a chemical gas attack and at least 20 students have been rushed to a hospital.#IranChemicalAttackspic.twitter.com/qdxHsYj1U5— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 4, 2023
Reports indicate an all-girls school in the city of Tabriz in East Azerbaijan Province has been the target of a chemical gas attack on Tuesday and at least 20 students of the “Hazrate Masoumeh School” have been rushed to the city’s Sina Hospital.
In other reports from the city of Naqadeh in West Azerbaijan Province, local activists are indicating that the all-girls Mahdi Elementary School and Moalem High School have been targeted in chemical gas attacks on Tuesday. Further reports indicate that an all-girls school in Dowlat Abad of Isfahan has also been the target of a chemical gas attack today and a number of ill students have been transferred to a hospital for medical attention.
Yesterday, the “22 Bahman Mohammadyar School” in Naqadeh was the target of this latest attack and at least five students in need of urgent medical care were taken to Naqadeh’s Imam Hospital.
April 3 – Naqadeh, western #Iran
An all-girls school has been the target of a chemical attack and at least five students have been rushed to a hospital.#IranChemicalAttacks pic.twitter.com/FTZqpoy0Zy— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 3, 2023
Locals in the Shahrak-e Bagheri district of Tehran began chanting anti-regime slogans on Monday night, including:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”
April 3 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Shahrak-e Bagheri district began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
"Down with Khamenei!"
"Down with the dictator!"
"Down with the child-killing regime!"#IranRevoIution #No2ShahNo2Mullahs pic.twitter.com/gqinjwN8OI— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 3, 2023
On Monday morning, retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in Ahvaz and Shush, southwest Iran, held gatherings and launched marches in their streets protesting high prices, inflation, low pensions, and other economic woes. They were chanting different slogans, including:
“High prices and inflation are killing the people!”
“Our rights will only be fulfilled if we take to the streets!”
“Incompetent Raisi, go back to the seminary!” referring regime President Ebrahim Raisi and his destructive economic policies, or lack thereof.
“Our enemy is right here! They lie in saying it’s America!”
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.
April 3 – Shush, southwest #Iran
More footage of retirees and pensioners of the regime's Social Security Organization marching and protesting high prices, inflation, low pensions, and other economic woes.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/klE7oNrvNq— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 3, 2023
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.
April 3 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
Retirees and pensioners of the regime's Social Security Organization marching and protesting high prices, inflation, low pensions, and other economic woes.#IranProtests2023pic.twitter.com/IZ1wiXVGlh— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 3, 2023
Teachers and educators in the city of Firouzeh in Razavi Khorasan Province, northeast Iran, held a gathering on Monday to and protesting poor economic conditions, their low and delayed paychecks, and demanding the release of their unjustly jailed colleagues. Teachers of the Mahmoud Kazemi School in the 2nd District of Hamadan in western Iran were also on strike today, protesting their delayed paychecks. Similar reports of protests by teachers received from the cities of Zarrindasht in Fars Province, Jam in Bushehr Province, and Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province.
April 3 – Firouzeh, Razavi Khorasan Province, northeast #Iran
Teachers held a gathering protesting their poor economic circumstances, and low and delayed paychecks.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/Q5qR2W97Bq— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 3, 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.
