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Iran’s protests escalate despite regime increasing brutal executions

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Telecom industry retirees - protests - low pensions - poor economic conditions - Arak, Iran - May 14, 2023
Telecom industry retirees protesting low pensions and poor economic conditions - Arak, central Iran - May 14, 2023

Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 243rd day on Tuesday as people from all walks of life are continuing their anti-regime protests. These rallies, gatherings, and strikes are continuing and gaining strength despite the fact that the mullahs’ regime has been increasing the number of brutal executions recently. Eight inmates in the cities of Bandar Abbas, Minab, Khorramabad, and Rasht were sent to the gallows. At least 90 inmates have been executed 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.

There are reports that regime authorities executed two inmates in Khorramabad Central Prison in Lorestan Province, western Iran, on Monday. The NCRI issued a statement indicating that the mullahs’ regime sent eight inmates to the gallows in the prisons of Khorramabad, Bandar Abbas, Minab, and Rasht. The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported on Monday that the names of the two victims in Khorramabad are Mohammad Paydar and Peyman Akbari Birgani, the latter being a young man from the city of Shushtar in southwest Iran.

Reports from Tehran indicate that families of death row inmates rallied outside the regime’s judiciary on Monday demanding a halt to the regime’s brutal execution of their loved ones. Children were at the rally holding signs reading: “Don’t execute my father!” and other were holding placards reading: “No to executions!”

Similar reports from Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan Province, southern Iran, showed families of death row inmates rallying outside the city prison in an attempt to prevent to prevent the execution of their loved ones.

Mojtaba Ghahremani, head of the regime’s judiciary in Hormozgan Province, said that five inmates were hanged early Monday morning in different prisons in the city of Bandar Abbas. According to reports obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, one of the inmates executed was Abdolrahman Mousa-Zehi, a 37-year-old Baluchi who lived in Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan.

According to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, following Monday’s executions in Iran, at least 240 prisoners across the country have been executed in 2023 by the mullahs’ regime. This includes nine political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, five women, and five foreign nationals. These figures also include 53 Kurdish and 50 Baluchi prisoners, according to the Hengaw report.

The mullahs’ regime increased the number of executions by 83 percent from 314 cases in 2021 to 576 in 2022, according to Amnesty International.

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi condemned the recent surge in executions and ensured that the Iranian people will overthrow the mullahs’ regime for this horrific bloodshed.

“The brutal executions continue throughout Iran. In recent days, Khamenei’s machinery of death has claimed the lives of even more individuals in the prisons of Bandar Abbas, Khorramabad, and Lakan of Rasht. I commend the courageous families who have fearlessly protested against these heinous executions outside the Judiciary’s building in Tehran, as well as in Bandar Abbas. There is no doubt that the enraged people of Iran will hold Khamenei and the leaders of the regime accountable for this senseless bloodshed,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.

Locals in different districts of Isfahan, a large city in central Iran, and Jannat Abad district of the capital Tehran began chanting anti-regime slogans on Tuesday night, including:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”
“Protests will not stop!”

The Oil Contract Workers’ Organizational Council of Protests has issued a statement regarding the ongoing nationwide strike by the country’s oil, gas, petrochemical steel, and mine workers that has continued for about a month now: “During this period different contract workers from across the country have left their workshops and other job sites to join the nationwide strike. As a result, tens of thousands of workers are involved in this movement.”

Authorities are announcing the arrest of strike leaders in an initiative aimed at increasing crackdown measures against the thousands of South Pars workers who are on strike in southern Iran. A deputy governor of Bushehr Province has claimed that the South Pars workers’ strike is an organized movement with “support from foreign networks”.

People in the city of Karaj, west of the Iranian capital Tehran, the Shahrak-e Bagheri district and an area near Evin Prison of Tehran were chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”
“We don’t want a child-killing regime!”
“We will stand to the end!”

Retirees of the regime’s telecom industry began a new wave of protests on Monday as these pensioners were seen holding gatherings and protesting the regime’s policies in the cities of Sanandaj, Bojnurd, Rasht, Arak, Isfahan, Ahvaz, Ilam, Shahrekord, Mashhad, and Khorramabad in western Iran.

This continues previous gatherings held during the past few weeks and months in Tehran and other cities across the country.

In the past few years, retirees across Iran have been protesting to their deteriorating living conditions, especially as the government refuses to adjust their pensions based on the inflation rate and fluctuations in the price of the rial, Iran’s national currency.

In other reports, workers of the IGC company in the Dashte Abbas area of Dehloran in Ilam Province, western Iran, have been on strike for nearly a month now while they have yet to receive their March salaries. Pressures and threats on the protesting workers continue.

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.

 

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