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New protests spread across Iran and concern regime officials

By Mahmoud Hakamian
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Iran protests (file photo)

More protests are spreading across Iran despite the regime’s heavy crackdown measures and threats to impose massive financial fines on violators of strict dress code laws and other restrictions on the people’s basic rights. Iran’s economy is deep waters, and more people are not only living from paycheck to paycheck, but also finding it extremely difficult to make ends meet and put food on the table for their families.

On this 196th day of Iran’s nationwide uprising, people throughout the country 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.

In recently obtained reports, rebellious youth in Rasht, northern Iran, attacked the regime’s municipality building located in the city’s District 4 area on Wednesday night local time. The attack involved an explosion that resulted in a fire at the building.

MEK Resistance Units and rebellious youth also launched a new campaign of measures and attacks against the regime’s sites and interests in various cities across the country.

—Rebellious youth attacked a building in Mashhad used by the mullahs’ regime to promote their ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism. The attack led to a fire at the site.
—Rebellious youth attacked the regime’s Foreign Ministry Representative Office in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran. The attack led to a fire at the site.
—Rebellious youth attacked the so-called “Khomeini Relief Center” in the city of Kish in southern Iran. The attack led to a fire at the site.
—Rebellious youth attacked and threw Molotov cocktails at IRGC paramilitary Basij sites in the cities of Mashhad, Hamadan, Bushehr, and Mahabad. These attacks led to numerous fires at the targeted sites.
—MEK Resistance Units torched large images of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the cities of Yazd, Babol, and Qeshm.
—MEK Resistance Units torched a large image of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in Tehran.

Rebellious youth in Iran
Rebellious youth in Iran

MEK Resistance Units had launched marches in recent days and began chanting anti-regime slogans in Tehran and other cities, including Mashhad, Shiraz, Shahrekord, and Kashan. Their slogans included:
“Down with Khamenei! Hail to Rajavi!”
“The world should know that Massoud (Rajavi) is our leader. The National Liberation Army of Iran is our final response.”
“Down with oppressors, be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”
“Freedom will be established with the moto of ‘We can and we must’!”
“Democracy and equality with Maryam Rajavi!”
“No to monarchy! No to [mullahs’ regime]! Democracy and equality!”
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”

MEK Resistance Units also march in the city of Kashan, south-central Iran, while chanting: “We are the MEK and we’re fighting against the mullahs! Down with oppressors, be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”

Workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company in the city of Shush of Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran held a rally on Thursday protesting their extremely low paychecks determined by the regime’s Supreme Labor Council. These oppressed workers have long been holding rallies, including one yesterday, another on March 25, and also on March 11, protesting the company officials’ refusal to address their demands. These workers have vowed to continue their protests, scheduling their next rally for Friday.

The protesting workers were chanting:
“Haft Tappeh workers, unite, unite!”
“Iranian workers, unite, unite!”
“Workers would rather die than live in infamy!”
“Down with oppressors! Hail to workers!”

Locals in Tehran’s Shahrak-e Bagheri district began chanting anti-regime slogans on Wednesday night.

Passenger van drivers in Hamadan, western Iran, were on strike on Wednesday protesting poor economic conditions.

Pensioners and retirees of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the city of Shushtar in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, were rallying on Wednesday and protesting high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, poor living conditions and officials’ refusal to address their demands.

The protesting workers were chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Retirees would rather die than live in infamy!”
“We will not rest until our rights are acknowledged!”

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.

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi reiterated the determination of the Iranian people to continue their anti-regime campaign and revolution against the mullahs’ regime in its entirety with the objective of establishing freedom, democracy, and human rights in a secular republic across Iran.

“What is the answer to a regime that will stop at nothing to evade being overthrown? The answer lies in the organized protests, demonstrations, and uprisings led by Resistance Units and the Iranian people’s great Army of Freedom,” the NCRI President-elect explained.

“Meanwhile, the pseudo-solutions propped up by the interests opposed to those of the nation use the remnants of the toppled dictatorial regime, and those defecting the regime ranks to stage their theatrics. This political and social bankruptcy, as well as international disgrace, which has gripped the front of tyranny and dependence, is a result of the achievements of the Iranian people, their uprising, and the Resistance movement,” she added.

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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