Protests by people from all walks of life continue their protests in Iran despite the mullahs’ regime taking grave measures in an effort to confront the restive society, including an extending wave of executions. The country’s nosediving economy is pushing more Iranians into poverty while tens of millions across the country are already barely able to make ends meet.
As this confrontation inside Iran continues, elected officials in the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement announcing their support for the Iranian people’s revolution and the ten-point plan of Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). This is in line with similar support and solidarity by the majorities of parliaments across Europe, including Slovenia, Iceland, and Scotland.
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.
#IranProtests at a Glance- Wednesday, June 7, 2023 #IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/VlbrGdzkkl
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) June 8, 2023
New reports indicate brave youths in the city of Urmia in northwest Iran attacked a building of the regime’s so-called judiciary as a message in response to today’s visit by regime President Ebrahim Raisi to this part of the country. At least one explosion is being reported from this site.
In the city of Qazvin, brave youths attacked a base of the regime’s State Security Forces’ Special Anti-Riot Unit. This attack is being described as a response to today’s executions in this city and Zahedan in southeast Iran. At least one explosion is being reported from this site.
Brave youths in the city of Shahreza of Isfahan Province in central Iran attacked a base of the IRGC premilitary Basij units, according to reports. This attack, resulting in at least one major explosion at the site, is being described as a response to the mullahs’ recent wave of executions. More information will be provided when available.
Shahreza, Isfahan Province, central #Iran
Brave youths attacked a base of the IRGC premilitary Basij units. This attack, resulting in at least one major explosion at the site, is being described as a response to the mullahs’ recent wave of executions.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/ojV1pBSAa6— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 8, 2023
More than 1,220 City Council members from 270 cities across the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement voicing their support for the Iranian people’s anti-regime uprising and the ten-point plan of Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi for a free and democratic republic in Iran. The signatories emphasized on their solidarity with the Iranian people and standing shoulder to shoulder with them in their struggle for a democratic republic based on separation of religion and state in which no individual enjoys privileges over others based on family relations or religion.
This statement supports the Iranian people’s demand of establishing a democratic republic in Iran and reiterates the fact that the Iranian people, in the slogans voiced in their recent uprising, reject any and all forms of dictatorship, including the ousted Shah’s regime and the current religious tyranny ruling Iran. The Iranian people also reject any ties with these two dictatorships.
The signatories of this statement condemn the crackdown against Iranian protesters that led to the killing of over 750 demonstrators and the apprehension of over 30,000 others and demand a complete halt in the killing of demonstrators.
The ten-point plan of NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), announced over two decades, acknowledges and respects the same values that the people of democratic countries defend, the signatories highlighted.
UK City Council Members Support Iranian People's Uprising#Iran #IranRevolution #FreeIran2023 pic.twitter.com/nLhI05Id0c
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 8, 2023
The Iranian people’s brave uprising is a result of the country’s explosive circumstances due to expanding poverty and the regime’s crackdown, corruption, and segregation on the one hand, and an organized anti-regime resistance movement that has spread across the country for more than four decades.
In the summer of 1988 alone more than 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were MEK members and supporters, were massacred in barbaric fashion, the statement adds. The signatories also condemn the continued meddling of the religious despotism ruling Iran in regional countries and Europe, including the mullahs’ recent terror plots and cyberattacks in Albania.
The statement calls on the international community to stand alongside the Iranian people in their effort to bring about change in Iran, and adopt firm measures against the current regime, including designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization and holding the regime accountable for its crimes against humanity.
Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the cities of Shush and Ahvaz in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, were rallying and holding a gathering on Wednesday demanding their rights while protesting their low pensions.
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.
June 7 – Shush, southwest #Iran
Retirees and pensioners of the regime's Social Security Organization protesting and voicing their economic woes.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/9R2OaNhkLzpic.twitter.com/PtJcCqvvjr— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 7, 2023
A number of locals who have bought homes from state companies in the city of Zanjan in northwest Iran held a rally on Wednesday protesting construction delays and their cases being left in limbo as regime officials refuse to acknowledge and/or reply the matter.
Defrauded investors in Varamin of Tehran Province held a gathering on Wednesday demanding their stolen money be returned. Authorities responded by dispatching anti-riot units to attack and disperse the crowd.
June 7 – Varamin, Tehran Province, #Iran
Defrauded investors held a gathering to demand their stolen money be returned. Authorities responded by dispatching anti-riot units to attack and disperse the crowd.#IranRevolutionpic.twitter.com/9hVxNbLpvI— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 7, 2023
Latest reports indicate two inmates were executed today in the prisons of Qazvin (northwest Iran) and Zahedan (southeast Iran), according to the Iran Human Rights Center. Houshang Amirzadeh was hanged in Qazvin Central Prison after being arrested three ago and sentenced to death on drug-related charges. Alidoust Samalani, 45, from the city of Zabol in southeast Iran, was in prison for the past two years and hanged today in Zahedan Central Prison.
A woman held in Urmia Central Prison of northwest Iran has been transferred to solitary confinement on Thursday in preparation to be executed, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Other reports indicate that two male inmates in this facility have also been transferred to incommunicado and activists believe they could be executed late Thursday or early Friday morning local time.
Reports indicate two inmates were executed early Wednesday morning in Karaj Central Prison, located in Iran’s Alborz Province and west of the capital Tehran, according to the Iran Human Rights Center. One of the individuals has been identified as Einollah Badrinezhad and the two were transferred to be executed on June 3. This same source indicates two other inmates have been transferred to solitary confinement on Wednesday in preparation for their execution.
Two inmates by names of Malek Baluch Mahani and Kambiz Barzekar held in Kerman Central Prison located in south-central Iran were executed early Tuesday morning in this facility, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Around 150 people have been executed across the country by the mullahs’ regime from May 1 to this day.
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.
June 7 – Vienna, Austria
Freedom-loving Iranians and #Iran opposition MEK supporters held a gathering outside the IAEA HQ during the Board of Governors' meeting.
Their placard reads:
"Enough with Appeasement—Activate the Trigger Mechanism"pic.twitter.com/rq2eRloAaT— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 7, 2023
