Workers in various industries and different cities of Iran were seen protesting for their rights on Thursday. Many such protests are being held across the country as people are demanding their delayed paychecks, protesting low pensions, and seeking answers from regime officials as the country’s economic continues its dangerous nosedive.
While marking the 232nd day of the country’s nationwide uprising, 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.
Brief on Iran Nationwide Uprising- Thursday, May 4, 2023 #IranRevoIution #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/AB2HK089Qw
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) May 5, 2023
The people of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan, are taking to the streets again today following their weekly Friday prayers. They have launched a large demonstration in the city streets and are chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Khamenei is a murderer! We have nothing to eat!”
“Basij and IRGC members, you are our ISIS!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we stand to the end!”
“My martyred brother, I will avenge your blood!”
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
“We don’t want a corrupt system! We don’t want a murdering leader!”
“I will kill those who killed my brother!”
May 5 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
During their march protesters carried a large banner that read: "The monarchy and the Velayat-e Faghih (rule of the Supreme Leader) – 100 years of injustice."#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/O57AleXkXW— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 5, 2023
Authorities have been stationing their units in the city streets and arresting a large number of the locals in the past two days. These measures have been aimed at installing fear among the public and prevent them from joining today’s protest rally and marches in the city streets.
The brave Baluchis have taken to the streets today despite the fact that regime authorities executed at least 20 of members of Iran’s Baluchi community in the past six days alone.
May 5 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Locals have taken to the streets in anti-regime demonstrations and are chanting slogans including:
"Khamenei is a murderer! We have nothing to eat!"#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/jy8kSbLkdM— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 5, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi praised the courageous people of Zahedan and Iran’s Baluchi community for continuing their anti-regime protests today despite the regime’s recent wave of horrific executions parallel to numerous other crackdown measures aimed at silencing the Iranian people, especially the brave Baluchi community.
I commend the arisen people of #Zahedan who demonstrated in their courageous uprising today that the criminal executions and blind arrests have not only failed to disrupt the determination of Baluch compatriots in their struggle against the mullahs' regime but have made them more… pic.twitter.com/mLRik1iqxD
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) May 5, 2023
Contract workers of the Arik Sanat Company in Isfahan, central Iran, are on strike today and joining the ongoing nationwide labor campaign, protesting their officials’ refusal to increase their salaries.
Contract workers of the Arik Sanat Company in #Iran are on strike and joining the ongoing nationwide labor campaign, protesting their officials' refusal to increase their salaries.#IranNationwideStrikes
#اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/K7l2a7JILu— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 5, 2023
Workers and employees of the Pars Paper Company in Haft Tappeh of Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, were on strike on Thursday protesting low paychecks, not having permanent contracts, long working hours, double shifts without breaks, and having no leave from work.
Local railway workers in Kerman Province, central Iran, were on strike on Thursday protesting officials’ refusal to address their demands. Many of them have had many paychecks delayed for a long time now.
Local farmers rallied outside the governor’s office in the city of Lamerd in Fars Province of south-central Iran on Thursday protesting the regime’s policies of pricing their wheat and officials refusing to purchase from them.
May 4 – Haft Tappeh, southwest #Iran
Workers and employees of the Pars Paper Company are on strike protesting low paychecks, not having permanent contracts, long working hours, double shifts without breaks, and having no leave from work.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/kcNNRAAiL0— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 4, 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.