Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 217th day on Thursday as more schools across the country are being targeted in chemical gas attacks by regime operatives. The mullahs’ dictatorship is desperate to keep a lid on the country’s extremely restive society and one method implemented in pursuit of this objective has been to target Iran’s innocent schoolgirls that were one of the main engines behind the anti-regime uprising that sparked in September 2022.
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 19 – Hamadan, western #Iran
Aftermath of regime operatives launching a chemical gas attack targeting the Chamran School, leaving a number of students poisoned and in need of medical care.#IranChemicalAttacks pic.twitter.com/IafvQKLZJz— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 19, 2023
Protesters and brave youth in the city of Karun, located in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, launched an attack early Wednesday morning local time targeting the regime’s main police station south of Ahvaz in the Kut Abdullah district. This attack, which resulted in a number of explosions at the site, was in response to the regime’s organized and deliberate chemical gas attacks that have left hundreds of innocent schoolgirls poisoned.
The state police headquarters in Karun is missioned to control and quell any signs of anti-regime protests seen among the people of the Kut Abdullah district in the city of Karun. Due to the fact that the locals in this area have long lived in poverty and have a history of anti-regime protests, the mullahs’ regime has always stationed it’s most oppressive and ruthless State Security units to crackdown on the people’s protests and demonstrations.
Nurses of Rajaie Hospital in Qazvin, northwest Iran, are rallying on Thursday and protesting their delayed paychecks and pensions. In other protest reports, drivers of various service vehicles in the city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, are protesting on Thursday and blocking the entrance gates of a local company after regime-associated officials refused to respond to their outstanding demands of poor work and living conditions.
Employees of the regime’s judiciary in the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and Gilan are holding gatherings on Thursday and protesting the country’s devastating economic circumstances. They are left unable to make ends meet and no official is willing to respond to their demands or even address their difficulties.
Protesters and brave youths in the city of Rudsar in Gilan Province, northern Iran, torched a large poster of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday.
April 20 – Rudsar, Gilan Province, northern #Iran
Protesters and local youths torched a large poster of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/IC9oBErlht— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 20, 2023
Investors of the fake online trading platform “King Money” held a protest rally in the Iranian capital on Thursday demanding their stolen money be returned. Those behind “King Money” deceived people by encouraging them to buy and invest in fake cryptocurrency on their fake website. Many in Iran are pointing their fingers at the IRGC in this regard.
Protesters and brave youths in the city of Kerman, south-central Iran, attacked an IRGC paramilitary Basij base in the early hours after midnight of Thursday local time.
Locals in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Shahrak-e Bagheri district began chanting anti-regime slogans on Thursday night, including:
“Down with Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
April 20 – Kerman, south-central #Iran
Protesters attacked an IRGC paramilitary Basij base in the early hours after midnight of Thursday local time.#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/KUZjYEhqrC— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 20, 2023
The all-girls Nasiri and Abuzar high schools in the city of Urmia, northwest Iran, were among the targets of chemical gas attacks by regime operatives on Wednesday. A large number of students were poisoned and transferred to medical centers to receive urgent attention, according to the Hengaw Human Rights Organization. Reports indicate other schools in different cities across the country were also targeted, including:
- The Chamran School in Hamadan, western Iran. Locals are accusing the regime’s IRGC as being behind this attack.
- The all-girls Peeshtazan High School in Dezful, southwest Iran
- The all-girls Ommat High School in the “Tehranpars” district of the Iranian capital Tehran. Local activists say this is the second time this specific school has been targeted in the regime’s chemical gas attacks.
April 19 – Urmia, northwest #Iran
Regime operatives launched chemical gas attacks targeting the all-girls Nasiri and Abuzar high schools, leaving a large number of students poisoned and in need of medical care.#IranChemicalAttacks https://t.co/X1fyU8UUOf— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 19, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi has condemned the misogynist regime’s chemical gas attacks targeting schools across the country and describes these measures as the regime’s response to fears of another popular uprising.
“Fearing an uprising by Iranian girls, women, and youth, Khamenei continued to commit the heinous crime of poisoning schoolgirls in Tehran and many other cities of Iran yesterday and today. But the people’s call for justice remains strong, as the chant ‘Khamenei, we will bring you down under the earth!’ echoes nationwide. This corrupt regime cannot escape history’s judgment and the inevitable overthrow by the Iranian people,” the NCRI President-elect explained.
Fearing an uprising by Iranian girls, women, and youth, Khamenei continued to commit the heinous crime of poisoning schoolgirls in Tehran and many other cities of #Iran yesterday and today. But the people's call for justice remains strong, as the chant “Khamenei, we will bring…
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 18, 2023
Farmers from across the province of Isfahan rallied in the provincial capital on Wednesday to launch marches and hold gatherings as they continued their protests for their fair share of water for their lands and crops. These farmers have long been demanding their rights and regime officials have continuously neglected their protests.
Regime security forces in the city of Abdanan in Ilam Province, western Iran, attacked a group of locals with tear gas on Wednesday, leaving a number of people poisoned and in need of medical care. One individual is in dire condition.
April 19 – Isfahan, central #Iran
More footage of farmers from across the province marching to protest for their fair share of water for their lands and other grievances that have gone unanswered by regime officials.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/wuxeKPPmot— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 19, 2023
Pensioners and retirees of the regime’s Social Security Organization in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, were rallying on Wednesday, protesting high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, poor living conditions and officials’ refusal to address their demands.
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.
April 19 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
More footage of pensioners and retirees of the regime's Social Security Organization protesting high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, poor living conditions and officials' refusal to address their demands.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/gJbEPSECs2— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 19, 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.
