Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 252nd day on Thursday as people from different sectors of the society in various cities are continuing their anti-regime protests. The country’s nosediving economy, thanks to the mullahs’ corrupt and/or destructive policies, or lack of any policies at all, is pushing more and more people into poverty. The country’s truck drivers, who are also barely making ends meet, are expanding their nationwide strike into the fourth day today as their demands have been falling on deaf ears among the mullahs’ incompetent and crooked regime.
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, May 24, 2023 #IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/Bz3BnjvUCv
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) May 25, 2023
During the past few days at least nine death row inmates in the prisons of Kerman, Urmia, Jiroft, Sanandaj, and Isfahan have been executed, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Early Thursday morning local time two inmates by the names of Qader Bakhsh Dehghani, 39, married with children and from Zahedan, and Abdulrasoul Jamshidi, 55, married with children and from Fars Province, were executed in Kerman Prison.
On this same day another inmate by the name of Ali Piri, 40, was executed in Urmia Central Prison. He had been on death row for three years.
Two inmates were also executed on Thursday in Jiroft Prison. They have been identified as Mehdi Salari from Jiroft and Mohammad Daraie (Golbache), 30, from Zahedan. Prior to this, two inmates by the names of Majid Jafari and Ali Tabib were executed on Tuesday in Dastgerd Prison of Isfahan.
Further reports indicate that an inmate by the name of Saeed Mohmmadi-far has been executed today in Sanandaj Central Prison. Additionally, Amir Mehdi was hanged in public today in the city of Maragheh in northwest Iran.
Iran’s state media and those associated with the regime’s so-called judiciary have yet to provide any reports regarding these hangings.
May 25 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Negin-e Gharb district began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
"Down with the dictator!"
"Down with the state of executions!"#IranRevoIutionpic.twitter.com/Ly5JgiB7k6— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 25, 2023
Defrauded real estate owners in Tabriz, northwest Iran, who’ve seen their lands confiscated by the regime held a gathering on Thursday and are protesting for their rights.
May 25 – Tabriz, northwest #Iran
Defrauded real estate owners who've seen their lands confiscated by the regime are protesting for their rights.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/dZ9CtCLM2i— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 25, 2023
Labor activists were reporting that on Wednesday truck drivers in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, were continuing their strike for the third consecutive day. There is a growing momentum in the truckers’ nationwide strike in Iran with reports from more cities.
Truck drivers in the city of Bandar Khomeini in southwest Iran have joined the truckers’ nationwide strike and are continuing this initiative for the third consecutive day.
In other reports from Rostam (Momaseni) in Fars Province, south-central Iran, five years after a local sugar cube factory was shut down, the workers of this site are continuing to demand their unpaid salaries.
May 24 – Bandar Khomeini, southwest #Iran
Truck drivers in this city have joined the truckers' nationwide strike and are continuing this initiative for the third consecutive day.#IranNationwideStrikes pic.twitter.com/gtckNj8vvK— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 24, 2023
Families of death row inmates rallied outside the regime’s main judiciary building in Tehran on Wednesday demanding officials halt the execution process of their loved ones. In response, regime authorities dispatched units to attack the crowd and arrest several of the family members.
May 24 – Tehran, #Iran
Families of death row inmates rallied outside the regime's main judiciary building. Authorities dispatched units to attack the crowd. Several were arrested.#StopExecutionsInIran#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/sP3hlS0Uky pic.twitter.com/Whf7GOHFOI— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 24, 2023
Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization from the cities of Shush and Ahvaz, the latter being the provincial capital of Khuzestan, 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.
May 24 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
Retirees and pensioners of the regime's Social Security Organization protesting and voicing their economic woes.#IranProtests2023pic.twitter.com/1g1roIyszFpic.twitter.com/IlZfLliVwv— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 24, 2023
Landowners in the country’s capital Tehran held a gathering on Wednesday protesting the refusal by regime authorities to allow them to launch construction projects on their real estate.
100 days after the earthquake in Khoy, northwest Iran, most of the locals don’t have any money or adequate shelter. That is why many cannot afford to live in a house and are forced to remain in tents.
100 days after the earthquake in Khoy, northwest #Iran, most of the locals don't have any money or adequate shelter. That is why many cannot afford to live in a house and are forced to remain in these tents. pic.twitter.com/n8tyxmbSCu
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 24, 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.
May 24 – Brussels, Belgium
Freedom-loving Iranians and #Iran opposition MEK supporters demonstrating against Tehran's regime and condemning the mullahs' recent surge in executions.#IranRevoIution #StopExecutionsInIran pic.twitter.com/GNu9qaRZNe— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 24, 2023
