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Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 205th day on Saturday as the mullahs’ regime escalates its measures to both crackdown on dissent across the country and install rifts among various sectors of the society. Internet clampdown continues as the city of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan in southeast Iran, witnessed major internet blackouts as authorities sought to prevent any reporting of protests from the city following the locals’ weekly Friday prayers.
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.
MEK Resistance Units portrayed a large image of Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi in the city of Dehdasht, Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad Province, in southwest Iran at 9:15 pm on Thursday night.
April 6 – Dehdasht, Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad Province, southwest #Iran
MEK Resistance Units portrayed a large image of @Maryam_Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition NCRI, at 9:15 pm on Thursday night.#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/ataWtQ5suW— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 8, 2023
MEK Resistance Units launched a variety of measures in memory of 36 MEK members killed by the Iranian regime’s proxies in Iraq on April 8, 2011, in Camp Ashraf of Iraq. MEK Resistance Units members in Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, Shiraz, Isfahan, Karaj, Rasht, Turkaman Sahra, Semnan, Lahijan, Gorgan, Shahroud, Kazerun, Bandar Abbas, Ardabil, Ilam, Astara, Zahedan, and Sabzevar gathered to commemorate the MEK martyrs and vow to continue their struggle to establish a free and democratic Iran.
MEK Resistance Units and protesters across Iran launched a series of measures against the mullahs’ regime in recent days. These actions include:
- Protesters attacked a “Khomeini Relief Committee” site in Hamadan, western Iran. There was an explosion at the site.
- Protesters torched IRGC paramilitary Basij bases in the cities of Arak and Amol, central and northern Iran, respectively.
- Protesters torched the office of Khamenei’s representative in the city of Kuhdasht, western Iran.
- Protesters torched the office of the IRGC paramilitary Basij – Student Branch in Amol, northern Iran.
- MEK Resistance Units torched large posters of Khamenei, regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini, and former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in the cities of Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, and Tonekabon.
- MEK Resistance Units torched large banners associated to the regime’s Intelligence Ministry in the city of Salmanshahr in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran.
- MEK Resistance Units torched a pro-regime propaganda billboard of the mullahs’ mandatory hijab rules in Amol, northern Iran.
Reports indicate a number of schools in different cities across have been targeted in a new string of chemical gas attacks by regime operatives. The list includes the all-girls Khayam School in Pardis of Tehran Province; two different attacks in the city of Divandarreh in western Iran; the Khalaban Zaker School and all-girls Me’raj School in Ardabil of northwest Iran; the all-girls Sa’adi School in Urmia of northwest Iran; and the all-girls Mohammad Ali Nasiri School in Qom of central Iran.
According reports by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the all-girls Shahed and Fadak schools in the city of Naqadeh in northwest Iran have also been targeted in chemical gas attacks by operatives of the mullahs’ regime.
April 8 – Ardabil, northwest #Iran
Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting the all-girls Me'raj School.#IranChemicalAttackspic.twitter.com/lAKXZ2CAGr— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 8, 2023
Nurses in Mashhad, northeast Iran, held a gathering on Saturday morning protesting the regime’s unjust policies that are delaying and decreasing their paychecks and pensions.
Nurses and assistant nurses of Imam Reza Hospital in Mashhad, northeast Iran, held a gathering on Wednesday protesting the regime’s unjust policies that are delaying and decreasing their paychecks and pensions. A similar gathering was held by medical staff of Mashhad’s Qaem Hospital, while personnel and employees of the city’s Construction Engineering Organization also held a gathering on Wednesday to voice their protests.
April 8 – Mashhad, northeast #Iran
Nurses held a gathering protesting the regime's unjust policies that are delaying and decreasing their paychecks and pensions.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/sGSl1QAfDW— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 8, 2023
In further reports of protests by people from different walks of society in Iran, workers of the Jolfa Aras Paraplastic Company in northwest Iran held a gathering demanding their delayed paychecks. In Isfahan, central Iran, farmers are rallying outside the local Water Department demanding their fair share of water for their lands and crops. And in the city of Neyshabur in northeast Iran, local teachers and educators were protesting the regime’s policies and demanding better methods guaranteeing the timely arrival of their monthly salaries.
In Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city in the country’s northeast, local taxi drivers rallied outside the Taxi Organization protesting the violation of their rights by regime officials.
April 8 – Isfahan, central #Iran
Farmers are rallying outside the local Water Department demanding their fair share of water for their lands and crops.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/IMFCFwvVxR— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 8, 2023
Confirming reports from local activists, Netblocks, the UK-based internet observatory organization tracking network disruptions and shutdowns across the globe, reported on Friday that “Real-time network data show a significant disruption to internet connectivity in Zahedan, Iran; the incident continues the weekly pattern of regional internet shutdowns targeting anti-government protests during Friday prayers.”
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1644258352807960576
Locals in Friday’s march in Zahedan held a banner reading: “Down with the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!” and a tract reading: “No to a monarchy! No to the [mullahs’ regime]! Democracy and equality!”
The local Baluchi community in the city of Galikesh in Golestan Province in northeast Iran launched a march protesting the regime’s crackdown against Sunni clerics and demanding their release from prison.
April 7 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Locals in today's march held a banner reading:
"Down with the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!"And a tract reading:
"No to a monarchy! No to the [mullahs' regime]! Democracy and equality!"#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/3zsLL9yiep— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 7, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi once again emphasized on the importance of women actively participating in political leadership and the struggle against the misogynist mullahs’ regime.
“With the emancipating word of ‘equality’ and with women’s active and equal participation in political leadership, we seek to turn this century in the name of women, into the century of emancipation of women and the humankind,” the NCRI President-elect reiterated.
With the emancipating word of “equality” and with women’s active and equal participation in political leadership, we seek to turn this century in the name of women, into the century of emancipation of women and the humankind.#WomenForce4Change pic.twitter.com/yTq54kiOaI
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 7, 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.
