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Protesters across Iran launch new protests, attacks as economic woes increase

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Retirees - pensioners - telecom industry - protest rally - Bandar Abbas - Hormozgan Province - Iran - May 29, 2023
Retirees of the regime's telecom industry protesting low pensions and poor economic conditions - Bandar Abbas, southern Iran - May 29, 2023

Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 258th day on Wednesday as people from strata of Iran’s society are protesting their economic woes. The regime’s corrupt policies and incompetence, and the mullahs’ continued support for terrorism while wasting billions on their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs have plunged tens of millions of people into poverty across Iran. This has become a major source of security concerns for the regime and their oppressive forces that are focused on keeping a lid on the country’s restive society.

In parallel to these concerning circumstances, brave youths in different cities have been constantly targeting regime sites in their attacks. A state police station in Bushehr of southern Iran and a building of the regime’s so-called judiciary in Karaj are the latest targets.

And following a series of escalating global backing for the Iranian people, the majority of the Slovenian Parliament has issued a statement announcing their support for the Iranian people’s uprising and the ten-point plan of Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

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.

Brave youths in the city of Bushehr, southern Iran, attacked a base of the regime’s oppressive State Security Forces on Monday night. This attack led to at least one explosion in this site.

In the city of Karaj, located west of the capital Tehran, brave youths attacked a building of the regime’s so-called judiciary on Monday night. This attack also resulted in at least one explosion at the site. More details and footage will be provided when available.

The majority of the Slovenian Parliament have issued a statement indicating their support for the ten-point plan of NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi and the Iranian people’s demand for a democratic republic. A former Slovenian prime minister, three leaders of the country’s political parties, eight members of the Slovenian Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, and a former Slovenian defense minister are among the signatories of this statement.

The majority of the Slovenian Parliament, consisting of 47 members of this 90-member body, emphasize that the Iranian people, with their slogans during the nationwide uprising, have made crystal clear their rejection of any form of dictatorship, including the ousted Shah and the current religious despotism, including any ties with these two forms of dictatorships.

The Slovenian MPs strongly condemn the regime’s crackdown measures against Iranian protesters that led to the killing of over 700 demonstrators and the apprehension of more than 30,000 others and called for an immediate halt to the killings and executions.

The Slovenian Parliament majority declared that the NCRI’s ten-point plan that Madam Rajavi announced two decades ago consists of the same values that they in democratic countries defend.

Three inmates in Rajaie Shahr Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, were executed early Wednesday morning, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Two of the victims have been identified as Hossein Rousta and Nader Nouri. State media and those associated to the regime’s judiciary have yet to report these executions.

Reports also indicate that a Baluch prisoner by the name of Amir Narouie was executed early this morning in Zabol Central Prison of Sistan & Baluchestan Province in southeast Iran.

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Iran’s regime has executed at least three inmates in Rajaie Shahr Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran – May 31, 2023

Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the city of Ahvaz in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran are holding a protesting 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.

Deaf individuals in the city of Mashhad in northeast Iran held a protest rally on Wednesday demanding regime authorities acknowledge their rights based on the state’s own laws.

On Sunday, another group of disabled individuals were rallying outside the regime’s Majlis (parliament) in the capital Tehran demanding answers about the government’s budget regarding the country’s disabled individuals and they’re seeking adequate living conditions. The protesters were saying the regime has long cancelled necessary budgets that would provide for their basic needs.

Local storeowners in the city of Semirom in Isfahan Province, central Iran, were on strike on Tuesday protesting the regime’s unjust accusations against two political prisoners whose brother was killed by regime forces during the protests of the Iranian revolution.

A large number of the personnel working at the Nabi Akram Hospital in Asaluyeh, southern Iran, held a protest gathering on Tuesday to follow up on their demands.

Official oil workers in the city of Hashtrud and fire fighters in southern Iran were holding gatherings on Tuesday protesting the regime’s refusal to acknowledge their rights even based on their own laws.

Regime authorities in Qods City of Tehran Province stationed their oppressive security units outside the Islamic Azad University – Qods Branch on Tuesday as the mullahs escalate their crackdown measures against universities across the country.

Students of Khajeh Nasir Toosi University in Tehran were protesting oppressive measures by the dean of the Electric College on Tuesday. The head of security even attacked a number of the students, according to reports from local activists.

Retirees and pensioners of the country’s copper industry rallied outside the Presidential Office in Tehran on Tuesday demanding the independence of the Pension Fund of National Iranian Copper Industries Institute.

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.

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