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Iran’s nationwide revolution is marking its 157th day on Sunday as the Iranian people’s continued protests are supported through major rallies by freedom-loving Iranians in Munich. Supporters of the Iranian opposition coalition NCRI, with its cornerstone member the PMOI/MEK, have been holding demonstrations on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference this weekend in solidarity with Iran revolution protests and to relay the Iranian people’s opposition to any form of dictatorship. The thousands of MEK supporters are also voicing their growing support for NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi’s ten-point plan for the future of Iran and emphasized on the Iranian people’s opposition to a return to a monarchical rule.
On Sunday night, locals in Tehran’s various districts, including Jannat Abad and Narmak, districts began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“Death to the child-killing regime!”
February 19 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital are chanting:
"Death to Khamenei!"
"Death to the dictator!"
"Death to the IRGC!"
"This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/DZxsa2v3AY— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 19, 2023
Retirees and pensioners in the cities of Kermanshah, Isfahan, Ahvaz, Shushtar, Rasht, Kerman, Bandar Abbas, and Shush were rallying today, protesting low pensions, poor insurance plans, and seeking adjustments based on skyrocketing prices and increasing inflation.
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.
February 19 – Kermanshah, #Iran
Retirees and pensioners of the regime's Social Security Organization protesting low pensions and poor economic conditions.#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/GEclStJRDd— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 19, 2023
In Tehran, family members of death row inmates rallied again today outside the regime’s judiciary building protesting the death sentences and demanding answers from regime officials. There have been much such rallies held by family members of various inmates who travel from across the country to hold these gatherings in the country’s capital where children have been seen holding placards reading: “Don’t execute my dad!”
Bakery owners in the country’s capital are protesting on Sunday regarding the regime officials’ refusal to respond to their outstanding demands as living conditions continue to deteriorate.
In Yasuj, southwest Iran, municipality workers rallying outside the Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmed Province governor’s office are demanding their paychecks that have been delayed for the past eight months.
February 19 – Tehran, #Iran
Families of death row inmates rallied outside the regime's judiciary and called for a halt to the regime's executions.#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/aQ5vbKgcdz— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 19, 2023
Workers of a local train manufacturing company in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, are protesting on Sunday and voicing their anger over not receiving their paychecks for the past 18 months.
Local teachers in Tabriz, a major city in northwest Iran, are protesting regime officials’ refusal to respond to their outstanding demands regarding their extremely poor living conditions.
And in Yazd, central Iran, workers of the local Yazdbaf textile company, the largest of its kind in the Middle East, are protesting their low/delayed paychecks and poor living conditions on Sunday.
February 19 – Yazd, central #Iran
Workers of the local Yazdbaf textile company, the largest of its kind in the Middle East, are protesting their low/delayed paychecks and poor living conditions.#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/DSUlgoZQsE— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 19, 2023
On Saturday night, locals in Tehran’s Narmak and Fatemi districts were chanting anti-regime slogans, including: “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the dictator!”
In the city of Kermanshah, western Iran, protester were continuing the campaign of torching the regime’s propaganda billboards, posters, and banners. In Bushehr, a major city in southern Iran, protesters have reportedly attacked the entrance of the local governor’s office.
February 18 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Narmak district began chanting:
"Death to Khamenei!"
"Death to the dictator!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/97e8TEgLA6— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 18, 2023
People throughout the country are specifically holding 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 647 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Thousands of freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and its cornerstone member the PMOI/MEK, rallied in Munich on Friday and Saturday outside the annual Munich Security Conference.
Several political figures and members of the German Bundestag attended the Friday rally and delivered speeches supporting the Iranian people’s demands for freedom and democracy. The event shed more light on the growing international support for the Iranian people’s uprising and the Iranian opposition.
In this rally, freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance showed their growing solidarity with the brave men and women protesting on the streets of Iran for a democratic and secular republic. The demonstrators also emphasized on the Iranian people seeking a democratic republic and rejecting any kind of dictatorship, be it the mullahs or a return to that of the Shah’s regime.
Similar gatherings have been held by freedom-loving Iranians and MEK supporters in London, Toronto, and Vancouver.
February 18 – Munich, Germany
Freedom-loving Iranians and #Iran opposition PMOI/MEK supporters rallying for a second day.
"I support neither the Shah nor the [mullahs' regime]!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/OXySFErOly— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 18, 2023
These rallies continued on Saturday in Munich as freedom-loving Iranians and NCRI/MEK supporters continue relay the Iranian people’s demands to bring about regime change in their country and establish a republic based on freedom, democracy, and human rights.
February 18 – Munich, Germany
Freedom-loving Iranians and #Iran opposition PMOI/MEK supporters rallying for a second day to voice the will of Iran's people.#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/c8N4BIRsVe— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 18, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi highlighted the Iranian people’s determination to overthrow the mullahs’ dictatorship, continue looking forward, and establish a republic based on freedom, democracy, and human rights.
“We are reminded of the recent glorious uprising and the blood that still flows from the bodies of the Iranian people. The word of revolution has triumphed and broken the yokes of the Shah and the mullahs,” the NCRI President-elect explained.
We are reminded of the recent glorious uprising and the blood that still flows from the bodies of the Iranian people. The word of REVOLUTION has triumphed and broken the yokes of the Shah and the mullahs.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/WC0DAJ4PN7
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 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.
