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The revolution in Iran is marking its 100th day on Saturday since the day when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish woman, was killed in police custody after being arrested for not properly covering her hair.
Ever since that day Iran has been witnessing unprecedented and relentless anti-regime protests that have evolved into a nationwide call for an end to the mullahs’ regime. Protesters in streets across the country are chanting anti-regime slogans including “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the dictator!” referring directly to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 280 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 601 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
On Saturday morning, employees of the local Real Estate Registration Organization are on strike in cities across the country. This includes the cities of Mashhad, Yazd, Khalkhal, Izeh, Azna, Dorud, Aligudarz, Takestan, Haftgel, Khorramdasht, Ramhormoz, Joghatay, among others.
In Tehran’s Tehranpars district, a group of students held a protest rally, chanting “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the dictator!”
December 24 – #Iran
Employees of the local Real Estate Registration Organization are on strike in cities across the country.Mashhad—Yazd—Khalkhal—Izeh—Azna—Dorud—Aligudarz—Takestan—Haftgel—Khorramdasht—Ramhormoz—Joghatay#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/9uzzDD3c6L
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 24, 2022
In other reports from Tehran, locals began chanting “Death to the dictator!” in the City Theater Metro Station and security forces responded by firing tear gas into the building. Protesters in the Narmak district of the Iranian capital also took to the streets and began chanting: “Khamenei, you dictator! We will bury you!”
Similar rallies are being reported from the city of Saqqez, Mahsa Amini’s hometown in Kurdistan Province, western Iran.
December 24 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals chanting "Death to the dictator!" at the City Theater Metro Station while security forces fire tear gas into the building.#IranRevolution2022pic.twitter.com/nXIembYjxS— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 24, 2022
In Sanandaj, protesters lit fires at the Nabbovat square and chanted anti-regime slogans. In Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city located in northeast Iran, protesters marched in streets and chanted “Death to the dictator!” In Karaj, locals held protest rally despite heavy snowfall. In Isfahan, protesters marched in the streets at night.
December 24 – Mashhad, northeast #Iran
Protesters chanting: "Death to the dictator!"
"Death to Khamenei!"#IranRevolution2022pic.twitter.com/6Fkpq0KjkX— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 24, 2022
Iran’s Baluchi community launched their weekly Friday rallies yesterday following their mass prayers and took to the streets for anti-regime demonstrations. Such protests are being reported from different cities across the vast Sistan & Baluchestan province of southeast Iran.
On Friday morning brave protesters in the city of Zahedan and Rask launched a massive demonstration against the mullahs’ regime as people left their mosques following the Friday prayers and began chanting anti-regime slogans. A large crowd of demonstrators in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan & Baluchestan Province, were seen chanting a variety of slogans, including “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the dictator!” along with other slogans condemning the regime’s security forces and the mullahs’ countrywide crackdown measures.
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed Iran’s Baluchi community for continuing their anti-regime protests once again on Friday.
“Our fellow Baluch compatriots came to the streets in Zahedan. They rebuffed the regime and its accomplices with chants of ‘Death to Khamenei!’ ‘My dear brother, we will take back your blood,’ and ‘We will not surrender; we will die or be victorious,’” the NCRI President-elect explained.
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.
