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Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 153rd day on Wednesday as more people from different walks of life are taking to the streets and holding protest rallies over various dilemmas across the board. People are holding the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei directly responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive 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 the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 647 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Locals in the Mohammad Shahr district of Karaj, a major city located west of the capital Tehran, launched an attack targeting one of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij sites. The Basij is loathed across the country for their direct roles in the ongoing crackdown against the Iranian people, especially during the Iran revolution protests.
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
February 15 – Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the city's Mohammad Shahr district launched an attack targeting one of the regime's IRGC paramilitary Basij sites.#IranRevoIution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/P6qJksHKme— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 15, 2023
Workers of the Iran Shipbuilding & Offshore Industries Complex in Bandar Abbas, a major port city in southern Iran, are holding a gathering on Wednesday and protesting mismanagement, delayed paychecks, and other problems regarding their working and pay conditions.
Retirees and pensioners in the city of Tehran were rallying on Wednesday, protesting low pensions, poor insurance plans, and seeking adjustments based on skyrocketing prices and increasing inflation.
People in the city of Eslamabad-e-Gharb of Kermanshah Province are holding a gathering on Wednesday and protesting the local officials’ hollow promises on providing real estate.
February 15 – Bandar Abbas, southern #Iran
Workers of the Iran Shipbuilding & Offshore Industries Complex are protesting mismanagement, delayed paychecks, and other problems regarding their working conditions.#IranProtests2023 #اعتراضات_سراسرى pic.twitter.com/748aPtz1A9— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 15, 2023
People in Dehloran of Ilam Province, western Iran, sought to start anti-regime protests and demolish an IRGC paramilitary Basij statue at one of the city’s main square on Tuesday night, local activists say. Members of the regime security forces responded by opening fire and protesters returned fire, according to incoming reports. As a result of the clashes two members of the regime’s security forces and two protesters were injured, the activists added.
Despite the extremely cold winter conditions, on Tuesday night locals in Tehran’s Narmak and Niavaran Street districts, and the city of Karaj located west of the capital, began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Khamenei, have some shame! Let go of the country!”
In Tehran, defrauded investors of the Ramak Khodro auto company held a rally on Tuesday and began protesting to demand their stolen investments returned.
In the city of Qom, parents of students in at least 12 all-girls schools held a gathering on Tuesday and were protesting their children falling ill one after another. There are allegations of intended food poisoning, and the parents are demanding answers.
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi condemned this ongoing crisis as innocent students are left in despair due to the regime’s misogynist policies.
“Female students’ chain poisoning in Qom for over three months, and now in Tehran, is no accident but a systematic crime driven by a misogynistic regime’s malicious intent. The young Iranian women’s role in the uprising has doubled the regime’s hysteria. Urging an international investigation,” the NCRI President-elect tweeted.
Female students' chain poisoning in Qom over 3 months, now in Tehran, is no accident but a systematic crime driven by a misogynistic regime's malicious intent. Iranian girls’ role in the uprising has doubled the regime's hysteria. Urging an international investigation.#Iran pic.twitter.com/dPPgM0Q44p
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 14, 2023
Retirees and pensioners in the city of Qazvin of northwest Iran were rallying on Tuesday, protesting low pensions, poor insurance plans, and seeking adjustments based on skyrocketing prices and increasing inflation. A similar gathering was held in Hamadan, and also Karaj where retirees and pensioners from Alborz Province were protesting for answers to their demands.
On Tuesday, contract workers involved with the city municipality in Tabriz, northwest Iran, were protesting recent plans by regime officials that will make it very difficult for them to make ends meet.
Workers of a copper mine in the city of Sirjan of Fars Province in south-central Iran were on strike on Tuesday for a fifth consecutive day, gathering outside the local governor’s office. They’re protesting paycheck delays that have continued for months and their inadequate insurance pensions that are depriving themselves and their families of the healthcare they need and deserve.
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.
