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Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 109th day on Monday with protests continuing in different cities across the country. These protests measures include holding gatherings, rallies, strikes, and establishing roadblocks on roads to take control of their streets and prevent regime authorities from dispatching their security forces to quell their movement. Protesters and courageous locals have also been using Molotov cocktails and home-made explosives to target the regime’s sites, along with statues and billboards symbolizing the mullahs’ authoritarian dictatorship. They’re specifically targeting regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his entire apparatus of oppressive forces.
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 601 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
On Monday, in the restive city of Javanrud in Kermanshah Province, western Iran, locals are reporting that regime authorities have dispatched many security units to their streets following the recent unrests. Internet connection is heavily disrupted, local activists add.
January 2 – Javanrud, western #Iran
Locals are reporting that regime authorities have dispatched many security units to the city following the recent unrests. Internet connection is heavily disrupted.#IranRevolution2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/1cHX0TulEI— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 2, 2023
In the city of Mahabad, northwest Iran, locals gathered to mark the 40th day of Shomal Khadiripour’s murder by the regime’s security forces began chanting:
“Death to Khamenei!”
“So many years of crimes! Death to the mullahs’ regime!”
“Kurds and Baluchis are brothers!” in solidarity with the Baluch of Sistan & Baluchestan Province.
“Death to the mullahs’ regime principle!”
The crowd continued their ceremony by heading into the town from the cemetery and launching a protest march against the mullahs’ dictatorship. Regime authorities have dispatched a large number of security forces to the city to prevent further anti-regime protests.
January 2 – Mahabad, northwest #Iran
Locals gathered to mark the 40th day of Shomal Khadiripour's murder by the regime's security forces began chanting: "Death to Khamenei!" #IranRevolution2023#شمال_خدیری_پورpic.twitter.com/4AKTGujI57— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 2, 2023
Protesters in various parts of Tehran have been busy torching various billboards and posters of Qassem Soleimani. Such measures are escalating across the country as more more and more Iranians are voicing their hatred of the regime, Qassem Soleimani, and anything symbolizing the mullahs’ rule. Similar attacks are being reported in the city of Sanandaj, western Iran.
January 2 – Tehran, #Iran
A large billboard of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani was burned at 6:30 am this morning.#IranRevolution2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/xy1mkPJ53W— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 2, 2023
Early reports on Sunday morning indicate that merchants and storeowners in the city bazaar of Javanrud are on strike in solidarity with the ongoing protests against the regime in this city and across the country. Similar strikes is being reported in a section of Tehran’s famous Grand Bazaar, Kermanshah, and Marivan in Kurdistan Province, western Iran.
At 5 am local time on Sunday morning, regime security forces in the city of Semirom in Isfahan Province, central Iran, arrested at least three relatives of those killed in the recent nationwide protests, according to local activists.
In Tehran, investors of the King Money institution held a rally demanding their stolen money be returned. And in the city of Dehloran in Ilam Province, western Iran, workers and employees of the local petrochemical site are on strike.
In other reports from the Iranian capital, Tehran University music students boycotted their classes today protesting the fact that their professors’ paychecks have been suspended for supporting the college students in the ongoing Iranian revolution.
January 1 – Tehran, #Iran
Investors of the King Money institution rallying and demanding their stolen money to be returned.#IranRevolution2023 #اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/PnJ67aDhjL— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 1, 2023
There are increasing reports of Iranians in different cities welcoming the third anniversary of the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the former head of the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force, on January 3, 2020, in Baghdad International Airport. These measures include torching and attacking posters, banners, and large billboards containing images of Soleimani.
Ardabil, northwest #Iran
Locals torched a large poster of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani.#IranRevolution2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/cI9vNQMPFU— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 2, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the international community to stand alongside the people of Iran in their struggle against the mullahs’ regime to establish freedom, democracy, and human rights.
“May governments and international institutions respond without delay to the desire of the people of Iran who are enduring suppression, torture, and execution,” the NCRI President-elect highlighted.
May governments and international institutions respond without delay to the desire of the people of Iran who are enduring suppression, torture, and execution.#IranRevolutionhttps://t.co/KNYt2gR1O6pic.twitter.com/V1RIZdujj0
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 1, 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.
