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Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 122nd day on Sunday as the country is gripping with freezing cold temperatures and the regime is too incompetent to provide even heating gas to tens of millions of people across the country. Iran has the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves and yet the Iranian people in cities throughout the country are seen waiting in lines for cooking/heating gas, and kerosene, and posting videos from their homes and stores showing the severe gas shortage. All the while, the regime’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, has been on a Middle East tour visiting the mullahs’ allies and pledging to provide for their energy needs.
The Iranian people, during this ongoing crisis, are voicing their hatred of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), and the paramilitary Basij forces, who are more busy escalating their crackdown against the nation and continuing to send prisoners to their gallows.
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 627 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
On Sunday morning, non-industrial workers in the port city of Bandar Mahshahr in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, launched a strike and are demanding answers from officials to their outstanding issues that have gone ignored for too long.
Workers of a petrochemical site of the OCDC company in Gachsaran of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in southwest Iran held a gathering today and went on strike, protesting for answers to their long-raised demands.
In Golestan Province, northeast Iran, hundreds of people have rallied outside the home of Molana Gergich, a senior figure of the local Baloch community, to prevent authorities from transferring following his summoning by the regime’s Special Clerics Court.
January 15 – Golestan Province, northeast #Iran
Hundreds of people rallied outside the home of Molana Gergich, a local Baloch community leader, to prevent his transfer to the regime's Special Clerics Court where he has been summoned.#IranRevolution2023 pic.twitter.com/D62BYdB3c9— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 15, 2023
At around 9 am local time on Saturday morning, approximately 500 members of ordinary inmates held in the regime’s prison rallied outside the mullahs’ so-called judiciary building protesting the conditions of their jailed loved ones. These family members had traveled to the Iranian capital from different and faraway cities. Some children were seen holding placards reading: “Don’t execute my father!”
Authorities dispatched security forces to disperse the crowd in this gathering based on the bogus pretext that the judiciary is closed today.
In Mallard, a town in Tehran Province, people set fire to the office of Khamenei’s local representative. More such attacks are reported with each passing day in cities, towns, and villages across the country, further signaling the Iranian people’s growing hatred of the mullahs’ regime.
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi condemned the regime’s execution of its own former deputy defense minister Alireza Akbari, a dual citizen of Iran and the United Kingdom.
“Ex-deputy defense minister Alireza Akbari’s abhorrent execution, in his own words among IRGC commanders in the Iran-Iraq war and of the Badr Brigade, showed the savagery of Khamenei and [regime President Ebrahim] Raisi toward even their closest operatives. The UK must shut down the regime’s embassy and cut off ties with it,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.
Ex-deputy defense minister #AlirezaAkbari abhorrent execution, in his own words among IRGC commanders in the #Iran-Iraq war & of Badr Brigade, showed the savagery of Khamenei & Raisi toward even their closest operatives. UK must shut down regime’s embassy & cut off ties with it.
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 14, 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.
