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Iran sees new spark in anti-regime protests across the country

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Iran Protests - January 31, 2023
According to latest reports protesters in at least 282 cities throughout Iran’s 31 provinces have taken to the streets for 138 days now seeking to overthrow the mullahs’ regime. Over 750 have been killed by regime security forces and at least 30,000 arrested, via sources affiliated to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.

Latest update – 9:45 pm CET

Protesters in many cities across Iran and numerous areas of the capital Tehran took to the streets on Monday, igniting a new spark in the country’s ongoing anti-regime revolution. People were seen establishing roadblocks and taking control of their streets with fires, while also chanting anti-regime slogans specifically targeting regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the mullahs’ Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij, and their security forces apparatus.

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 637 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

On Tuesday evening, people in the cities Tehran, Karaj, and Javanrud have begun protesting and chanting anti-regime slogans in their districts. Tehran’s Darband, western neighborhoods, and other areas were also scenes of such protests. These slogans include:
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”
“Death to Khamenei, the murderer!”
“I will say this under torture: Give me freedom or give me death!”
“No to a monarchy! No to [the mullahs’ regime]! Death to Oppression!”
“Death to the Basij! Death to the IRGC!”

On Tuesday morning, investors of the Cryptoland online exchange held a rally outside the regime’s judiciary building in Tehran demanding the IRGC to return their stolen money returned.

The users of Cryptoland have been holding protests for two years, but authorities are refraining from acting on their demands. Cryptoland had around 289,000 users, who have lost hundreds of millions worth of their savings in the online marketplace.

In other reports on this day, schoolkids in the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah Province, western Iran, took to the streets and began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“From Zahedan to Izeh, this country is bleeding!”
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”

This restive city has witnessed massive protests during the past few months and the regime’s security forces launched an intense crackdown campaign in response that left dozens killed and injured.

In other protest reports, workers of a copper mine in Shahrebabak, Kerman Province, south-central Iran are on strike and holding a gathering outside of the local governor’s office, protesting their low paychecks and pensions.

Early Monday morning local time, members of MEK Resistance Units in the city of Kopon in Fars Province, south-central Iran, attacked a statue of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani and set it ablaze. This is further indication of the people’s utter hatred of Soleimani and the entirety of the mullahs’ regime.

On Monday evening, people in the city of Sanandaj took to the streets protesting the arrest of two local religious figures by the regime’s security forces. Protesters are establishing roadblocks to take control of their streets and demanding their release while chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to [regime agents]!”

Also on Monday evening, people in the capital Tehran and many other cities across the country took to the streets on the 137th night of the Iranian revolution. People in the cities of Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, Qods City located west of Tehran, Isfahan, Fuman, Bukan, Kelardasht, and Yazd were seen taking control of their areas and chanting anti-regime slogans. Different districts of Tehran, including Ekbatan, Narmak, Amaniyeh, Sattarkhan, Kuhsar, Tehransar, and Punak also reported such protests.
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“Death to the Basij!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
“Death to Khamenei, the murderer!”

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi reiterated the Iranian people’s determination to continue the ongoing uprising to bring about regime change to thus realize freedom and democracy in their country.

“The Iran uprising began on September 16 and quickly spread to 282 cities. The demands and direction of Iran protests are completely political. It is a massive defeat for the religious tyranny that the slogan ‘Down with Khamenei’ and the calls for the regime’s overthrow have become popular,” the NCRI President-elect explained.

“For years, the NCRI has emphasized the need for the expulsion of the mullahs’ regime from Arab countries. The mullahs’ rule and survival are based on two pillars: suppression of freedoms and repression inside Iran, and terrorism, murder, and belligerence in the Middle East and the world,” she adds.

On Monday morning, retirees and pensioners of the regime’s telecommunications industry cities checkered across the country took to the streets for a second consecutive Monday protesting their low pensions and poor economic conditions. These rallies were held in the cities of Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Yazd, Rasht, Sanandaj, Kermanshah, Ahvaz, Ilam, Khorramabad, Shahrekord, and Urmia.

In the past few years, retirees across Iran have been protesting to their deteriorating living conditions, especially as the government refuses to adjust their pensions based on the inflation rate and fluctuations to the price of the rial, Iran’s national currency.

On Monday morning, people who at least five years ago placed down payments with the Meftah Rahnavard Company to purchase vehicles held a protesting rally in Tehran as they have yet to receive any vehicles. This is the second day that these people, who have travelled from across the country for these rallies, hold their protest gatherings demanding their rights.

In other reports, nurses in Shiraz, a major city in south-central Iran, held a gathering protesting their delayed paychecks. And in Qeshm, located in southern Iran, municipality workers held a gathering protesting their low paychecks and poor living conditions.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked the city of Khoy in West Azerbaijan Province of northwest Iran on Saturday night, leaving many locals in the freezing cold winter without any aid from the local authorities. State media are reporting three dead while reports from other sources indicate at least seven people have died with 1,075 others injured. Further reports indicate 70 villages have witnessed 80 percent damages, and more than 3,000 homes have been severely impacted.

On Tuesday morning locals gathered once again outside the city governor’s office demanding aid, such as tents, blankets, heating appliances, and food. Nearly all of the shops across the city of Khoy have ran out of food. Locals say many officials and state press have only taken pictures of the damages and left, without providing any meaningful aid.

Local activists in the city are reporting that regime authorities have deployed a large number of security units, most of whom are stationed in the Khoy Red Crescent. Anyone who protests the status quo is attacked and beaten with batons, the report adds.

Regime officials were quick to dispatch anti-security units to the area to prevent possible anti-regime protests by the local who are in desperate need of assistance. On Sunday authorities even used water cannons of anti-riot trucks to disperse a crowd of earthquake victims.

On Monday people gathered outside the local governor’s office demanding answers and aid. There is a severe shortage of bread and food in stores across the city, and many still don’t have tents. There are several reports of regime security forces attacking those who gathered seeking aid for their families.

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.

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