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Iran uprising marks 200th day

By Mahmoud Hakamian
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Latest update – 8:45 pm CET

Sparked by the horrific killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the Iranian regime’s so-called “morality police” while she was in their custody for supposedly “not covering her hair properly,” Iran’s nationwide uprising is Marking its 200th day on Monday with a variety of protests continuing across the country in different forms and methods. Protesters and ordinary people throughout Iran are constantly voicing their hatred of the ruling dictatorship and its apparatus of oppressive security forces, blaming them for their political, social, and economic miseries.

People throughout Iran continue to specifically hold the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive the 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 Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 675 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

Locals in the capital’s Shahrak-e Bagheri district began chanting anti-regime slogans on Monday night, including:
“Down with Khamenei!”

“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”

Reports from the city of Mahabad in northwest Iran indicate that protesters attacked the regime’s “Islamic Council” in this area on Sunday night, leading to at least one explosion at the site. Further details will be provided in renewed update reports from local activists.

On Monday morning, retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in Ahvaz and Shush, southwest Iran, held a gathering outside the local governor’s office and launched a march in the city streets, protesting high prices, inflation, low pensions, and other economic woes. They were chanting different slogans, including:
“High prices and inflation are killing the people!”
“Our rights will only be fulfilled if we take to the streets!”
“Incompetent Raisi, go back to the seminary!” referring regime President Ebrahim Raisi and his destructive economic policies, or lack thereof.
“Our enemy is right here! They lie in saying it’s America!”

Pensioners and retirees are among the worst-hit segments of Iran’s society. They depend on government stipends to make ends meet, but the regime has refused to increase their pensions in correspondence with growing inflation and the depreciation of the national currency.

The government has long provided many hollow promises of increasing pensions. It was also supposed to settle unpaid pensions remaining from previous years. So far, it has yet to deliver on both demands.

Interestingly, the regime’s own media reported that The Social Security Investment Company (SHASTA), the financial institution that is supposed to fund retirees, has seen a significant increase in its profits in the past years. However, these profits have yet to materialize in the lives of pensioners and retirees.

Teachers and educators in the city of Firouzeh in Razavi Khorasan Province, northeast Iran, held a gathering on Monday to and protesting poor economic conditions, their low and delayed paychecks, and demanding the release of their unjustly jailed colleagues. Teachers of the Mahmoud Kazemi School in the 2nd District of Hamadan in western Iran were also on strike today, protesting their delayed paychecks. Similar reports of protests by teachers received from the cities of Zarrindasht in Fars Province, Jam in Bushehr Province, and Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province.

Locals in the capital Tehran’s Shahrak-e Bagheri district were chanting anti-regime slogans on Sunday night, including “Down with Khamenei!”

Reports indicate an all-girls school in the city of Naqadeh in West Azerbaijan Province has been the target of a chemical gas attack on Monday and at least five students have been rushed to a hospital. The “22 Bahman Mohammadyar School” was the target of this latest attack and the students in need of urgent medical care were taken to Naqadeh’s Imam Hospital.

MEK supporters, being among the most active protesters against the mullahs’ regime, held a march on Sunday while chanted anti-regime slogans in the city of Kermanshah, western Iran. Their slogans included:
“Down with the oppressor, be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”
“The world should know that [Massoud] Rajavi is our leader!”
“The National Liberation Army of Iran is our final response!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we stand to the very end!”

The MEK has sent to international organizations and United Nations rapporteurs a list of names of its supporters arrested for taking part in Iran’s annual Fire Festival on March 14.

3,626 MEK supporters were arrested or disappeared from the beginning of the uprising on September 16, 2022, to March 20, 2023, and there is no information about their conditions and/or whereabouts. This is aside from the thousands of people arrested in different cities, towns, and villages across the country who were released prior to being identified or were able to flee.

The names and specifications of 3,626 MEK supporters who were arrested or have disappeared is at the disposal of the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and can be presented to any international court.

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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