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The protests in Iran have evolved into a nationwide uprising movement and is entering its 75th day on Tuesday. Truck drivers in several cities are joining the anti-regime campaign with strikes that bear the potential of delivering a crippling blow to the mullahs’ regime. People in various cities have also continued their nightly protests and certain anti-regime measures of setting ablaze pro-regime billboards, posters, and monuments to voice their hatred of the mullahs’ rule.
At night protesters have more frequently been using Molotov cocktails in more frequent attacks targeting the mullahs’ regime, especially sites of the Basij, a paramilitary force affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC); centers used by the mullahs to promote the regime’s ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism; offices of local representatives of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei; and local offices of members of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) in various cities and towns.
Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 277 cities. Over 660 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 541 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
The UK-based Express website published a piece written by a member of the PMOI/MEK Resistance Units inside Iran focusing on the ongoing struggle against the mullahs and the regime’s conspiracies.
“For years the regime has tried to divide the people based on their ethnicities. But that strategy has failed. When the regime massacred our compatriots in Zahedan in destitute Sistan and Baluchestan Province, people in other cities took to the streets and chanted, ‘From Zahedan to Kurdistan to Khuzestan, I will sacrifice my life for Iran’. People are determined to liberate Iran and take back their homeland,” said Mina Lotfi.
“All we are asking is that our legitimate rights be recognized… Proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist entity; close Iranian embassies; guarantee our unhindered access to the internet. The West should take these actions, and we will overthrow the ayatollahs ourselves,” she explained.
On Tuesday morning initial reports indicate truck drivers of the refinery in Shiraz, south-central Iran, are on strike and continuing the nationwide movement that is gaining pace. Truck drivers in Sanandaj and Marivan in Kurdistan Province of western Iran, and ports in Bandar Abbas are also on strike. Reports indicate many drivers have been on strike for three weeks. Hundreds of trucks are parked at a city terminal and nearby roads, according to local activists. Similar strikes were also reported in Kermanshah Province and Dehaqan of Isfahan Province.
In Mahdasht, a city in Alborz Province located west of Tehran, reports indicate protesters set ablaze the local office of Khamenei’s representative.
November 29 – Mahdasht, Alborz Province, west of Tehran #Iran
Protesters set ablaze the office of the local representative of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/MxtAyefw1H— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 29, 2022
Nurses of Khomeini Hospital in the capital Tehran also held a protest gathering seeking answers from regime officials regarding their long-raised demands. Nurses in Isfahan’s Al-Zahra University Hospital also launched a protest rally today.
On Monday night protesters in the Pardis district of Kermanshah took to the streets to launch anti-regime protests, establishing roadblocks, and taking control of their streets.
In Hormozgan Province, southern Iran, workers of the Maad Koush Steel Company went on strike as another sector of the country’s industry joined the nationwide movement. Other reports from Sanandaj indicate schoolkids were seen setting up roadblocks by emptying dumpsters to set the trash on fire.
November 29 – Shiraz, south-central #Iran
Truck drivers of the local refinery are on strike and continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 75th day of the uprising.#IranRevolution2022#اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/3bTL1dgBKG— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 29, 2022
On Monday morning, students at Tehran University and the National University in Tehran held a gathering to protest the arrests of and suspensions against their classmates imposed by authorities to create a climate of fear among the students. Students and professors from other schools in the country’s capital, including Allameh Tabataba’i, Sharif, and the Hakim Sabzevari University in the city of Sabzevar, were seen boycotting their classes today in solidarity with the nationwide uprising. Tehran University of Arts students were seen chanting: “Fear us as we are all together!” and “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
High school students in a district of Karaj, a city west of Tehran, held a rally Monday morning and began chanting “Death to Khamenei!” A similar protest gathering was held in the capital’s Baghe-e-Feyz district where high schoolers were chanting anti-regime slogans. Furthermore, workers of the Isfahan steel mill are on strike and continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on this 74th day of the uprising.
Truck drivers in the Ravand Industrial Town of Kashan, a city in south-central Iran, are on strike Monday morning as they continue the nationwide protests against the regime on the 74th day of the uprising. Truck drivers in the Shapour district of Isfahan, Shahreza, Khorramabad, Yazd, Kermanshah, Asadabad of Hamadan Province, and Salafchegan in Qom Province are also on strike.
On Monday, Morattab Company employees went on strike again, protesting for the third day the regime officials’ refusal to pay their salaries for the past nine months.
As protests continued into Monday night, locals in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, took to the streets and began establishing control over their neighborhoods with roadblocks and fires. People in the districts of Chitgar and Narmak in Tehran also took to the streets and began chanting anti-regime slogans.
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi highlighted the Iranian people’s determination to overthrow the mullahs’ regime and the importance of the international community to hold the mullahs’ responsible for their crimes against humanity.
“The uprising that started in September attests to the deep roots of the Iranian people’s movement for freedom. It brings to light the magnificence of this movement and its definitive victory. The power of the protesters is far greater than the forces of repression,” she explained.
“The world should quickly react to the deaths of teenagers in Iran. They are either killed in the streets or in prisons or die after being released due to pressure and torture. The world should compel the regime to release the arrested teenagers immediately,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.
The uprising that started in September attests to the deep roots of the Iranian people’s movement for freedom. It brings to light the magnificence of this movement and its definitive victory. The power of the protesters is far greater than the forces of repression#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/ucKlsGOaB0
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) November 28, 2022
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.
