Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 199th day as night rallies against the mullahs’ regime is spreading once again across numerous districts of Tehran and other cities with people voicing their hatred of the ruling dictatorship through anti-regime slogans. In Sistan & Baluchestan Province, in different cases people were protesting the regime’s attacks against fuel porters, leaving them dead on the road in their vehicles.
People throughout the country 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.
MEK supporters marched and chanted anti-regime slogans in the city of Kermanshah, western Iran, on Sunday. 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!”
April 2 – Kermanshah, western #Iran
MEK supporters marched and chanted anti-regime slogans:
"Down with the oppressor, be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!"
"Massoud Rajavi is our leader!"
"We stand to the very end!"#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/dOTwpY504H— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 2, 2023
Members of MEK Resistance Units in Tehran, the capital of Iran, portrayed a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi in the capital’s Imam Ali Expressway at 10:45 pm of Friday night.
March 31 – Tehran, #Iran
Members of MEK Resistance Units portrayed a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect @Maryam_Rajavi in the capital’s Imam Ali Expressway at 10:45 pm of Friday night.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/7Y4yDpaqUF— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 2, 2023
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.
April 1 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
"Down with the child-killing regime!"
"We won't have a nation as long as the mullahs are in power!"
"Down with the dictator!"#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/O7zbJlszOI— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 1, 2023
Locals in Tehran’s Punak, Seyed Khandan, Sa’adat Abad, and Shahrak-e Bagheri districts began chanting anti-regime slogans on Saturday night, including:
“Down with the Islamic republic!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”
“Down with Khamenei, the murderer!”
“We won’t have a nation as long as the mullahs are in power!”
April 1 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Punak district began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
"Down with the Islamic republic!"
"Down with the dictator!"#IranRevoIution #No2ShahNo2Mullahs pic.twitter.com/WNlWzAbwrG— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 1, 2023
In reports from the major port city of Chabahar in Sistan & Baluchestan Province of southeast Iran, locals set fire to tires and blocked a major road for hours on Saturday in protest to the killing of a fuel porter by members of the regime’s oppressive state police.
For many of the impoverished people of Sistan & Baluchestan, transferring small amounts of fuel across the border and selling it to customers has become the only means of earning their keep and supporting their families. The reason they live this way is more than four decades of regime corruption and discrimination against the Baluch minority. The regime’s security forces attack and kill them regularly under the pretext of fighting smuggling. Meanwhile, the regime’s own security forces control a huge fuel-smuggling network that dwarfs the activities of the fuel porters of Sistan & Baluchestan Province.
April 1 – Chabahar, southeast #Iran
Locals set fire to tires and blocked a major road for hours in protest to the killing of a fuel porter by members of the regime's state police.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/gKYT3L2GxY— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 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.