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Protests across Iran are entering their 71st day on Friday as people in many cities across the country have been voicing support for and solidarity with their brave Kurdish compatriots in the cities of Javanrud, Mahabad, Piranshahr, and others. The regime’s horrific crackdown against the country’s Kurdish areas in the provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, and Kermanshah has failed to silence the Iranian people in their relentless pursuit of the ongoing revolution.
Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 250 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 528 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Friday’s protests began with demonstrations in the cities of Sistan and Baluchestan province. In Zahedan, Khash, Iranshahr, and Chabahar, citizens took to the streets after Friday prayers and protested the regime’s brutal crackdown on nationwide nationwide demonstrations. Protesters chanted slogans against regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), and the Basij. They also voiced their solidarity with the people of Iran’s Kurdish cities, who have been subjected to a brutal crackdown by the IRGC in recent days. Protesters in Zahedan were shouting, “Kurds and Baluch are brothers, they both hate [Khamenei]!”
November 25 – Zahedan, #Iran
Protesters chanting: "Kurds and Baluch are brothers, they hate [Khamenei]!"#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/JpiFvzKem5— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 25, 2022
This solidarity between the various ethnicities across Iran is taking place despite tremendous efforts by the regime to drive a wedge through ethic divides and prevent Iran’s people from unifying against tyranny.
Fearing protest rallies by the people of Sistan and Baluchestan, the regime had dispatched contingents of security forces to different last night and early today. The regime proved once again that it does not tolerate peaceful protests. In Zahedan, security forces opened fire on protesters and wounded several people. Reports of casualties have yet to come but videos show that several people have suffered bullet wounds and are rushed to hospitals.
November 25 – Zahedan, Southeast #Iran
Civilians wounded after security forces opened fire on peaceful protests.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/nRXQyqCjCJ— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 25, 2022
Throughout the day, protests spread to other cities of Sistan and Baluchestan, including Nukabad, where the locals rallied and chanted slogans against the regime and in support for unity across Iran. “Death to the dictator!” and “Iranians, unity!”
Meanwhile, the situation continues to be very tense in Zahedan. Protests continued despite the brutal repression by the regime’s security forces. Videos show security forces directly opening fire on protesters. Meanwhile, protesters are taking shelter in alleys and continue their rallies while resisting with bare hands and rocks. Local reports indicate that dozens have been injured and killed by security forces during today’s protests.
November 25 – Zaheda, southeast #Iran
Regime security forces were seen shooting directly at protesters.#IranRevolution2022#زاهدان pic.twitter.com/HPiNEvAnVm— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 25, 2022
Other reports show protest rallies in Tehran’s Naziabad district. Naziabad has been one of the most active districts of Tehran in the past weeks. During today’s protests, the locals rallied in the streets despite the heavy presence of security forces and chanted anti-regime slogans, including “Death to the dictator!” and “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
November 25 – Tehran, #Iran
Naziabad district
Protesters chanting: "Death to the dictator!"
"Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!"#IranRevolution2022#آزادی_آزادی_آزادی pic.twitter.com/KT0jyfcc5o— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 25, 2022
Protests also took place in Karaj, Talesh, Mashhad, and Isfahan. In Zahedan, people continued their resistance against the regime’s security forces. In Karaj, people chanted slogans against the regime and in support of the cities that have been under fire by the regime. In response to the regime’s brutal repression, protesters set fire to a Basij base. Basij is the main paramilitary force used to suppress protests.
November 25 – Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
Protesters attacked an IRGC paramilitary Basij Force base in the city's Fardis district.#IranRevolution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/sCQsrOnpdf— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 25, 2022
On Thursday, protests began with strikes in dozens of cities, including Kermanshah, Qorveh, Mashhad, Urmia, Mahabad, Piranshahr, Kamyaran, Javanrud, Saqqez, Naqadeh, Divandarreh, Bukan, Sanandaj, Baneh, Sarpol-e Zahab, Oshnavieh, Sardasht, Dehgolan, and Salas-e Babajani.
In Tehran, the families of arrested protesters rallied in front of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and demanded authorities clarify the whereabouts and conditions of their loved ones.
Nightly protest rallies were held in several cities, including Tehran, Kermanshah, Ilam, Urmia, Karaj, Isfahan, Zarrinshahr, Hamedan, and Sanandaj. In many cities, citizens chanted slogans in support of the people of Iran’s Kurdish cities, who have suffered deeply at the hands of the regime’s security forces in recent days. Despite a brutal crackdown in Javanrud, Mahabad, and several other Kurdish cities, the people of the region are resisting, and the rest of the country has risen in their support.
The United Nations Human Rights Council held its first-ever special session on Thursday focusing on the mullahs’ regime and atrocities committed by its forces against the Iranian people during the recent protests. The Council has voted 25-6 to condemn human rights violations by the mullahs’ regime in Iran and launch a first-ever investigative mission into the crimes committed by this regime and its forces against the Iranian people.
The international community should back this initiative regarding the regime’s crimes, send a delegation to visit Iran’s prisons and meet with political prisoners without the presence of regime officials and authorities, and thus take action to hold responsible the regime’s senior officials and all those involved in these crimes.
The UN Human Rights Council has voted 25-6 to condemn #HumanRightsViolations by the mullahs' regime in #Iran and launch a first-ever investigative mission into the crimes committed by this regime and its forces against the Iranian people. pic.twitter.com/I8oFI4Qmka
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 24, 2022
At the same time, in a cross-party initiative, British lawmakers joined a conference on Iran’s ongoing nationwide uprising and supported the Iranian people and their organized Resistance movement in their quest for liberty and democracy. The event featured speeches from Mrs. Marayam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and prominent British lawmakers and distinguished politicians who expressed their support of the Iranian people’s democratic revolution while renouncing any form of dictatorship in the future of Iran.
Iran’s Nationwide Protests-No to misogynist regime, Yes to Democratic Republic #IranRevolutionhttps://t.co/CSGgDdEcd6
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) November 24, 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.
