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As Iranians are preparing to welcome Nowruz and their new calendar year, many people in Tehran and different cities across the country paid tribute to protesters killed by the mullahs’ regime during the past six months of ongoing protests. These gatherings to honor the heroes of Iran’s revolution quickly evolved into scenes of anti-regime protests and participants were scene chanting slogans against the mullahs’ theocracy, calling for a revolution to overthrow their unjust rule, and rejecting a return to any form of dictatorship, most specifically that of the Shah’s pre-1979 monarchy.
People throughout the country are specifically holding 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 664 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
March 17 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Protesters are chanting: "Monarchy, [mullahs' regime], a hundred years of crimes!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/agbzuAMHpR— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 17, 2023
Protesters in the city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan & Baluchestan Province began demonstrating for the 24th Friday during the ongoing Iranian revolution. Locals took to the streets to launch anti-regime rallies, condemn the regime’s crimes, and demand their owed rights. Protesters in their demonstration today began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Monarchy and [mullahs’ regime], a hundred years of crimes!”
“I will kill those who killed my brother!”
“Basij and IRGC, you are our ISIS!”
“We don’t want a republic of executions!”
“Proud Iranians, support, support!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we will stand to the end!”
Locals in the capital’s Shahrak-e Bagheri district began chanting anti-regime slogans on Friday night.
March 17 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Locals are continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 183rd day of the uprising.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/LyoP7QvLa1— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 17, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi condemned the regime’s spree of executions on Friday morning, taking place just days prior to Nowruz, the Iranian calendar New Year.
“Khamenei did not refrain from killing even on the eve of the Persian New Year. This morning, seven prisoners, including one political prisoner, were executed in Urmia. Iran’s brave youth will not let these crimes go unanswered. The international community’s silence and inaction in the face of the regime’s torture and executions tramples on human rights values. On Thursday, March 16th, people in cities across Iran, including Tehran, Ahvaz, Sanandaj, Dehgolan, Bukan, Mahabad, Arak, Qazvin, Rasht, Gorgan, Karaj, Tabriz, and Saqqez, gathered at the tombs of protesters who were killed during the uprising. They reaffirmed their commitment to overthrowing the regime through chants such as ‘Bloodthirsty Khamenei, we will pull you down and bury you’ and “We will stand by the sacrifice of our comrades until the end,'” the NCRI President-elect explained.
The bloodthirsty Khamenei did not refrain from killing even on the eve of the Persian New Year. This morning, seven prisoners, including one political prisoner, were executed in Urmia. Iran’s brave youth will not let these crimes go unanswered. The international community’s… https://t.co/wFQKGpNjFM pic.twitter.com/Et8G4nvSHv
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) March 17, 2023
Locals in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, were paying their respects to protesters killed by the mullahs’ regime in the ongoing Iranian revolution. Thursday marked the last Thursday of the Iranian calendar year prior to Nowruz, the Iranian calendar new year. Similar gatherings were held in the cities of Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, Karaj, Ahvaz, Rasht, Mahabad, Dehgolan, Bukan, Kamyaran, Divandarreh, Shahriar, Saqqez, Kermanshah, Divandarreh, Isfahan, Shahin Shahr, Arak, Izeh, and others.
March 16 – Kamyaran, western #Iran
Locals paying respects to protesters killed by the mullahs' regime in the ongoing #IranRevoIution.
"Monarchy, [mullahs' regime], two faces of dictatorship!" the crowd chanted.pic.twitter.com/eP6Wx5rcRk— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 16, 2023
On Thursday night locals in the capital’s Elahieh district of the country’s capital Tehran began chanting anti-regime slogans.
In the city of Bukan in northwest Iran regime authorities ordered a large number of security units to the city streets on Thursday morning and established numerous checkpoints to inspect the locals vehicles. These measures follow last night’s protests across the city.
March 16 – Tehran, #Iran
Regime authorities have deployed many security units into the streets and launched numerous checkpoints following last night's anti-regime protests.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/ZoJ6qAZNEV— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 16, 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.
