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People in Iran are marking the 40th day of the executions of Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini, two protesters arrested for their roles in the ongoing Iran revolution rallies against the regime. Throughout the country there are calls for protests on Thursday for people to come to the streets and continue voicing their hatred of the mullahs’ dictatorship.
People throughout the country are holding the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei directly 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 647 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Protesters are taking to the streets in various parts of Tehran and other cities, including Mashhad, Sanandaj, Shiraz, Karaj, Qazvin, Arak, Izeh, Ahvaz, Khorramabad, Rasht, Yazd, Javanrud, and Qorveh. The people were responding to calls for protests marking the 40th day of the regime’s executions of Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini.
February 16 – Sanandaj, western #Iran
Protesters are chanting: "Death to the dictator!"#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/thvMQxEZTS— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 16, 2023
Protesters are starting fires and establishing roadblocks to prevent the regime from dispatching its forces. There are also reports of regime security forces attacking tonight’s demonstrators, especially those in the capital, Tehran.
Protesters in city streets across the country are chanting different slogans, including:
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
“Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!”
“My martyred brother, I will avenge your blood!”
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
“We don’t want an Islamic state!”
“We will fight and take back Iran!”
“We swear on our compatriots’ blood that we will stand to the end!”
February 16 – Tehran, #Iran
Tehranpars district
Locals are chanting: "This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!"#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/NKI5BepwK8— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 16, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed the people of Iran for their anti-regime protests tonight.
“I salute the heroic people of Iran who have taken to the streets with ever-greater determination for the regime’s overthrow, chanting “Freedom” and “Death to Khamenei.” Iran’s protests are ongoing in dozens of districts in Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, Sanandaj, and Mashhad,” the NCRI President-elect highlighted.
I salute the heroic people of Iran who have taken to the streets with ever-greater determination for the regime’s overthrow, chanting “freedom” and “death to Khamenei.” #Iranprotests ongoing in dozens of districts in #Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, Sanandaj, and Mashhad.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/lpamMbQYd4
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 16, 2023
In various parts of Tehran and the town of Eshtehard in Alborz Province, just west of the Iranian capital, regime authorities were busy dispatching security units backed by anti-riot guards in anticipation of anti-regime protests later on Thursday. Authorities have also been using schools in various parts of Tehran, including Sa’adatabad, to station their security forces prior to today’s anti-regime protests. Similar measures are being implemented in the country’s northwest as activists are reporting that authorities are dispatching security forces from Urmia to Mahabad.
Turmoil was also reported from Tehran’s Molavi market (bazaar) following the continuous nosedive of the national currency, the rial.
February 16 – Tehran, #Iran
Regime authorities are dispatching security units to various parts of the capital in anticipation of anti-regime protests later today.#IranRevolution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/yzEjMHZs8W— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 16, 2023
Locals in the Mohammad Shahr district of Karaj, a major city located west of the capital Tehran, launched an attack targeting one of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij sites on Wednesday night. The Basij are loathed across the country for their direct roles in the ongoing crackdown against the Iranian people, especially during the Iran revolution protests.
Locals took to the streets of Mashhad in northeast Iran on Wednesday night and setup roadblocks with fires while chanting:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
February 15 – Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the city's Mohammad Shahr district launched an attack targeting one of the regime's IRGC paramilitary Basij sites.#IranRevoIution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/P6qJksHKme— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 15, 2023
Workers of the Iran Shipbuilding & Offshore Industries Complex in Bandar Abbas, a major port city in southern Iran, were holding a gathering on Wednesday and protesting mismanagement, delayed paychecks, and other problems regarding their working and pay conditions.
Retirees and pensioners in the city of Tehran were rallying on Wednesday, protesting low pensions, poor insurance plans, and seeking adjustments based on skyrocketing prices and increasing inflation.
People in the city of Eslamabad-e-Gharb of Kermanshah Province were holding a gathering on Wednesday and protesting the local officials’ hollow promises on providing real estate.
February 15 – Bandar Abbas, southern #Iran
Workers of the Iran Shipbuilding & Offshore Industries Complex are protesting mismanagement, delayed paychecks, and other problems regarding their working conditions.#IranProtests2023 #اعتراضات_سراسرى pic.twitter.com/748aPtz1A9— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 15, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi reiterated the Iranian people’s growing will to continue the Iran revolution protests against the mullahs’ regime to establish freedom, democracy, and human rights in Iran.
“For the past four decades, a phenomenal and hopeful battle has been waged for the most basic rights of the Iranian people,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.
For the past four decades, a phenomenal and hopeful battle has been waged for the most basic rights of the Iranian people.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/6UbcQRxa5R
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 15, 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.
