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Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 52nd day on Sunday, following a day of continuous protests by college students in numerous cities. These protests are relentless despite the fact that authorities are taking more measures to impose stricter campus rules and regulations and seeking to create a climate of fear in the country’s universities to prevent the students from launching more anti-regime protests.
Protests in Iran have to this day, expanded to at least 216 cities. Over 530 people have been killed, and more than 25,000 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 358 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Updates from the city of Marivan indicate authorities have dispatched a large number of security forces to quell the protests. Signs indicate these units even attacked a local school full of minors. Protesters are standing their ground by establishing roadblocks and taking control of their cities. Many activists are reporting that members of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and other security units are using AK-47 assault rifles and shotgun pellet rounds when opening fire and targeting protesters and bystanders.
November 6 – Marivan, western #Iran
Members of the regime's oppressive security forces are shooting directly at protesters and bystanders, according to local activists.#IranRevolution2022#آزادی_آزادی_آزادیpic.twitter.com/qfWz6GLEMq— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 6, 2022
Sunday morning saw protests in the city of Marivan of Kurdistan Province, western Iran, where locals buried Nasrin Ghaderi, a protester recently killed by the regime’s oppressive security forces. The burial ceremony continued into an anti-regime demonstration where locals began chanting “Death to Khamenei!” and taking control of their streets in a confrontation with the regime’s forces.
Further reports indicate protests spreading across the city, the regime’s security forces are opening fire on protesters and bystanders, people have attacked the regime’s local MP office, and merchants of the city bazaar are on strike in solidarity with the protesters in Marivan and across the country. Protesters are also storming the regime’s local municipality office, according to reports from activists.
November 6 – Marivan, #Iran
Locals continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 52nd day of the uprising, chanting "Death to Khamenei!"#IranRevolution2022#آزادی_آزادی_آزادی pic.twitter.com/q29CDO1vdS— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 6, 2022
Students of various universities are protesting, including Tehran University in the country’s capital, Razi University in Kermanshah, Urmia University, and Sheikh Bahaei University in Isfahan. High school students have been seen protesting in Karaj, Shahriar, Zahedan, and Bukan. Also in the country’s capital, employees of the regime’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance are on strike.
Reports from other cities across Iran indicate store owners throughout the city of Khash were on strike on Sunday following yesterday’s massacre of at least 20 locals by the regime’s security forces. Protests were also reported from various universities in the cities of Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, and Babol.
In Ahvaz, protester set fire to a local base of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij Force. The Basij are utterly loathed in Iran for they are the first deployed to quell popular protest rallies and have harassed the Iranian people in the streets for the past forty some years.
November 6 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
Locals set fire to a base of the regime's oppressive IRGC paramilitary Basij.#IranRevolution2022#آزادی_آزادی_آزادی pic.twitter.com/zUUiSQx7Cw— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 6, 2022
Protests spread to more cities throughout the day. At night, protests were reported in Marivan, Isfahan, Tehran, Kermanshah, Mashhad, and Bushehr. In Tehran, reports of protests and clashes came from several districts, including Sadeghiyeh, Nazi Abad, Tehranpars, and Sattarkhan.
Meanwhile, in Marivan, protesters continued their rallies late into the night, lighting fires in streets and chanting slogans against the regime and its leader.
November 6 – Marivan, western #Iran
Protesters chanting: "Death to the dictator!" referring to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.#IranRevolution2022#آزادی_آزادی_آزادی pic.twitter.com/mDOknYwasi— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 6, 2022
Initial reports on Saturday indicated authorities on various campuses were inspecting the students’ backpacks and purses and even insulting them prior to allowing them to enter the perimeters. This sparked a new wave of protests by college students across the country. In Tehran, such reports were received from the Sharif University of Technology and the Islamic Azad University-North Branch, among others. Students at a university in Mashhad were also reporting similar issues.
Students at many other universities across the country joined the protests and chanted anti-regime slogans. In Tehran, the country’s capital, students of Tehran, Kharazmi, Allameh Tabataba’i, Sharif, the Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch, Amir Kabir, the Islamic Azad University Tehran North Branch, Pardis North, and the Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch have been chanting slogans against the mullahs’ rule and oppression.
In Karaj, just west of Tehran, students of Kharazmi University were seen chanting, “Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
Students of Tehran University were specifically heard chanting:
“Death to the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”
In other reports, locals in the restive city of Saqqez, Mahsa Amini’s hometown, reported that merchants and store owners are on strike in solidarity with the nationwide general uprising. Similar reports were received from merchants of Tajrish Square in Tehran and the Hesarak district of Karaj, just west of the Iranian capital.
Night rallies on Saturday began with locals in the city of Neyshabur of northeast Iran taking to the streets and chanting “Death to the dictator!” in reference to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Similar reports were incoming from the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, western Iran, Karaj, Marivan, and Saqqez, where locals are also establishing roadblocks.
Iranian opposition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi praised the Iranian people’s brave protests and the ongoing anti-regime uprising. “From Tehran to Sanandaj, Kermanshah, Mashhad, Gilan, etc., brave university students are tirelessly determined to exhaust the enemy. These young men and women struggle for a democratic Iran and against repression and dictatorship with chants of ‘Death to Khamenei’,” she said.
From Tehran to Sanandaj, Kermanshah, Mashhad, Gilan, etc. brave university students, are tirelessly determined to exhaust the enemy. These young men and women struggle for a democratic #Iran and against repression & dictatorship with chants of “Death to Khamenei.”#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/q22QrdqD6Q
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) November 5, 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.
