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Iran’s people are voicing their rage by burning the regime’s symbols

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Iran Protests - February 8, 2023
According to latest reports protesters in at least 282 cities throughout Iran’s 31 provinces have taken to the streets for 146 days now seeking to overthrow the mullahs’ regime. Over 750 have been killed by regime security forces and at least 30,000 arrested, via sources affiliated to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.

Latest update – 10:15 pm CET

Protests in Iran are continuing as more people across the country are burning the mullahs’ propaganda billboards, posters, and banners. These symbols have been installed by the regime’s propaganda apparatus prior to the upcoming anniversary of Iran’s 1979 anti-monarchial revolution that was hijacked by the mullahs.

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.

Distinguished members of the U.S. House of Representatives held a press conference on Wednesday introducing Resolution 100 that voices support for the Iranian people’s desire to establish a democratic, secular, and nonnuclear Republic of Iran. The resolution was submitted by 165 members of Congress from both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi joined the Congressional conference and delivered her remarks via an online connection. “I would like to reiterate that the Iranian people are looking towards the future: a democratic Republic, based on separation of religion and state, with gender equality,” the NCRI President-elect said.

“Thank you all for your bipartisan initiative announced today in support of the Iranian people and Resistance, protecting the Iranian people’s right to determine their own future while preventing the Iranian regime access to means and resources to suppress our people,” she added.

“We mark the anniversary of the 1979 anti-dictatorial revolution when a unified nation deposed the Shah to achieve freedom and democracy. Now, after 40 years of repression and resistance, Iran as a nation is ready once more to overthrow the ruling religious dictatorship,” Madam Rajavi concluded.

Madam Rajavi had also the day before delivered an online speech to a conference at the French National Assembly alongside French dignitaries and political figures focusing on the alternative for the Iranian people as they eye their future.

“The uprising started almost five months ago. The Iranian people, especially women, have moved the world with their courage and bravery in the face of injustice, inequality, and discrimination. This is the courage of a generation standing against death, arrests, and torture. 120,000 martyrs, including thousands of women and 30,000 political prisoners executed in the 1988 massacre, show that Iranians have never given in to the religious dictatorship. Generation after generation, the flame of Resistance continues to burn in Iran,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.

“Iranians will not allow their revolution to be hijacked by so-called oppositions run by the regime. The regime’s overthrow, and establishing a true republic with separation of religion and state are the NCRI’s core principles proposed to all freedom-loving Iranians and forces,” Mrs. Rajavi added.

“If France wants to stand by Iranian women and youth in their struggle, it must recognize the Iranian people’s right to overthrow the mullahs’ regime and must hold the regime’s leaders accountable,” she concluded.

On Monday night, members of the MEK Resistance Units in the city of Malard, located west of Tehran, projected a large image of Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi in the city’s Al-Ghadir Boulevard, along with the slogan: “We can and must free Iran”

In Mashhad, the country’s second largest city, a brave protester began writing anti-regime slogans on a large billboard. The slogans included: “Death to Khamenei”

On Wednesday night locals in Tehran’s Amirabad and South Jannatabad districts, and the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“We will fight and take back Iran!”

Protesters in other cities, including Karaj and Kermanshah, are continuing the nationwide campaign of torching pro-regime propaganda billboards, posters, and banners as they voice their hatred of the mullahs’ dictatorship.

Farmers from Isfahan Province arrived in Tehran and began holding a protest rally on Wednesday morning to raise their demands and protest the drying of their local Zayandehrud River. This has led to the devastation of their farmlands and crops, and left their livelihood.

Cotton field workers in the city of Moghan in Razavi Khorasan Province, northeast Iran, rallied outside the local governor’s office after city officials have refused to respond to their demands.

On Tuesday night locals in Tehran’s Marzdaran district and other areas, and the city of Shiraz, began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“So many years of crimes! Death to the mullahs’ regime!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”

On Wednesday, investors of the Cryptoland online exchange held a rally outside a regime judiciary building in Tehran demanding the IRGC to return their stolen money returned.

The users of Cryptoland have been holding protests for two years, but authorities are refraining from acting on their demands. Cryptoland had around 289,000 users, who have lost hundreds of millions worth of their savings in the online marketplace.

On Tuesday, chicken farmers held a rally outside the regime’s Agricultural Ministry in Tehran protesting increasing expenses that have left them barely able to make ends meet. The mullahs’ regime has been implementing corrupt policies for many years now that have destroyed the livelihood and industry of Iran’s chicken farmers. These policies include the construction of large chicken farms owned by state-backed merchants, and importing soy needed for the chicken farm industry at discount prices while selling them to chicken farmers at double the price.

In Tehran, Kian Tire Manufacturing Company workers held a rally at the factory protesting the company officials’ refusal to address their demands.
“Enough with promises! We have nothing to eat!” they’re chanting.

Early Tuesday morning protesters in Bandar Abbas were seen torching pro-regime propaganda posters. There are more such reports from the cities of Bushehr in the south, Mashhad in the northeast, Divandarreh in the western parts of the country. This goes parallel to reports late Monday night from various districts of Tehran where locals were chanting anti-regime slogans.

In Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran, students of a university where the regime’s government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi was visiting on Monday  began chanting slogans and specifically shouting: “Spokesman, get lost!”

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.

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