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Iran’s people continue voicing escalating dissent, demanding regime change

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Cities in different parts of Iran are reporting anti-regime protests by people from different parts of the Iranian strata. This includes nightly rallies reported in the capital, protests over economic grievances, and the regime’s failure to provide for the people’s basic needs due to rampant corruption and incompetence among state officials.

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 the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 637 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked the city of Khoy in West Azerbaijan Province of northwest Iran on Saturday night, leaving many locals in the freezing cold winter without any aid from the local authorities. State media are reporting three dead while reports from other sources indicate at least seven people have died with 1,075 others injured. Further reports indicate 70 villages have witnessed 80 percent damages.

Regime officials were quick to dispatch anti-security units to the area to prevent possible anti-regime protests by the local who are in desperate need of assistance. On Sunday authorities even used water cannons of anti-riot trucks to disperse a crowd of earthquake victims.

There are also long lines of people seeking gasoline while the regime, with the world’s fourth largest crude oil reserves, fails to provide the Iranian people’s basic necessities.

On Sunday evening, locals in Tehran, including the Negin Gharb Residential Complex, began chanting anti-regime slogans specifically targeting Khamenei and the mullahs’ entire apparatus. The slogans included:
“Death to the republic of executions!”

In Tehran, family members of death row inmates rallied on Sunday outside the regime’s judiciary building protesting the death sentences and demanding answers from regime officials. This is the fifth such rally held recently as family members of various inmates have traveled from across the country to hold these gatherings on January 25, January 22January 16, and January 14 in the country’s capital where children have been seen holding placards reading: “Don’t execute my dad!”

On Sunday morning, people who five years ago placed down payments with the Meftah Rahnavard Company to purchase vehicles held a protesting rally in Tehran as they have yet to receive any vehicles.

On Saturday evening, locals in Tehran, including the Abazar and Ekbatan districts, began chanting anti-regime slogans specifically targeting Khamenei and the mullahs’ entire apparatus. The slogans included:
“Death to the Basij!”
“Death to the child-killing regime!”
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“Mullahs must get lost!”
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Death to the dictator!”

Locals in the city of Chabahar of Sistan & Baluchestan Province in southeast Iran gathered to hold a rally protesting severe gas shortages due to the regime’s corruption and incompetence. Tens of millions of people across the country are suffering as their homes and stores lack adequate gas for heating and cooking purposes. It is worth noting that Iran has the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves.

On Friday Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi sent a message to the Arab-Islamic Conference in Brussels, “Solidarity with the Iranian people’s democratic revolution”, emphasizing that overthrowing the mullahs’ regime is a prerequisite to liberating Iran and the Middle East of the scourge of religious extremism, terrorism, and warmongering.

“The people of Iran have refuted both the past and present regimes thousands of times by their chants of ‘Down with the oppressor, be it the shah or the mullahs’ supreme leader!’ and similar slogans. As such, the Iranian people have rejected all forms of dictatorship,” she explained.

“We called on Middle East countries to establish a common front against the clerical regime, with the Iranian people and resistance as decisive components. Such a front is a prerequisite to the swift liberation of Iran and the region from religious extremism, terrorism, and warmongering. The region and the world will not achieve peace and tranquility until they target the epicenter of fundamentalism, i.e., the mullahs’ regime. The alternative, the NCRI is fighting for a free Iran that brings friendship, fraternity, and peace to the Middle East and the world,” the NCRI President-elect reiterated.

“The IRGC is the principal agent of repression. Iranian protesters see its terrorist designation as a measure of standing by the people of Iran. Therefore, the people of Iran strongly support the resolution adopted by the European Parliament,” Mrs. Rajavi added.

“Regime change is the responsibility of the Iranian people. However, they expect western governments to recognize their struggle to overthrow the regime and the struggle of Iran’s courageous youths against the terrorist IRGC and their right to defend themselves,” she concluded.

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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