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Iran’s people protest poisonous attacks as more schools are targeted

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Iran Protests - March 4, 2023
Parents and locals in different cities across Iran are protesting the ongoing poisonous gas attacks by regime operatives targeting all-girls schools.

Latest update – 1:45 pm CET

Many schools in different cities across Iran are reporting new poisonous gas attacks on Saturday carried out by regime operatives targeting all-girls schools. In parallel fashion, parents and locals are seen gathering outside the regime’s Education Department in various districts of Tehran and other cities protesting the attacks targeting their children and warning regime officials that their children are their red lines.

People throughout the country are specifically holding the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive 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 the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 664 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

There are numerous reports of the latest string of poisonous gas attacks targeting schoolgirls in different cities checkered across Iran:

  • A number of schoolgirls have fallen ill following a poisonous gas attack targeting the all-girls Esmat School in Malard, west of Tehran, according to local activists.
  • People are rallying outside Tehran’s District 5 Education Dept. protesting the recent poisonous gas attacks targeting all-girls schools. “Our enemy is right here! They lie in saying its America!” and “Incompetent officials, shame on you!” they’re chanting.
  • People are also gathering outside Tehran’s District 7 Education Dept. protesting the recent poisonous gas attacks targeting all-girls schools. “We don’t want incompetent officials!” they’re chanting.
  • The Seyed Jamaledin Assad Abadi school in Tehran’s Abdol Abad district is another target of the recent string of poisonous gas attacks against all-girls schools across the country.
  • Parents of schoolkids are gathering outside Ardabil’s Education Department in northwest Iran following the recent poisonous gas attacks that targeted at least seven all-girls schools and left more than 400 schoolgirls ill.
  • A number of students in an all-girls school in the city of Kavar in Fars Province, south-central Iran, have fallen ill following a poisonous gas attack targeting the facility.

  • People are rallying outside Tehran’s District 2 Education Dept. protesting the recent poisonous gas attacks targeting all-girls schools and demanding answers. “Official, come out!” they’re chanting.
  • Students of an all-girls school in Shahriar, west of Tehran, are being transferred to hospitals after smelling poisonous gas in their facility.
  • Tension was reportedly escalating outside Tehran’s Education departments in districts 8, 5, and 1. Clashes were being reported in District 8.
  • Locals and parents of schoolgirls rallied outside the Education Dept. in Tehran’s Shamiranat district to protest the recent poisonous gas attacks targeting schoolgirls. “Down with the child-killing regime!” they chanted.
  • Boys from two schools in the capital’s Tehransar district refused to attend their classes in support of girls who were targeted in recent gas attacks in the same district.

  • People in Tehran are protesting the recent gas attacks targeting schools across the country. “Basij and IRGC, you are our ISIS!” and “We don’t want a child-killing regime!” they’re chanting.
  • Regime operatives are launching new gas attacks. The all-girls Towhid School in Shahriar, west of Tehran, was targeted and students were transferred for medical care.
  • Parents in Isfahan, central Iran, are rallying outside the city’s Education Dept. protesting the recent poisonous gas attacks targeting schools. “Acid attacks and poisonings are both crimes!” / / “Secure schools is our right!” / “We don’t want incompetent officials!” they’re chanting.
  • Students of the all-girls Ahmad Fatehi School in the Eslamabad district of Karaj, west of Tehran, are being transferred to hospitals after their facility came under a poisonous gas attack.

  • Reports indicate another all-girls school in the city of Lahijan, northern Iran, was the target of a poisonous gas attack by regime operatives.
  • Locals and parents of schoolgirls rallied outside the Education Department in the city of Ardabil, northwest Iran, to protest the recent poisonous gas attacks targeting schools.
  • Regime authorities in Tehran are attacking parents worried about their children following recent poisonous gas attacks by regime operatives. Many were arrested today.

  • Parents were rallying outside Isfahan’s Education Department protesting recent poisonous gas attacks targeting schools. They were chanting: “Secure schools is our right!” “We don’t want incompetent officials!”
  • Reports indicate regime operatives launched yet another poisonous attack targeting a school in the town of Parand in Tehran Province.
  • Parents were rallying outside Tehran’s District 5 Education Dept. protesting the recent poisonous gas attacks targeting schools. “Incompetent officials, shame on you!” they were chanting.
  • Parents and locals rallying outside Tehran’s District 5 Education Dept. and protesting recent poisonous gas attacks targeting schools were attacked by regime authorities

  • Reports indicate three schools – Emamat, Al-Qadir, and Bahar – were the latest targets of regime operatives using poisonous gas against the students in the city of Parand in Tehran Province.
  • Three schools – Bagher al-Olum, Om Abiha, and Assadian – were the latest targets of poisonous gas attacks by regime operatives against these facilities in the city of Eslamshahr in Tehran Province.
  • Students of the all-girls Valiasr School in Zanjan, northwest Iran, were poisoned following a gas attack by regime operatives targeting their facility.
  • Regime plainclothes agents in Kermanshah, western Iran, attacked parents concerned about their children following the recent poisonous gas attacks targeting schools.
  • More than 30 students of the Shahed Nur-alzah School in Urmia, northwest Iran, suffered gas poisoning and transferred to medical centers.

  • The all-girls Masoumeh School in Tabriz, northwest Iran, was targeted by regime operatives using poisonous chemical gas, leaving many students ill.
  • An all-girls school in Hamadan, northwest Iran, was targeted by regime operatives using poisonous chemical gas, leaving many students ill. School officials didn’t allow parents into the school targeted in a gas attack. One hour prior to the attack a number of Basij members entered the school, forcing the kids inside the building.
  • Regime operatives in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, used poisonous gas to attack three all-girls schools and one all-boys school, leaving many students ill and in need of medical aid.
  • Regime operatives in the city of Kashan, south-central Iran, used poisonous gas in attacking the all-girls Ketabchi School. One of the mothers was shouting: “Why are you doing this to our kids?!”
  • Brave students in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, blocked a road and began protesting the poisoning of schoolkids by regime operatives across the country.

Protests by Iran’s Balochis were continuing on Friday as new rallies were reported in Zahedan. The brave locals in the capital of Sistan & Baluchestan Province were taking to the streets despite the regime’s oppressive crackdown measures and arrests. Many were seen carrying placards reading “Death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or the leader!” referring to the former and current dictator ruling Iran. Other slogans include “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the IRGC!”

Authorities dispatched many security units to the streets of Zahedan and were severely disrupting internet connections throughout the city in attempts aimed at preventing anti-regime rallies. There were also reports of regime security forces attacking protesters near the city’s Grand Makki Mosque, according to local activists.

Netblocks, the UK-based internet observatory organization tracking network disruptions and shutdowns across the globe, confirmed on Friday that the city of Zahedan witnessed a “significant disruption to internet connectivity”, adding that “the incident follows a pattern of network blackouts targeting continued Friday protests over the Zahedan massacre” of September 30, 2022, when over 100 Balochis were killed when the regime’s security opened fire on their protest rallies.

Protesters in the city of Galikesh, northeast Iran, also took to the streets on Friday chanting slogans in support of their local Baloch community leaders and against the mullahs’ regime.

Further reports from Zahedan indicate regime security forces attacked the locals and personnel of the city’s Grand Makki Mosque as they sought to forcefully enter and take control over the facility. At least one of the mosque personnel was severely beaten and arrested. Locals were able to resist the security forces and prevent their entrance into their sacred mosque.

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi praised the Balochis’ protests today and called on other cities across Iran to join their ranks against the mullahs’ regime.

“The rally today in Zahedan with roaring chants of ‘Death to Khamenei!’ and ‘Death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or the [mullahs’ supreme] leader!’ rejected both the current and former dictatorships and displayed Iranian people’s determination to achieve freedom. The people of Iran should rise in other cities in step with our Baluch compatriots and give the criminal Khamenei an unforgettable lesson,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.

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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