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Iran’s nationwide protests continue on Tuesday as the unrest in numerous cities marks the movement’s 54th day. Kurdish cities witnessed relentless protests throughout the day on Monday along with college and high school students in various parts of the country boycotting their classes and/or taking to the streets in anti-regime protests.
Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 218 cities. Over 550 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 368 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Students of Tehran’s National (also known as Beheshti) University held a protest rally and boycotted their classes on Tuesday morning. Students of Tehran’s National (also known as Beheshti) University held a protest rally and boycotted their classes on Tuesday morning. Similar protests are reported in Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University and the University of Science and Culture, and the Ershad-Damavand University located in the city of Damavand in Tehran Province. Reports indicate all students and professors of Sanandaj University of Medical Sciences are continuing their strike, alongside protests by Najafabad University students in Isfahan Province and high school students in Ahvaz. More reports of high school students taking to the streets were seen from the city of Karaj, just west of the capital Tehran.
From Isfahan, reports indicate the workers and employees of the city’s famous Isfahan steel mill, once the largest such site in the Middle East, are on strike. Furthermore, workers of 37 Pars oil and gas platforms in different areas of southern Iran are on strike, according to reports.
November 8 – Tehran, #Iran
Students of Allameh Tabataba'i University protesting and emphasizing their unit in opposing the mullahs' regime.#IranRevolution#آزادی_آزادی_آزادی pic.twitter.com/NMyu1KkWjv— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 8, 2022
Locals in the city of Marivan gathered at the resting place of Nasrin Qaderi, a protester killed recently by the regime’s oppressive security forces, turned the ceremony into an anti-regime gathering and chanted slogans against the mullahs, including
“Death to Khamenei!” and “Damned be Khomeini!”
People in the city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan & Baluchestan Province in southeast Iran, are reporting a general strike as store-owners have closed their shops. This strike is in solidarity with the ongoing Iranian uprising and protesting the regime’s massacres in this city on September 30 and last Friday in the city of Khash. A similar strike was reported today in the city of Tabrzi, a major economic zone in northwest Iran.
November 8 – Zahedan, Sistan & Baluchestan Province, southeast #Iran
Locals are on strike and continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 54th day of the uprising.#IranRevolution#اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/BrddNcP4Ew— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 8, 2022
On Monday morning reports from the city of Marivan of Kurdistan Province, western Iran, indicated an ongoing general strike and continued confrontations between protesters and the regime’s security forces in various parts of the city. Local activists said authorities had dispatched a large number of different security units across Marivan to quell anti-regime protests.
The people of Bukan, another city in northwest Iran, are also reportedly in the streets in solidarity with the protesters of Marivan. Protesters are seen establishing roadblocks and taking control of their streets.
Other reports on Monday morning indicate that students at Sharif University in Tehran and the Islamic Azad University of Rasht in northern Iran were protesting and boycotting their classes. Students at Noshirvani University in Babol, also in northern Iran, and the Beheshti University of Tehran, among others, launched a gathering protesting the campus authorities insistence on gender segregation in the university cafeteria.
High school students have been taking to the streets on Monday in different cities, furthering the scope of today’s anti-regime protests. This includes schoolkids in the cities of Karaj, Shahriar, Sabzevar, and others chanting slogans against the mullahs’ regime.
People in the city of Siahkal of Gilan Province, northern Iran, held a ceremony in memory of Erfan Zamani, a protester killed recently by the mullahs’ security forces. Authorities had dispatched a large number of oppressive security forces to the city, who eventually opened fire on the ceremony participants. The participants stood their ground despite the crackdown and the heavy rainfall. Some reports indicate authorities had bussed in non-native security forces.
At night, protests spread to several cities, including Bukan, Sanandaj, Saqqez, and Mahabad. Protesters lit fires in the streets and chanted anti-regime slogans despite efforts by security forces to disperse them. In Marivan, protesters targeted a Basij base in response to the regime’s brutal crackdown on protests in recent weeks.
Iranian opposition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi highlighted the relentless nature of the ongoing protests and revolution in Iran. “The Iranian people’s powerful uprising is forging ahead. It is a revolution to establish freedom and democracy in Iran,” she said.
The Iranian people’s powerful uprising is forging ahead.
It is a revolution to establish freedom and democracy in Iran#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/FxLcZS5AKw— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) November 7, 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.
