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The mullahs’ regime ruling Iran has executed Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini early this morning. The regime’s judiciary confirmed that the two, arrested for taking part in the revolution that continues across the country, were hanged.
The semi-official Mizan news agency, affiliated to the regime’s judiciary, reported that the two were executed for killing a member of the regime’s paramilitary Basij and blocking the Karaj-Qazvin expressway located west of the capital Tehran. Amnesty International has said the trials “bore no resemblance to a meaningful judicial proceeding.” Many reports indicate the two were tortured into coerced confessions.
The mullahs' regime ruling #Iran has executed Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini early this morning without due process.
The two were arrested during the recent #IranRevolution, falsely accused, and tortured into coerced confession.#StopExecutionsInIran pic.twitter.com/PztQh1Yzn3
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 7, 2023
Karami and Hosseini were also found guilty of “corruption on Earth,” a term and charge that has been levied against others by the mullahs’ so-called judiciary and carries the death penalty. To this day four men are known to have been executed by the mullahs’ regime for taking part in the demonstrations that began in September. All have faced rapid and closed-door trials.
Last month Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the United Nations, the UN Security Council, the European Union and Member States to take effective and practical measures against the religious fascism ruling Iran to stop the regime’s killing sprees, and use of torture and executions.
“If the mullahs think Iran’s revolution can be stopped through repression, torture, and execution, they are gravely mistaken. Our people’s response to suppression and killings, being Khamenei’s main tool for preserving his power, is Iran protests and the regime’s overthrow,” Mrs. Rajavi explained.
If the mullahs think #IranRevolution can be stopped through repression, torture, and execution, they are gravely mistaken. Our people's response to suppression and killings-Khamenei’s main tool for preserving power, is #Iranprotests & the regime’s overthrow pic.twitter.com/NxiZBfpT7V
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 7, 2023
Verbal remarks and condemnations are not enough, the NCRI President-elect emphasized, adding the mullahs’ embassies must be closed, its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and Intelligence Ministry (MOIS) be designated as terrorist organizations, and their agents expelled.
“Political relations and diplomatic engagement with a regime that relies on executions to preserve its rule are unjustifiable… Silence and inaction trample human rights values,” Mrs. Rajavi said.
I urge the @UN, EU, member states, & human rights defenders to strongly condemn the execution of the 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari and take effective and practical measures against religious fascism ruling Iran to #StopExecutionsInIran. Silence, inaction trample human rights values.
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) December 8, 2022
Regime authorities in the city of Bijar, Kurdistan Province, western Iran, have dispatched and stationed security units outside the home of Mohammad Mehdi Karami‘s parents. The authorities have been closing local shops and threatening the storeowners. At least three people have been abducted by the security units, according to reports from local activists.
January 7 – Bijar, western #Iran
Regime authorities placed security units outside the home of #MohammadMehdiKarami's parents. They're closing local shops and threatening the owners.
At least 3 people have been abducted by the security units, via reports.pic.twitter.com/qFOvrHUFjZ— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 7, 2023
In Tehran, locals in the Tehranpars district took to the streets on Saturday night in their latest anti-regime demonstration during they were seen chanting:
“For each person killed another thousand will rise!”
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
This rally was in response to today’s execution of Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini.
In another part of the capital, regime security units were dispatched a neighborhood where locals were chanting anti-regime slogans from their homes. The units began shooting at people’s windows.
January 7 – Tehran, #Iran
Tehranpars district
Protesters chanting: "For each person killed another thousand will rise!"
"Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!"#IranRevolution2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/vtvraIj6kt— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 7, 2023
Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 114th day on Saturday after the country’s brave Baluchis took to the streets yet again in further anti-regime protests against the mullahs’ rule. People in Zahedan bravely protested the rule of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the mullahs’ crackdown machine, including the IRGC, the paramilitary Basij units, State Security Forces (police), and plainclothes agents.
These protests are a strong response to the regime’s latest campaign of crackdown measures against the Baluchis with an increasing number of arrests in recent days, especially in the city of Zahedan, being the capital of Sistan & Baluchestan Province.
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 614 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
January 6 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Large crowd of protesters seen chanting various anti-regime slogans, including: "Death to the dictator!"
"Death to Khamenei!"#IranRevolution2023#زاهدان pic.twitter.com/YrgSCvZkTN— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 6, 2023
Locals in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan & Baluchestan Province, took to the streets on Friday chanting slogans against the mullahs, especially Khamenei as the regime’s dictator. Large crowds of people launched a demonstration and protest rallies against the ruling autocracy, chanting slogans in line with complete regime change by the people for a better future. Brave Baluch women once again joined the protesters’ ranks in their continued demonstrations. Their slogans included:
“Death to the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”
“I will kill those who killed my brother!”
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
The demonstrators in Zahedan also held placards reading slogans against the regime while voicing their visions of a future Iran:
“No to the crown [Shah]-No to the turban [mullahs]! The mullahs’ time is up!”
“Our silence is slavery! Resistance is life!”
“No to monarchy! No to [the mullahs’ rule]! Democracy and equality!”
January 6 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Protesters' placards read:
"Our silence is slavery! Resistance is life!"
"Death to the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!"
"No to monarchy! No to [mullahs' rule]! Democracy and equality!"#IranRevolution2023#زاهدان pic.twitter.com/bkPWihLaez— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 6, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed the Baluch for their brave protests today and once again emphasizing on their insistence to overthrow the mullahs’ regime and saying no to a monarchy rule.
“Despite the IRGC’s brutal attack and widespread arrests, our Baluch compatriots came to the streets of Zahedan today, showing their desire for the regime’s overthrow, democracy, and people’s sovereignty by chants of ‘No to monarchy! No to the mullahs’ supreme leader!’” the NCRI President-elect explained.
Despite IRGC brutal attack, widespread arrests, our Baluch compatriots came to the streets of #Zahedan today, showing their desire for the regime’s overthrow, democracy & people’s sovereignty by chants of “no to monarchy, no to the mullahs’ supreme leader.” #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/AAd3jlJJNo
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 6, 2023
On Friday night, locals in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran took to the streets vowing the protests continue in this restive city. They were seen chanting anti-regime slogans and taking control of their streets by establishing roadblocks.
Reports from Javanrud in Kermanshah Province, also in western Iran, indicate authorities continue to impose an unofficial martial law status to prevent any and all signs of anti-regime protests.
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.
