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Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 145th day on Tuesday with protesters voicing their hatred of the ruling mullahs’ regime by torching their symbols in a growing number of cities across the country. As the regime is preparing to claim legitimacy during the upcoming anniversary of Iran’s 1979 anti-monarchial revolution, brave protesters throughout the country are torching pro-regime propaganda billboards, posters, and banners.
This campaign goes parallel to protests by people from all walks of life in Iran against the regime’s corrupt dictatorship. This includes farmers in Isfahan, pensioners and retirees, and families of apprehended protesters and death row prisoners.
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.
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!”
February 7 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals chanting: "Death to the dictator!"#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/ljiDMSxUhC— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 7, 2023
On Tuesday, chicken farmers held a rally outside the regime’s Agricultural Ministry in Tehran protesting increasing expenses that has 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.
February 7 – Tehran, #Iran
Chicken farmers rallying outside the regime's Agricultural Ministry and protesting increasing expenses that has left them barely able to make ends meet.#IranPotests2023#اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/SS7QRLCSq4— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 7, 2023
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!”
February 7 – Bandar Abbas, southern #Iran
Protesters are torching pro-regime propaganda banners across the city.#IranRevoIution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/04szoZjfof— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 7, 2023
Early Monday morning protesters in Tehran and other cities across the country, including Mashhad, Kerman, Dezful, Zanjan, Semirom, and Karaj were seen torching pro-regime propaganda billboards and posters. This is further indication of the Iranian people’s hatred of the mullahs’ dictatorship as the regime gears up to mark the 44th anniversary of Iran’s 1979 anti-monarchial revolution, which the mullahs’ hijacked.
Similar measures were carried out on Monday night in the city of Babol in Mazandaran Province of northern Iran.
In Isfahan, farmers continued their protests on Monday over the drying of the local Zayandehrud River that has left their lands and crops devastated. This major river has been drying due to the regime’s corrupt policies that have allowed IRGC-related companies to divert the river’s waters to their own projects, some associated to the regime’s missile production sites. A growing number of farmers are heading to Tehran to hold their gatherings in the country’s capital. Regime security forces have reportedly attacked their ranks.
Also, on Monday morning investors in the state-owned Kerman Motor Company were rallying outside the regime’s Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade in the Iranian capital of Tehran. They are demanding answers and their stolen money returned.
February 6 – Isfahan, central #Iran
More farmers are heading to the capital Tehran to voice their demands to regime officials regarding the revitalization of Zayandehrud River to provide for their lands.#IranProtests2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/W98E0koQRr— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 6, 2023
On Monday, retirees and pensioners of the regime’s telecommunications industry in Khzuestan Province rallied in Ahvaz protesting their low pensions and poor economic conditions. This continues previous rallies held on the last two Mondays in the cities of Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Yazd, Rasht, Sanandaj, Kermanshah, Ahvaz, Ilam, Khorramabad, Shahrekord, and Urmia.
In the past few years, retirees across Iran have been protesting to their deteriorating living conditions, especially as the government refuses to adjust their pensions based on the inflation rate and fluctuations to the price of the rial, Iran’s national currency.
February 6 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
Retirees and pensioners of the regime's communications industry are protesting low pensions and poor economic conditions.#IranProtests2023#اعتراضات_سراسریpic.twitter.com/nZ13hHUtMY— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 6, 2023
In the city of Khash in Sistan & Baluchestan Province of southeast Iran women took to the streets protesting and demanding the release of their local religious leaders who have been arrested by the regime’s oppressive security forces. The protesting women also demanded an end to this method of crackdown used by the mullahs’ regime against their people in this highly oppressed part of Iran.
February 6 – Khash, southeast #Iran
Women held a gathering and protested the arrest of their local religious leaders by the regime's oppressive security forces. They're also demanding an end to this crackdown by the mullahs.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/4ODNIN4b8k— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 6, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi reiterated the Iranian people’s aspiration to bring about freedom and democracy in Iran, and how the Iranian Resistance has been seeking this objective in their decades of struggle against two dictatorships.
“The Iranian people want an elected government based on the separation of religion and state. The Iranian Resistance is proud to have elevated that cry to the formation of a democratic alternative and a movement which is able to fulfill the aspirations of the Iranian people,” said the NCRI President-elect.
The Iranian people want an elected government based on the separation of religion and state
The Iranian Resistance is proud to have elevated that cry to the formation of a democratic alternative and a movement which is able to fulfill the aspirations of the Iranian people#Iran pic.twitter.com/fDuCZp8aki— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 6, 2023
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.
