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People continue protesting the mullahs’ dictatorship in Iran

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Iran Protests - February 6, 2023
According to latest reports protesters in at least 282 cities throughout Iran’s 31 provinces have taken to the streets for 144 days now seeking to overthrow the mullahs’ regime. Over 750 have been killed by regime security forces and at least 30,000 arrested, via sources affiliated to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.

Latest update – 7:30 pm CET

People from different strata in Iran are taking to the streets in escalating protests against the regime’s corrupt rule. This includes farmers in Isfahan, steel workers in Ahvaz, and families of locals arrested in the city of Abdanan in Ilam Province who recently took to the streets in major anti-regime protests.

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.

In the Naziabad district of Tehran, the capital of Iran, members of MEK Resistance Units on Sunday evening projected a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi at 11 pm local time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On Sunday night locals in of Tehran’s Narmak and other districts began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we will stand to the end!”
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Death to the dictator!”

In the city of Abdanan in Ilam Province of western Iran people took to the streets on Sunday, especially the families of recently detained protesters, demanding the release of their loved ones. At least 17 locals have been arrested during nightly raids conducted by the regime security forces. A number of today’s protesters, even the elderly, were attacked by the regime’s security forces at the scene.

Students of Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran held a gathering in support of Farhad Meysami, a prisoner on hunger strike, and protesting prison/execution sentences issued by the regime’s so-called judiciary.

On Sunday morning, contract workers of green areas of East Azerbaijan Province rallied in Tabriz and protesting constant power outages due to the regime’s incompetence and corrupt policies.

In Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran, workers of the Kavian Steel Company went on strike on Sunday demanding official working contracts and better pay. Company officials have been neglecting their requests for at least 18 months now.

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi condemned the mullahs’ regime for leaving the people of Khoy without any aid after the January 28th earthquake that has left thousands of people in desperate conditions, especially with the freezing winter cold.

“The death of a mother and son in Khoy due to cold and the gas poisoning of over 100 earthquake-hit residents are heartbreaking. Shame on the mullahs’ predatory regime that has abandoned our fellow citizens and continues to steal public aid. The only solution is Iran revolution,” 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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