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More people from all walks of life are taking to the streets in Iran as the country’s economy is in shambles, making it extremely difficult for ordinary Iranians to make ends meet and put food on the table for their families. In parallel fashion, concerns among regime officials are escalating over these dilemmas erupting into a new wave of massive protests engulfing the regime and rendering a security crisis for the mullahs’ entire apparatus.
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.
Locals in the capital Tehran are reporting yet another poisonous gas attack on Wednesday, this time targeting the all-girls Hajar School. One man says the stench smells like orange and is very heavy in the air.
Reports of such attacks have been escalating throughout the past four months, starting from the city of Qom and spreading across the country. This issue is raising suspicions that the mullahs’ regime, considering their misogynist policies, is sanctioning these attacks that have mostly targeted all-girls schools.
Latest reports indicate a number of schools in Tehran have been targeted in similar poisonous gas attacks and a number of students have been transferred to various hospitals. Even elementary schools are coming under such attacks that are reported from Tehran’s Narmak, Yarejani, and Tehransar districts. At least three schools in Narmak district and another three schools in the city’s Bahar Street were targeted in these strings of poisonous gas attacks.
At least one school in the city of Karaj, Isfahan, several in Ardabil, and another in Kermanshah are also reporting a poisonous gas attack following an explosion.
Reports indicate at least 26 all-girls high schools across Iran and some female universities, mostly in Tehran, were targeted in chemical gas attacks today. Report from Ardabil in northwest Iran show 400 girls were transferred to Fatemi’s Emergency from seven schools and conditions are described as a crisis.
March 1 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals are reporting another poisonous attack, this time targeting the all-girls Hajar School. Parents have rushed to the site and this man says the gas "smells like oranges."pic.twitter.com/Aiv023ADFg— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 1, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi condemned the poisonous gas attacks targeting schools in several cities across the country.
“Families and students in Tehran and Ardabil protested the poisoning of students, chanting ‘Death to Khamenei!’ ‘Death to the dictator!’ and ‘Death to the child-killing regime!” I urge all compatriots and brave youths to rise in support and solidarity with protesters. I urge the Human Rights Council and relevant UN rapporteurs to act urgently and hold Khamenei’s misogynist regime accountable for the criminal disaster of poisoning of schoolgirls. I reiterate the urgent need to send the international fact-finding mission to Iran,” she emphasized.
“The deliberate poisoning of schoolgirls in Qom, Tehran, Ardabil, Kermanshah, etc. continues, with Khamenei’s henchmen using it to take revenge on girls active during the uprising. It supplements the work of the Morality Police. I urge Iran’s courageous youth to protest. I call on advocates of human, children, and women’s rights to condemn the regime’s heinous crime. Urging UN special rapporteurs, UN Commission on the Status of Women to immediately question the clerical regime. Calling on the World Health Organization to send a delegation to deal with the tragedy,” the NCRI President-elect highlighted.
Families and students in Tehran and Ardabil protested the #poisoning of students, chanting "death to Khamenei," "death to the dictator," and "death to the child-killing regime." I urge all compatriots and brave youths to rise in support and solidarity with protesters. pic.twitter.com/r4tfgKcOoi
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) March 1, 2023
On Wednesday night locals in Tehran, including the Jannatabad, Tehranpars, and Sa’adatabad districts, and Mashhad, began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to the child-killing regime!”
“We don’t want a republic of execution!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”
In the city of Dehgolan in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, protesters torched a billboard of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Such measures are seen in many cities across the country as people resort to such actions to voice their hatred of the mullahs’ regime.
March 1 – Dehgolan, western #iran
Protesters torched a billboard of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/hMUKhrJSGs— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 1, 2023
On Tuesday night, locals in Tehran’s Narmak, Qolhak, Sadeghiyeh, and other districts began chanting anti-regime slogans, including “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the dictator!” referring to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Other slogans chanted by the locals included: “Death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!” and “Poverty—Corruption—High prices! We’re going to overthrow this regime!”
Students of Chamran University in Tehran took to the streets on Tuesday protesting a decision made by officials to hold classes online for the next three weeks and close the campus dormitory as a result. This will result in major troubles for many if not all the students and reports indicate tensions are raising on the campus of the country’s largest university.
February 28 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Narmak district were chanting:
"Death to Khamenei!"
"Death to the dictator!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/oz8xsBrCXD— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 28, 2023
Retirees and pensioners of the Social Security Organization held protest rallies in Shahrekord, southwest Iran, and other cities across the country on Tuesday protesting low wages and pensions, insurance issues, and poor living conditions. Similar rallies were held in the cities of Tabriz, Karaj, Arak, Rasht, Qazvin, Isfahan, Babol, Takestan, Sanandaj, Marivan, Ardabil, and Ilam.
Steelworkers in the city of Yazd rallied once again on Tuesday demanding better living and work conditions, and seeking a pay raise to enable them to make ends meet for their families.
Early Tuesday morning local time units of the regime’s IRGC attacked an area of makeshift homes near Chabahar, a major portal city in the Sistan & Baluchestan Province of southeast Iran. The IRGC units not only demolished the makeshift homes of the poor locals but also opened fire and wreaked havoc among the residents.
Students of Amir Kabir University of Technology in Tehran placed their trays on the ground on Tuesday protesting the low-quality food served at the campus. Such protest measures are escalating in various schools in Iran.
February 28 – Shahrekord, southwest #Iran
Retirees and pensioners of the Social Security Organization protesting and calling for higher wages and equality among all retirees.#IranProtests2023pic.twitter.com/nTC01GfnYZ— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 28, 2023
The conspiracy of poisonous gasses used against schools in Iran continued on Tuesday with two schools in the cities of Karaj, and Parand in Tehran Province, reporting a continuation of such attacks.
Regime operatives attacked a school in Karaj on Tuesday with poisonous gas and the students began chanting: “Death to Khamenei!” Tensions were also reported at an all-girls school in the town of Parand in Tehran Province. Reports indicate an object thrown inside the school exploded, leading to the spreading of a gas that left a number of students ill.
Investors in the Azvico auto company (shareholders include the IRGC), along with those who have placed down payments for vehicles, held a rally in Tehran on Tuesday seeking answers to their long-raised demands.
Landowners of the capital’s Punak district once again gathered in the capital on Tuesday demanding answers from authorities on why they’re still refused construction permits on their lands.
In Isfahan, central Iran, the apprehension of at least 60 workers of a local still mill who are on strike has been confirmed. There is no information about their conditions and/or whereabouts.
February 28 – Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
Regime operatives attacked a school with poisonous gas and the students began chanting: "Death to Khamenei!"#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/d8ramprUj1— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 28, 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.
