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Different sectors of Iran’s society are continuing to take to the streets to voice their demands as the country’s economic status remains in a nosedive crisis. Many people can’t make ends meet and are voicing their dissent specifically at regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the paramilitary Basij, and plainclothes agents and their spies working among the locals of various cities and towns.
The Iranian capital Tehran is also witnessing people in different areas chanting anti-regime slogans at night a sign that popular protests remain a major concern for the ruling dictatorship.
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 637 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Members of the MEK Resistance Units network inside Iran launched a massive wave of attacks against the mullahs’ regime on Tuesday, January 24. This consisted of 17 different acts in cities checkered across the country. The targets of these attacks were:
- centers in Tehran and Eslamshahr used by the mullahs to promote the mullahs’ ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism
- IRGC paramilitary Basij bases in the cities of Qom, Karaj, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kerman, Hamedan, Qazvin, and Shush
- torching posters of Khamenei and regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini in the cities of Saravan, Langarud, and Sarpole Zahab
- torching posters of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in the cities of Kashmar, Karaj, and Tehran
The International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ) hosted an event to launch a new book, “Iran’s Democratic Revolution”, at the European Parliament today during which dignitaries weighed in on the current situation in Iran and the circumstances around the ongoing protests of the country’s revolution.
The experts, including ISJ President Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli, Amb. Robert Joseph, and MEP Hermann Tertsch emphasized that the Iranian regime’s days are numbered. The international community must realize that there is literally nothing to work with in Tehran, the dignitaries added, and that the Iranian opposition coalition NCRI, with the MEK as its cornerstone member, have the capacity to bring about regime change in Iran with the goal of transitioning power to the Iranian people to elect their leaders and representatives.
https://twitter.com/isjcommittee/status/1618237375804481544?s=20&t=SMo7rlG807FPlnhRjL-FVw
In the city of Karaj, located west of the capital Tehran, family members of death row inmates rallied outside Ghezel Hesar Prison protesting and demanding information about their loved ones. Reports indicate three inmates have recently been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions.
January 25 – Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
Family members of death row inmates rallied outside Ghezel Hesar Prison. Reports indicate three inmates were sent to solitary confinement for execution.#StopExecutionsInIran#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/D9HffG4Ien— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 25, 2023
On Wednesday evening, locals in Tehran began chanting anti-regime slogans specifically targeting Khamenei and the mullahs’ entire apparatus. The slogans included:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the child-killing regime!”
January 25 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 132nd night of the uprising.
They're chanting:
"Death to the dictator!"
"Death to Khamenei!"#IranRevolution2023#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/MejD72O8XN— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 25, 2023
Reports from Bandar Khomeyni of Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran indicate that on Wednesday contract and official employees of the local petrochemical site are on strike for the fourth consecutive day. There is word that the CEO of the Persian Gulf Holding Company, a firm associated with the regime’s IRGC, went to Bandar Khomeyni from Tehran on Monday to see into this matter. Despite his efforts, the workers are continuing their strike.
In Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran, personnel of the city’s Khomeyni Hospital held a protest gathering seeking their delayed paychecks and answers to their outstanding demands.
January 25 – Bandar Khomeyni, southwest #Iran
Contract and official employees of the local petrochemical site are on strike for the fourth consecutive day.#IranProtests2023 #اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/IgO77K9zua— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 25, 2023
On Tuesday evening, locals in Tehran’s Punak, Shahran, and Narmak districts, the Molla Sadra area, and different neighborhoods in the western parts of the capital began chanting anti-regime slogans specifically targeting Khamenei and the mullahs’ entire apparatus. The slogans included:
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”
“Death to the mullahs’ regime principle!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!”
“We don’t want a child-killing regime!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“Despite executions and prisons, we’re standing to the end!”
Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Punak district chanted:
"Death to the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!"
"Despite executions & prisons, we're standing to the end!"
"Death to Khamenei!"#IranRevolution2023 #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چە_شاە_باشه_چە_رهبرpic.twitter.com/P4pyGytcJl— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 25, 2023
Locals in the city of Marivan in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, held a gathering on Tuesday morning outside the governor’s office protesting the city/provincial officials’ incompetence in providing clean water for the people. Dozens of people in this city have fallen ill in the past few days, according to activists.
In Tabriz, a major industrial city in northwest Iran, retired factory workers held a rally outside the Labor Department of East Azerbaijan Province protesting their poor living conditions and demanding better pensions.
Also in Tabriz, expelled workers of the Shirin Asal Food Industrial Group gathered outside the Labor Department of East Azerbaijan Province demanding answers.
January 24 – Marivan, western #Iran
Locals have gathered outside the governor's office protesting the city/provincial officials' incompetence in providing clean water for the people. Dozens have fallen ill in the past few days, according to activists.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/nYn8KREiVx— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 24, 2023
A report from the city of Sardasht in West Azerbaijan Province of northwest Iran indicates IRGC units raided the home of Hayman Hamzeh, a local store owner killed in the recent protests by the regime’s security forces. During this attack, which took place at 5 am local time Tuesday morning, IRGC units opened fire and attacked the family, leaving three of Hayman’s brothers injured. Two suffered gunshot wounds while another was injured when attacked by IRGC members. All three are hospitalized.
January 24 – Sardasht, northwest #Iran
Footage of the three Hamzeh brothers in a local hospital after being shot at and injured by IRGC units earlier this morning.#BlacklistIRGC #IRGCterorrists pic.twitter.com/23mcIOZbsc— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 24, 2023
In Tehran, family members of death row inmates rallied on Tuesday outside the regime’s judiciary building protesting the death sentences and demanding answers from regime officials. This is the fourth such rally held recently as family members of various inmates have traveled from across the country to hold these gatherings on January 22, January 16, and January 14 in the country’s capital where children have been seen holding placards reading: “Don’t execute my dad!”
Also in the country’s capital, art students of Tehran University held a gathering protesting harsh sentences issued by the campus Regulations Committee against their fellow classmates for their roles in the recent Iran revolution protests.
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi has reiterated on the necessity for the West to put aside their appeasement policy vis-à-vis the Iranian regime and adopt a firm policy in the face of Tehran’s continued belligerence.
“The Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC must be designated as terrorists, their agents must be prosecuted and deported, and their European citizenships must be revoked,” the NCRI President-elect emphasized.
The Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC must be designated as terrorists, their agents must be prosecuted and deported, and their European citizenships must be revoked.#BlacklistIRGC pic.twitter.com/ZMntxUPNZc
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 24, 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.
