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Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 135th day on Saturday following a day of protests by people in many cities across the country. Locals in various cities of Sistan & Baluchestan Province took to the streets yet again on Friday in their continued efforts against the mullahs’ regime. Their protests were paralleled by those seen in different cities across the country and night rallies in the numerous districts of the country’s capital Tehran.
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 637 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
On Saturday evening, locals in Tehran, including the Abazar and Ekbatan districts, began chanting anti-regime slogans specifically targeting Khamenei and the mullahs’ entire apparatus. The slogans included:
“Death to the Basij!”
“Death to the child-killing regime!”
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“Mullahs must get lost!”
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Death to the dictator!”
January 28 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the country's capital began chanting:
"Death to the Basij!"
"Death to the child-killing regime!"
"Death to Khamenei!"
"Death to the IRGC!"#IranRevolution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چە_شاە_باشه_چە_رهبرpic.twitter.com/6EvO3j5NAn— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 28, 2023
Locals in the city of Chabahar of Sistan & Baluchestan Province in southeast Iran gathered to hold a rally protesting severe gas shortages due to the regime’s corruption and incompetence. Tens of millions of people across the country are suffering as their homes and stores lack adequate gas for heating and cooking purposes. It is worth noting that Iran has the world’s second largest natural gas reserves.
January 28 – Chabahar, southeast #Iran
Locals protesting severe gas shortages and demanding answers to city officials whom they're describing as incompetent.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/KhMJYhoC3F— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 28, 2023
On Friday, people in Zahedan, Rask, Khash, and Galikesh in Golestan Province of northeast Iran took to the streets in anti-regime protests. They were chanting slogans against the mullahs’ regime and their security forces. Demonstrators in Zahedan were seen holding a large placard with a slogan rejecting any return to the Shah’s dictatorship or a monarchical rule.
The demonstrators in Zahedan, at times surrounded by the regime’s oppressive security forces, were chanting a variety of anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to Khamenei!”
“So many years of crimes! Death to the mullahs’ regime!”
“Death to the Basij!”
“We have nothing to eat!”
“Khamenei is a murderer!”
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Death to the Basij! Death to the IRGC!”
“Khamenei, have some shame! Let go of the country!”
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”
“Death to mokhbers [the regime’s spies]!”
At least three civilians were arrested by the regime’s plainclothes agents, according to local activists.
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed the people of Zahedan and the entire province of Sistan & Baluchestan Province for showing courage in continuing their protests against the mullahs’ regime.
“The courageous people of Zahedan and Rask took to the streets after their Friday prayer chanting, ‘Death to Khamenei,’ ‘Death to Basij’ and ‘Khamenei is a criminal’. Our Baluch compatriots displayed the resolve of all Iranians to overthrow the regime and achieve freedom,” the NCRI President-elect highlighted.
The courageous people of #Zahedan & Rask took to the streets after their Friday prayer chanting, “Death to Khamenei,” “Death to Basij” & “Khamenei is a criminal” Our Baluch compatriots displayed the resolve of all Iranians to overthrow the regime & achieve freedom#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/mrGH2AnCge
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 27, 2023
On Friday evening, locals in Tehran’s various districts, including Sadeghiyeh and Tehranpars, began chanting anti-regime slogans specifically targeting Khamenei and the mullahs’ entire apparatus. The slogans included:
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“We will not have a country as long as the mullahs are in power!”
January 27 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Sadeghiyeh district began chanting:
"Death to Khamenei!" #IranRevolution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چە_شاە_باشه_چە_رهبر pic.twitter.com/C3klnG3NnT— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 27, 2023
In the city of Izeh in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, people gathered on Friday to hold a ceremony in memory of Saeed Saeedi, a protester killed by the regime’s security forces in recent Iran revolution protests. Local authorities have taken extensive measure and deployed numerous security units to prevent any possible anti-regime rallies at the gathering.
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.
