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Iran’s cities are witnessing protests by people from different walks of life as the nation continues to voice its utter hatred of the mullahs’ dictatorship, including the oppressive the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij 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 Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 647 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
People in Dehloran of Ilam Province, western Iran, sought to start anti-regime protests and demolish an IRGC paramilitary Basij statue at one of the city’s main square on Tuesday night, local activists say. Members of the regime security forces responded by opening fire and protesters returned fire, according to incoming reports. As a result of the clashes two members of the regime’s security forces and two protesters were injured, the activists added.
Despite the extremely cold winter conditions, on Tuesday night locals in Tehran’s Narmak district began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
February 14 – Dehloran, western #Iran
Local activists: protesters sought to start protesting & demolishing a Basij statue when security forces opened fire. Two regime agents & two protesters were injured.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/zo70o4Mc8h— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 14, 2023
Members of MEK Resistance Units projected a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi at 9:30 pm local time on Monday night in the capital’s Tehranpars district.
In Tehran, defrauded investors of the Ramak Khodro auto company held a rally and began protesting to demand their stolen investments returned.
In the city of Qom, parents of students in at least 12 all-girls schools are protesting their children falling ill one after another. There are allegations of intended food poisoning, and the parents are demanding answers.
February 13 – Tehran, #Iran
9:30 pm local time
Large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect @Maryam_Rajavi projected in the Tehranpars district.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/ykMZdNkfGA— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 14, 2023
Retirees and pensioners in the city of Qazvin of northwest Iran were rallying today, protesting low pensions, poor insurance plans, and seeking adjustments based on skyrocketing prices and increasing inflation. A similar gathering was held in Hamadan, and also Karaj where retirees and pensioners from Alborz Province were protesting for answers to their demands.
Contract workers involved with the city municipality in Tabriz, northwest Iran, are protesting recent plans by regime officials that will make it very difficult for them to make ends meet.
Workers of a copper mine in the city of Sirjan of Fars Province in south-central Iran were on strike on Tuesday for a fifth consecutive day, gathering outside the local governor’s office. They’re protesting paycheck delays that have continued for months and their inadequate insurance pensions that are depriving themselves and their families of the healthcare they need and deserve.
February 14 – Sirjan, south-central #Iran
Workers of a local copper mine, gathering outside the local governor's office, continued their strike for a 5th day, protesting paycheck delays & being denied adequate insurance pensions.#IranProtests2023#اعتصابpic.twitter.com/eWxZi2NDrd— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 14, 2023
On Monday, retirees and pensioners of the regime’s telecommunications industry in Tehran, Kermanshah, Ahvaz, Isfahan, Mashhad, and Ilam rallied again and were seen 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 their deteriorating living conditions, especially as the government refuses to adjust their pensions based on the inflation rate and fluctuations in the price of the rial, Iran’s national currency.
February 13 – Ilam, western #Iran
Retirees and pensioners of the regime's communications industry are protesting low pensions and poor economic conditions.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/qlelsrmC7G— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 13, 2023
Workers of the Bardsir Mashiz steel factory in Kerman, south-central Iran, protested outside the local governor’s office on Monday. This factory has been shut down after 28 years and no company official is providing any answers to these workers.
In Tehran, part-time workers and employees of the regime’s state oil company were holding a rally on Monday protesting and demanding their delayed bonuses. Many have been kept waiting for these bonuses since March 2022.
Local municipality workers in the city of Ilam, western Iran, held a gathering protesting their delayed paychecks. Some of these workers have not been paid since June 2022.
Disabled citizens were rallying in Tehran today, demanding pensions owed to them and they have been denied for months, some for years. The regime has been constantly deducting from their own state budget officially allocated to disabled individuals.
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.
