Numerous cities throughout Iran were scenes of people continuing the anti-regime uprising on Thursday marking the 21st day of protests against the mullahs’ dictatorship. Iran’s protests have up to now expanded to 172 cities in all 31 provinces across the country. According to reports gathered by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the regime has so far killed 400 civilians and arrested 20,000 others.
Activists in the cities of Tehran, Rasht, Arak, Khorramabad, Eslamshahr, Qods (Ghal-e Hassan Khan) Parand, Qazvin, and others reported ongoing protests. Locals taking to the streets are seen chanting “Death to Khamenei” and “Death to the dictator!” referring directly to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Other slogans included “I will kill those who killed my sister!” and “Imprisoned college students must be released!”
Authorities have been expanding their intense crackdown measures against any sign of protest gatherings, parallel to widespread internet disruption measures in many cities and provinces.
In Tehran, people in various roads and districts, including Valiasr, Tehranpars, and Bagheri Highway drivers showed their support of the ongoing protests by sounding their horns. Activists reported the regime’s security forces and plainclothes agents were seen frantically attempting to prevent people from any measures resembling anti-regime protests.
“Imprisoned college students must be released!”
On Thursday, high school students returned to the streets despite measures by the regime to prevent protests from taking shape. In Qazvin, northwest Iran, students were chanting, “Imprisoned college students must be released!”
In Parand of Tehran Province, protesters were chanting slogans against the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) paramilitary Basij, the main force used to suppress protests and dissidents. Students in Parand also chanted “I will kill those who killed my sister!” In Tehran, protesters were seen chanting of “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the dictator!” in the districts of Kamraniyeh and Tehranpars.
In Sanandaj, protesters blocked roads with fire and chanted anti-regime slogans. At night protests were reported in several cities, including Kermanshah, Hamedan, Sanandaj, and Tehran.
These protests 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.
In Khorasgan of Isfahan Province in central Iran local farmers held protests for a third day. In the city of Saqqez of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, teachers from the hometown of Mahsa Amini went on strike in support of the people of Sistan & Baluchestan Province following the regime’s massacre in Zahedan on September 30 that left hundreds killed and wounded. Teachers in Saqqez were also donating blood for those in need in Zahedan.
Saqqez, western #Iran
Teachers in #MahsaAmini's hometown #MahsaAmini donated blood for wounded locals in Zahedan, southeast Iran, who were gunned down by security forces last Friday.
Zahedan's hospitals are facing a severe blood shortage due to the high number of wounded people. pic.twitter.com/kmU2z4cAb5— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) October 6, 2022
Meeting with Members of European Parliament on the invitation of the Friends of a Free Iran Committee, Iranian opposition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi said the people of Iran expect Europe to recognize their right to defend themselves against the regime’s brutal attacks, and to resist and fight for their freedom.
Meeting with MEPs on the invitation of the Friends of a Free Iran Committee -The people of #Iran expect Europe to recognize their right to defend themselves against the regime’s brutal attacks, and to resist and fight for their freedom.#IranRegimeChangehttps://t.co/e5YF3TeZl3
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) October 6, 2022
Iran’s regime has been escalating its arrests of youths, especially activists and protesters. Ali Salehi, public prosecutor of Tehran, inspected the Greater Tehran and Evin prisons. “We will take firm judicial action, without any reservations, against those rioters that rose against national security. The dossiers of these individuals will be evaluated in special manner and pushed forward in the process,” he said in an interview with the semi-official Mehr news agency on October 4.
Hajar Chenarani, a member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) referred to the fact that teenagers in vast numbers are protesting the mullahs’ rule. “Most of the individuals arrested in the recent events in [Razavi Khorasan] province are 14 to 18 years of age,” she said in an interview with the state-run Entekhab website on October 5.
“We will pursue this matter through the Majlis and other entities, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), to once again see a revolutionary cleansing across the country,” said Majlis member Mohammad Reza Mitajeddini in an interview with the IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency on October 1.
Furthermore, the PMOI/MEK Social Headquarters inside Iran has detailed how oppressive regime agents are targeting protesters, specifically those who have been gathering footage of the uprising in universities and different locations across Iran. Agents have shot protesters with pellet rounds and paintballs to prevent them from disseminating information or sending clips of the protests over the Internet. According to the report, hundreds of people who were taking videos of the uprisings have been arrested so far.
