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People across Iran took to the streets in many cities on Tuesday protesting the recent chemical gas attacks targeting schools and universities, especially all-girls facilities. Popular anger is escalating as more people, if not all, are pointing fingers at the regime and its security forces.
People consider it impossible that a nationwide campaign of gas attacks targeting schools could continue for months without the knowledge of at least some in the mullahs’ regime and their vast security apparatus. To add insult to injury, reports indicate school authorities and the regime are busy covering up the attacks after they have been carried out.
People throughout the country are specifically holding the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive the 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 647 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
People in the Narmak and Sattarkhan districts of Tehran, and the city of Rasht took to the streets to mark International Women’s Day and chant various anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Basij & IRGC, you are our ISIS!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
“With or without the hijab, we’re headed for a revolution!”
“The movement continues!”
In Tehran regime authorities deployed anti-riot units that began firing shot tear gas and shotgun pellet rounds to disperse the demonstrators.
In the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, locals were heard chanting “Death to the dictator!”
March 8 – Tehran, #Iran
Women in the Narmak district chanting:
"Death to the dictator!"
"Basij & IRGC, you are our ISIS!"
"This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!"
Anti-riot units were deployed & shot tear gas & shotgun pellet rounds.#IWD2023pic.twitter.com/umMH49UwVX— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 8, 2023
Reports from Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, western Iran, indicate that local officials ordered a large number of security units into the streets to prevent any kind of rallies and gatherings marking International Women’s Day.
In Khash of Sistan & Baluchestan Province in southeast Iran, women launched a demonstration on Wednesday and began chanting slogans against the mullahs’ regime, including:
“Political prisoners must be released!”
“Women’s freedom is our right!”
“From Zahedan to Tehran, my life for Iran!”
March 8 – Khash, southeast #Iran
Baloch women protesting and chanting:
"Political prisoners must be released!"
"Women's freedom is our right!"
"From Zahedan to Tehran, my life for Iran!"#IWD2023 #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/dxjUvn20O5— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 8, 2023
People and parents in different cities across Iran were rallying on Tuesday morning and protesting the recent chemical gas attacks by regime operatives targeting their children in the country’s schools. These protests were reported in the cities of Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Karaj, Ardabil, Ahvaz, Lahijan, Babol, Rasht, Lahijan, Kashmar, Harsin, Saqqez, Aligudarz, Qazvin, Sanandaj, and others. In Shiraz, the protesters were seen chanting “Death to the child-killing regime!”
Local teachers in the city of Mashhad were also protesting these attacks targeting their students and schools. In Marivan, authorities were deploying security units to prevent locals from holding rallies protesting the recent chemical gas attacks.
Similar protest gatherings were held in Kerman, Sari, Bandar Ganaveh, Neyshabur, Nourabad, Saqqez, and Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad Province, Sojas Rud of Zanjan Province.
Regime operatives launched chemical gas attacks on Tuesday morning targeting a number of all-girls schools in Zahedan, southeast Iran, leaving at least 53 students poisoned. A similar attack was carried out against a secondary school in a village near Urmia, northwest Iran, the town of Dalahu in Kermanshah Province, western Iran, and the city of Bandar Ganaveh in Bushehr Province, southern Iran. These attacks have left dozens of students poisoned and ill.
Further reports indicate additional chemical attacks targeting at least four more schools near Urmia.
March 7 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Regime operatives launched chemical gas attacks targeting a number of all-girls schools, leaving at least 53 students poisoned.#IranChemicalAttacks pic.twitter.com/Z0bNCQYU6u— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 7, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi condemned the ongoing chemical attacks by regime operatives targeting schools across the country while praising those who took to the streets today to protest the mullahs’ continuing atrocities.
“Let us salute the angry teachers in Iran who are protesting against the crime of gassing schoolgirls. Protests are spreading across the whole country. Only a mass uprising for democratic revolution can stop this crime of the regime against the nation’s children. Fearing the consequences of its great crime against schoolgirls in Iran, the regime is trying to downplay it. Contrary to Khamenei’s lies, the toxic gases targeting children are not on the market. They are produced and directed by the organs under his orders,” the NCRI President-elect explained.
Let us salute the angry teachers in Iran who are protesting against the crime of gassing schoolgirls. Protests are spreading across the whole country.
Only a mass uprising for democratic revolution can stop this crime of the regime against the nation's children.
Fearing the… https://t.co/N0XGcOuesA— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) March 7, 2023
People in Tehran, including the Punak and District 1 areas, began chanting anti-regime slogans on Tuesday night, including:
“Death to Khamenei!”
“Death to the child-killing regime!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”
“[Khamenei], the protests will not end!”
March 7 – Tehran, #Iran
People in the capital's Punak district began chanting anti-regime slogans:
"Death to Khamenei!"
"Death to the child-killing regime!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/KCQZk5aqIb— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 7, 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.
