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Women in different cities across Iran, joined by others, marked International Women’s Day by taking to the streets and launching anti-regime protests. Such rallies, led by brave women marching and chanting slogans against the mullahs’ misogynist apparatus, were reported in the capital Tehran, the city of Rasht in northern Iran, and Khash in southeast Iran.
People throughout the country are specifically holding the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive 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 664 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
On Thursday night people in Tehran’s Shahrak-e Bagheri district began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Death to the dictator!”
“Death to the IRGC!”
“Death to Khamenei, the murderer!”
Locals in a metro station of the country’s capital were also seen chanting anti-regime slogans when a metro train was malfunctioning. These are reminders for regime official of how simple daily issues can instantly turn into scenes of anti-regime protests and rallies.
March 9 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Shahrak-e Bagheri district began chanting anti-regime slogans:
"Death to the dictator!"
"Death to the IRGC!"
"Death to Khamenei, the murderer!"#IranProtests2023 #FreeIran pic.twitter.com/v1rfao4ZO1— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 9, 2023
People in the Narmak and Sattarkhan districts of Tehran, and the city of Rasht held demonstrations to mark International Women’s Day and chanted 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!”
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!”
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi marked Int’l Women’s Day by praising the role of brave Iranian women in the relentless uprising against the mullahs’ misogynist regime in its entirety.
“Women’s leadership guarantees democracy and equality. A century ago, women fought for the right to vote, and today, they are fighting to change the world. International Women’s Day has a unique radiance and unparalleled credibility all thanks to the remarkable bravery of Iranian women who have risen up against the oppressive mullahs’ regime,” the NCRI President-elect explained.
Women’s conference on #InternationalWomensDay
Women’s leadership guarantees democracy and equality
A century ago, women fought for the right to vote, and today, they are fighting to change the world
International Women’s Day unique radiance and unparalleled credibility all thanks… https://t.co/LwTstKZSgi pic.twitter.com/UheMnwa1FW— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) 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.
