Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 219th day on Saturday as workers of various oil, gas, and petrochemical sites across the country are on strike for a second day. This follows a day of protests by the brave people of Zahedan in Sistan & Baluchestan Province of southeast Iran, renewing their demonstrations and calls for the overthrow of the mullahs’ dictatorship.
People throughout Iran continue to specifically hold 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 Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 675 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
April 22- Gachsaran, southwest #Iran
Workers of the local petrochemical industry are on strike for the second day protesting their officials' refusal to increase their paychecks.#IranProtests #اعتصابات_سراسریpic.twitter.com/nXvhcRvPdS— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 22, 2023
Brave youths and protesters in Kermanshah, western Iran, launched an attack early Friday morning local time targeting the provincial IRGC site in response to the regime’s horrific chemical gas attacks targeting innocent schoolgirls across the country.
This IRGC command site is missioned to oversee the quelling of any and all protests across the province of Kermanshah, with a specific emphasis on the restive cities of Kermanshah and Javanrud, parallel to dispatching proxy forces to Syria.
April 21 – Kermanshah, western #Iran
Brave youths and protesters attacked the provincial IRGC site in response to the regime’s horrific chemical gas attacks targeting innocent schoolgirls across the country.#IranChemicalAttacks #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/WNDXsh8uiN— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 23, 2023
Workers of at least 44 different oil and petrochemical sites throughout Iran went on strike, some for a second day, on Saturday protesting the officials’ refusal to increase their salaries, demanding their delayed paychecks, and protesting low quality food and resting/housing facilities at their job sites. These protests were reported on Saturday from the following sites, among many others:
- A petrochemical industry site in Gachsaran, southwest Iran
- Workers of the Apadana petrochemical site in Asaluyeh, southern Iran
- Workers of the Exir Sanat Company, involved in various projects at a local oil refinery in Abadan, southwest Iran
- Workers of the Pars Kayhan Company, involved in various oil and gas projects in Isfahan, central Iran
- Workers of a local petrochemical site in Dehloran, western Iran
- Workers of the Persian Gulf Sadaf Petrochemical Company in Asaluyeh, southern Iran
- Workers of the Panah Industrial Company in Lordegan, southwest Iran
- Workers of the Ista Sanat Company in southern Iran
- Workers of the Kian Sazeh Benvar Company at a petrochemical complex in Isfahan, central Iran
- Workers of the Sadaf Jahan Pars petrochemical complex in southern Iran
- Workers of the IGC Company in Dehloran, western
- Workers of the Azar Metal Company at the Hengam petrochemical complex in Shiraz, south-central Iran
April 22 – Southern #Iran
Workers of the Ista Sanat Company at the local oil and gas industry are on strike protesting their officials' refusal to increase their paychecks.#IranProtests #اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/CoqC8vJSNQ— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 22, 2023
Workers of the Exir Sanat, Sekaf Oil & Gas and Abadrahan companies involved in various projects at major refinery of Abadan in southwest Iran launched a strike on Friday protesting the officials’ refusal to increase their salaries. Workers of oil, gas, and petrochemical industry sites in other cities, including Asaluyeh, Dehloran, and Gachsaran were also on strike on Friday.
Contract workers of the local steel mill in the city of Yazd, central Iran, were also on strike on Friday protesting their officials’ refusal to increase their salaries.
April 21 – Yazd, central #Iran
Contract workers of the local steel mill have launched a strike protesting the officials' refusal to raise their salaries.#IranProtests #اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/CHiIzNGCkk— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 21, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed the brave workers of Iran’s oil, gas, and petrochemical industry from across the country that are standing up for their rights and delivering a severe blow to the mullahs’ regime.
“Oil and petrochemical workers across cities such as Gachsaran, Asaluyeh, Dehloran, Shiraz, Bushehr, Lordegan, Sirjan, Jask, Kangan, Kerman, and others have initiated a strike. I extend my support to them. Workers and laborers in our country are being deprived of their basic rights and are living in deplorable conditions, while the leaders of the regime, the IRGC commanders, and their corrupt offspring are looting the Iranian people’s resources. They are spending the country’s wealth on anti-patriotic nuclear and missile programs and warmongering to maintain their regime. The only viable solution is to stand up and overthrow the regime to attain freedom, justice, and popular sovereignty,” the NCRI President-elect explained.
Oil and petrochemical workers across cities such as Gachsaran, Asaluyeh, Dehloran, Shiraz, Bushehr, Lordegan, Sirjan, Jask, Kangan, Kerman, and others have initiated a strike. I extend my support to them. Workers and laborers in our country are being deprived of their basic…
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 22, 2023
People in different parts of the Iranian capital Tehran, including Chitgar, Shahrak-e Bagheri, and Shahran began chanting anti-regime slogans on Saturday night local time. Their slogans included:
“Down with Khamenei, the murderer!”
“Down with the dictator!”
April 22 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Chitgar district began chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
"Down with the dictator!"#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/bmRn2Q13jc— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 22, 2023
People in Zahedan were in the streets again on Friday renewing their anti-regime demonstrations following their mass prayers. Reports and footage posted on social media by local activists showed a large crowd of people launching a major rally, marching, and chanting slogans against the mullahs’ regime and their apparatus of oppressive forces. Their slogans included:
“So many years of crimes! Down with the mullahs’ regime!”
“I will kill those who killed my brother!”
“Basij and IRGC, you are our ISIS!”
“Down with the Basij!”
“Khamenei, have some shame! Let go of the country!”
April 21 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Protesters are marching and chanting:
"So many years of crimes! Down with the mullahs' regime!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs #IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/FEPzGMwRUs— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 21, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi praised the people of Zahedan for recontinuing their anti-regime demonstrations in a courageous manner and standing firm against the mullahs’ regime.
“I salute the heroic people of Zahedan who took to the streets after the Eid al-Fitr prayers. With their chants of ‘Death to Khamenei’ and ‘100 years of crimes, death to Velayat (Khamenei),’ they demonstrated their legitimate demand to be free from the clutches of this corrupt and ruthless regime. Without doubt, Iran’s brave children will realize the overthrow of the mullahs’ criminal and ignorant regime,” the NCRI President-elect highlighted.
I salute the heroic people of Zahedan who took to the streets after the #EidAlFitr prayers.pic.twitter.com/Iinrtm8j38
With their chants of “Death to Khamenei” and “100 years of crimes, death to Velayat (Khamenei),” they demonstrated their legitimate demand to be free from the…— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 21, 2023
People in different cities of Iran, including Tehran, Saqqez, and Mahabad, were marking Eid al-Fitr and visiting their local cemeteries to pay respects to protesters killed by the mullahs’ regime during the recent protests of the Iranian uprising that began in September 2022. In Bukan, locals held a ceremony in memory of the Iranian revolution’s fallen heroes.
In Saqqez, the hometown of Mahsa Amini, authorities immediately dispatched their oppressive security units to prevent any possible anti-regime protests during the gathering. People at Mahsa Amini’s grave began chanting: “Down with the dictator!”
April 21 – Mahabad, western #Iran
Locals are marking Eid al-Fitr and paying their respects to brave protesters killed by the mullahs' regime during #IranRevoIution.
They're chanting: "Martyrs don't die!"pic.twitter.com/CFvxE6EIx0— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 21, 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.
