Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 270th day on Monday following a day of protests by different sectors of the Iranian society coupled a busy weekend of rallies by members of the Iranian Diaspora, especially supporters of the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK, in support of the Iranian people’s revolution. Retirees of the regime’s Social Security Organization and Iran’s disabled community were in the streets demanding their rights and for the regime to abide by its own laws. The country’s economy is in shambles and millions of people are finding it extremely difficult to make ends meet.
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.
#IranProtests at a Glance on Sunday, June 11, 2023 pic.twitter.com/Ttdsmog3Xk
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Brave youths and members of the MEK network of Resistance Units across Iran have launched a new campaign of anti-regime attacks and measures in the capital Tehran and at least nine other cities, responding to the mullahs’ brutal wave of executions and terrorist attacks. These attacks and measures include:
- MEK Resistance Units torched a large billboard of Khamenei and regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini on a pedestrian bridge on Tehran’s Saadi Expressway
- Brave youths in Karaj, west of Tehran, attacked a building used by the regime to promote the mullahs’ ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism
- MEK Resistance Units torched a large image of Khomeini in Isfahan, central Iran
- Brave youths using Molotov cocktails attacked a so-called “Khomeini Relief Center” in Bandar Anzali, northern Iran
- Brave youths attacked an IRGC paramilitary Basij base in Yazd, central Iran
- MEK Resistance Units torched billboards and large posters of Khomeini and Khamenei in the cities of Tehran, Eshtehard, Shiraz, Sari, Bukan, and Nourabad
Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s telecom industry in numerous cities across the country are rallying on Monday protesting their low pensions and poor economic conditions. These gatherings, following a similar weekly trend, are reported in Tehran, Ahvaz, Zahedan, Mashhad, Arak, Tabriz, Shiraz, Dezful, Zanjan, Sanandaj, Borujerd, Bojnurd, Rasht, Shahrekord, and Yasuj, among others. This continues previous gatherings held during the past few weeks and months in Tehran and other cities across the country.
In the past few years, retirees across Iran have been protesting to 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.
June 12 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
More footage of retirees and pensioners of the regime's telecom industry from across Khuzestan Province marching and protesting low pensions and poor economic conditions.#IranProtests2023pic.twitter.com/yFJKFWpuHU— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 12, 2023
A group of families of hemophilia patients in Tehran, the capital of Iran, held a gathering outside the Food and Drug Organization of the regime’s Health Ministry protesting the officials’ refusal to provide access to a new medicine for this illness called Hemlibra, or Emicizumab.
Hemlibra is far more efficient than previous medicine used for hemophilia and relieves the patient of needing daily injections. Considering the fact that Hemlibra doses provide month-long relief, this new drug is considered a revolution for hemophilia patients.
The cost of previous medication for hemophilia patients in Iran is estimated at between eight and ten billion rials (around $16,670 to $20,800) and was provided for by insurance companies. However, those medicines were not adequate for hemophilia patients under the age of 15 as they would need treatment through prophylaxis methods. Furthermore, most of these patients suffered from severe bleeding and sometimes even paralysis. There have also been cases of death.
June 12 – Tehran, #Iran
A group of families of hemophilia patients held a gathering outside the Food & Drug Org. of the regime’s Health Ministry protesting the officials’ refusal to provide access to a new medicine for this illness called Hemlibra, or Emicizumab.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/4ztvRG8Ji8— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 12, 2023
Municipality workers in the city of Yasuj in southwest Iran are holding a protesting gathering on Monday demanding the expulsion of the city mayor. These protesting workers are complaining that they have not been paid for the past three months.
Locals in the districts of Ekbatan and South Jannat Abad of the Iranian capital Tehran were chanting anti-regime slogans on Sunday night, including “Down with Khamenei!” and “Down with the dictator!” in reference to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
June 12 – Yasuj, southwest #Iran
Municipality workers are holding a protest gathering demanding the expulsion of the city mayor. The protesting workers are complaining that they haven't been paid for three months.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/K7EoNkF1kC— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 12, 2023
Two inmates by the names of Hossein Amaninezhad and Hamed Yavari were executed in Hamadan Prison in western Iran early Sunday morning local time, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights citing reports from inside Iran. Another two inmates by the names of Masoud Sasani and Saeed Nasiri were executed in Karaj Central Prison, located west of the capital Tehran, early Saturday morning local time.
Hossein Amaninezhad was arrested six years ago and sentenced to death by the regime’s so-called judiciary. Sasani and Nasiri were from the village of Doran near the city of Karaj.
Reports of these executions have yet to be published in the regime’s state media or outlets associated to the mullahs’ so-called judiciary.
Another inmate by the name of Dariush Rahimi, on death row in Vakil Abad Prison of Mashhad in northeast Iran, was carried out early Sunday morning, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights citing reports from inside Iran. Details of Rahimi’s case remain unclear. He was sentenced to death by the 5th Branch of the First Criminal Court in Razavi Khorasan Province and upheld by the regime’s Supreme Court.
The majority of the Parliament of Moldova has joined an expanding international campaign of support for the Iranian people’s revolution, the ten-point plan of Maryam Rajavi as the President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition NCRI, and to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization. This is in line with similar support and solidarity by the majorities of parliaments and elected officials across Europe, including Slovenia, Iceland, Scotland, and the United Kingdom.
53 MPs of the Moldovan Parliament’s 101 members have issued a joint statement announcing their stance alongside the Iranian people in their struggle to establish a democratic republic in Iran based on separation of religion and state.
One deputy chair of parliament, three committee chairs, ten deputy chairs of various committees, and 19 members of the Foreign Policy and European Integration; National Security, Defense and Public Order; Judicial; and Human Rights and Interethnic Relations committees are among the signatories of this joint statement.
The Iranian people, through their slogans during the Iranian revolution, have rejected all forms of dictatorships, including the ousted Shah’s regime and the current religious tyranny, and also denounce any ties with these two dictatorships, the statement stresses.
The Moldovan MPs are also placing their support behind the ten-point plan of Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), for the Iran of tomorrow. The plan includes free elections, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, banning the death penalty, gender equality, separation of religion and state, autonomy and self-government, and a non-nuclear Iran.
The Moldovan Parliament majority condemns the killing of more than 750 demonstrators and the apprehension of more than 30,000 others during the Iranian revolution and called for an end to the killing spree.
This statement also condemns the Iranian regime’s meddling in the Middle East and Europe, including terrorism and cyberattacks in Albania.
The Moldovan MPs reiterate that the Iranian people’s revolution is a result of the Iranian society’s explosive status due to the regime’s heavy crackdown on the one hand, and an organized resistance movement that has spanned across the country for the past four decades on the other.
The Moldovan Parliament majority statement highlights the fact that in the summer of 1988 more than 30,000 political prisoners, consisting mostly of MEK members and supporters, were massacred in barbaric fashion. As a result, the Moldovan MPs in this statement call on the international community to hold regime officials accountable for crimes against humanity.
Local steel mill workers in the city of Malayer in Hamadan Province, western Iran, were holding a gathering on Sunday protesting not receiving their paychecks for the past six months. Officials dispatched security forces who attacked the protesting workers using pepper spray and batons.
June 11 – Malayer, Hamadan Province, western #Iran
Local steel mill workers are protesting not receiving their paychecks for the past six months. Officials dispatched security forces who attacked the protesting workers using pepper spray and batons.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/3icfyklVQf— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 11, 2023
Disabled locals in the city of Kermanshah, western Iran, were rallying outside the Provincial Health Organization on Sunday morning protesting the regime’s refusal to implements its own laws on supporting disabled individuals. Similar gatherings were held in the capital Tehran and the cities of Kerman, Qom, Arak, Borujerd, and Ardabil.
On May 28, disabled individuals held a gathering outside the regime’s Majlis (parliament) in Tehran demanding answers about the government’s budget regarding the country’s disabled individuals and their poor living conditions. Iran’s disabled community has long been complaining that regime officials have cancelled necessary budgets that would provide for their basic needs.
June 11 – Kermanshah, western #Iran
Disabled locals rally outside the Provincial Health Organization protesting the regime's refusal to implements its own laws on supporting disabled individuals.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/NkQq8sGIvh— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 11, 2023
Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the cities of Kermanshah and Shush, western and southwest Iran, respectively, were rallying and holding gatherings on Sunday protesting poor living conditions and medical care, and demanding their rights.
Pensioners and retirees are among the worst-hit segments of Iran’s society. They depend on government stipends to make ends meet, but the regime has refused to increase their pensions in correspondence with growing inflation and the depreciation of the national currency.
The government has long provided many hollow promises of increasing pensions. It was also supposed to settle unpaid pensions remaining from previous years. So far, it has yet to deliver on both demands.
Interestingly, the regime’s own media reported that The Social Security Investment Company (SHASTA), the financial institution that is supposed to fund retirees, has seen a significant increase in its profits in the past years. However, these profits have yet to materialize in the lives of pensioners and retirees.
June 11 – Kermanshah, western #Iran
Retirees and pensioners of the regime's Social Security Organization protesting poor living conditions and medical services and voicing their economic woes.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/XWV2X7sw4B— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 11, 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.
June 10 – Ottawa, Canada
Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK rallied in solidarity with the #IranRevolution. #Iran pic.twitter.com/LVCe2fE1rN— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 11, 2023
