Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 268 day on Saturday following a busy day of demonstrations and anti-regime rallies in Zahedan, and brave youths in the cities of Urmia and Qazvin launching attacks against regime sites. The mullahs’ regime has been going the distance to prevent these protests and quell dissent, even resorting to an increasing number of executions and abducting families of protesters killed by security forces in the recent Iranian revolution.
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- Friday, June 9, 2023 #IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/DPkRGsmWaD
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The latest reports indicate brave youths in the city of Urmia in northwest Iran attacked a building of the regime’s so-called judiciary as a message in response to Friday’s visit by regime President Ebrahim Raisi to this part of the country. At least one explosion is being reported from this site.
In the city of Qazvin, brave youths attacked a base of the regime’s State Security Forces’ Special Anti-Riot Unit. This attack is being described as a response to Friday’s executions in this city and Zahedan in southeast Iran. At least one explosion is being reported from this site.
June 10 – Shush, Southwest #Iran
Workers of Hepco Sugarcane Co. rally to protest retirement rules that will further put pressure on their livelihoods.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/xEbvkoYMZq— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 10, 2023
The courageous people of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan in southeast Iran, took to the streets on Friday, marking the 36th week of anti-regime protests as they continue the struggle against the mullahs’ regime. Demonstrators were rallying in large numbers and chanting slogans against the ruling theocracy and their oppressive policies against the Iranian people, especially the country’s ethnic minorities. Some of the slogans chanted during Friday’s demonstration are as follows:
“My martyred brother, I will avenge your blood!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we will stand to the end!”
“My martyred brother, I will avenge your blood!”
“Political prisoners must be released!”
“Iranians, unity, revolution, freedom!”
“So many years of crimes! Down with [the mullahs’ regime]!”
Demonstrators in today’s rally also held placards calling for unity among all of Iran’s ethnic groups. “Lors, Turkimens, Gilacs, Talesh, Mazanis, we send our greetings and kindness to you from Baluchestan,” one poster read, while another raised by the brave protesters read: “Although there are many dangers in freedom, we prefer it to slavery!”
June 9 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Demonstrators have taken to the streets and are chanting: "My martyred brother, I will avenge your blood!"#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/WuVvOoGxXI— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 9, 2023
Regime authorities imposed heavy internet crackdown measures in Zahedan on Friday in an attempt to prevent activists from posting videos and providing reports of their anti-regime demonstration on Friday. “Metrics show that internet connectivity has been disrupted in Zahedan, Iran; the incident is in keeping with a pattern of internet shutdowns targeting weekly anti-government protests during Friday prayers,” according to Netblocks, the UK-based internet observatory organization tracking network disruptions and shutdowns across the globe.
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Incoming reports from inside Iran indicate that two inmates were executed on Thursday in the prisons of Qazvin (northwest Iran) and Zahedan (southeast Iran), according to the Iran Human Rights Center. Houshang Amirzadeh was hanged in Qazvin Central Prison after being arrested three ago and sentenced to death on drug-related charges. Alidoust Samalani, 45, from the city of Zabol in southeast Iran, was in prison for the past two years and hanged on Thursday in Zahedan Central Prison, also in southeast Iran.
A woman held in Urmia Central Prison of northwest Iran has been transferred to solitary confinement on Thursday in preparation to be executed, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Other reports indicate that two male inmates in this facility have also been transferred to incommunicado and activists believe they could be executed late Thursday or early Friday morning local time.
Reports indicate two inmates were executed early Wednesday morning in Karaj Central Prison, located in Iran’s Alborz Province and west of the capital Tehran, according to the Iran Human Rights Center. One of the individuals has been identified as Einollah Badrinezhad and the two were transferred to be executed on June 3. This same source indicates two other inmates have been transferred to solitary confinement on Wednesday in preparation for their execution.
Two inmates by names of Malek Baluch Mahani and Kambiz Barzekar held in Kerman Central Prison located in south-central Iran were executed early Tuesday morning in this facility, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Around 150 people have been executed across the country by the mullahs’ regime from May 1 to this day.
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 9 – Berlin, Germany
Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the #Iran opposition PMOI/MEK holding a photo exhibition in solidarity with #IranRevolution.pic.twitter.com/dm8gWQyIak— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 9, 2023