Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 272nd day on Wednesday as a growing number of people from all walks are taking to the streets to voice their protests over economic hardships and the regime’s crackdown. While more are being pushed into poverty and finding it more and more difficult to make ends meet, the mullahs’ regime is escalating its pressures on the society while regime-linked elements across the country are continuing their plundering and corrupt practices to pocket massive amounts of wealth.
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 Tuesday, June 13, 2023 pic.twitter.com/OTkMvoPqtT
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) June 14, 2023
Brave youths and members of the MEK network of Resistance Units across Iran are engaged in a new campaign of anti-regime attacks and measures in the capital Tehran and at least ten other cities and towns, responding to the mullahs’ brutal wave of executions, deadly crackdown measures, and terrorist attacks. These attacks and measures include:
- Brave youths in the Nazarabad area near Karaj, located west of Tehran, attacked a base of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij forces. At least one explosion was reported.
Nazarabad, Alborz Province, west of Tehran, #Iran
Brave youths attacked a base of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij forces. Multiple explosions were reported.#IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/swig1NA5N6— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 15, 2023
- 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
Pensioners and retirees of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the cities of Ahvaz and Kermanshah, southwest and western Iran, respectively, are holding rallies on Wednesday, protesting high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, poor living conditions and officials’ refusal to address their demands. A similar rally is being held in Ardabil, northwest Iran, where retirees are also demanding the release of unjustly detained workers and teachers.
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 14 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
More footage of retirees and pensioners of the regime's Social Security Organization outside the governor's office of Khuzestan Province protesting and voicing their economic woes.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/pdFzv2qznHpic.twitter.com/R9uGf3HeW9— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 14, 2023
Local railway workers in the city of Bam in Kerman Province, south-central Iran, are on strike on Wednesday protesting officials’ refusal to address their demands. Many of them have had many paychecks delayed for a very long time, some even years.
June 14 – Bam, south-central #Iran
Local railway workers are once again on strike protesting officials' refusal to address their demands. Many of them have had paychecks and pensions delayed for a very long time.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/U3F4JIdGnn— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 14, 2023
An inmate by the name of Milad Ghobadi was executed early Wednesday morning in Yasuj Central Prison located in southwest Iran, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. This individual was sentenced to death four years ago, according to the Iran Human Rights Organization. State media and outlets affiliated to the regime’s so-called judiciary have yet to report on this execution.
Regime authorities in Iran executed an inmate by the name of Hadi Al-Naser in Sheyban Prison of Ahvaz, southwest Iran on Monday. This follows the execution of at least six inmates on Sunday, including 33-year-old Dariush Rahimi in Vakil Abad Prison of Mashhad in northeast Iran, two inmates by the names of Hossein Amaninezhad and Hamed Bavari in Hamadan Prison of western Iran, a member of Iran’s Baluch community by the name of Ibrahim Gomshad-Zehi in Kerman Central Prison of south-central Iran, and Heydar Chashti and another inmate in Torbat-e Jam Prison of northeast Iran.
On Saturday regime authorities hanged two inmates in Karaj Central Prison located west of the capital Tehran. The names of these two inmates were Masoud Sasani and Saeed Nasiri. A member of Iran’s Baluch community by the name of Hassan Barahuie, held behind bars for five years, was executed on Wednesday, June 7, in Amir Abad Prison of Gorgan in northeast Iran. In total, the mullahs’ regime executed at least 59 inmates in the span of three weeks from May 22 to June 11.
Bazaar merchants and storeowners in the city of Saqqez, western Iran, were on strike on Tuesday protesting the regime’s plans to change the local cemetery in an effort to block sight to the grave of Mahsa Amini and roads leading to the area in general. Saqqez is the hometown of the 22-year-old Amini who was killed in custody of regime authorities Tehran back in in September 2022 after being arrested for “not properly covering her hair”. Her murder by the regime’s so-called “Morality Police” sparked nationwide protests and a major uprising against the mullahs’ regime.
June 13 – Saqqez, western #Iran
Bazaar merchants are on strike, protesting the regime's plans to change the city's cemetery in an effort to block sight to #Mahsa_Amini's grave and roads leading to the area in general.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/0oyMjRXt5S— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 13, 2023
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi praised the brave people of Saqqez people for standing up to the regime’s cruelty and reflecting the brewing anger among the entire nation against the mullahs’ regime.
“Saluting Saqqez‘s people and striking shopkeepers protesting repressive measures and the clerical regime’s plot to destroy and prevent access to Zhina Amini’s grave. Iranian women, youths, and Kurdish fighters remain resilient. The regime will never triumph,” she emphasized.
Saluting #Saqqez's people and striking shopkeepers protesting repressive measures and the clerical regime's plot to destroy and prevent access to Zhina Amini's grave. Iranian women, youths, and Kurdish fighters remain resilient. The regime will never triumph.#Iran
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) June 13, 2023
Locals in the capital’s Shahrak-e Bagheri district and the Golshahr district in the city of Karaj were chanting anti-regime slogans on Tuesday night local time, including:
“Down with the state of executions!”
“Down with the dictator!” in reference to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
June 13 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Shahrak-e Bagheri district are chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
"Down with the state of executions!"
"Down with the dictator!" in reference to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/n5IFzExb1G— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 13, 2023
On Tuesday, investors of the Cryptoland online exchange held a rally in Tehran demanding the IRGC-linked company to return their stolen money returned. Over 25,000 families have been wronged and robbed by the IRGC.
The users of Cryptoland have been holding protests for two years, but authorities are refraining from acting on their demands. Cryptoland had around 289,000 users, who have lost hundreds of millions worth of their savings in the online marketplace.
In the city of Dorud in Lorestan Province, western Iran, local cement factory workers are holding a gathering and protesting the regime’s new bill that aims to raise their retirement age and deprive them of their rights.
June 13 – Tehran, #Iran
Investors of the Cryptoland online exchange held a rally demanding the IRGC-linked company to return their stolen money.#IranProtests2023 #اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/zzowcMOf2Z— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 13, 2023
Locals farmers in the town of Chenaran in Razavi Khorasan Province of northeast Iran were holding a gathering on Tuesday protesting electricity blackouts at their nearby wells. Regime authorities are imposing blackouts and only providing electricity to these farmers on four days a week.
Bazaar merchants and storeowners in Ardabil, a large city in northwest Iran, closed their shops and were on strike on Tuesday protesting heavy taxes imposed by regime officials.
Farmers in the town of Dalfard in Kerman Province of south-central Iran were protesting a recent decision by regime officials to shut down local well pumps that is denying their lands and crops of water.
June 13 – Chenaran, northeast #Iran
Locals farmers are protesting electricity blackouts at nearby wells. Regime authorities are imposing blackouts and only providing electricity to these farmers on four days a week.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/7Jqqeg9swG— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 13, 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 – Oslo, Norway
More footage of freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK rallying in solidarity with #IranRevolution and @Maryam_Rajavi's ten-point plan for a free #Iran.pic.twitter.com/JYSRp3mUzTpic.twitter.com/maQddY22Z0— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) June 13, 2023
