On Saturday, August 15, 2024, Iran’s rebellious youth, under the slogan “To have water, electricity, and freedom, one must set fires,” attacked the mullahs’ centers of suppression and plunder. Targets included the Basij forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), identified as the primary mafia plundering Iran’s electricity and water resources. Several other centers and symbols of the regime’s suppression and espionage were also targeted.
This series of operations was carried out with the reminder and emphasis that “The plundered bread and water of the enchained people must be brought down upon this regime with bricks and fire.” The actions included the following:
- Setting fire to the headquarters of the corrupt Khomeini Committee in Tehran.
- Setting fire to the regime’s foundation of corruption and plunder in Malard, Tehran.
- Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base in Rasht.
- Attacking a Basij base tasked with suppressing students in Sanandaj.
- Setting fire to a Basij operational base in Iranshahr.
- Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base in Suran.
- Setting fire to the a state-owned union for spying on and suppressing students in Qazvin.
- Setting fire to a signboard for the espionage headquarters of the Ministry of Intelligence in Farsan.
- Setting fire to government banners featuring images of Khomeini, Khamenei, and Ebrahim Raisi in Isfahan, Kerman, Andimeshk, Saravan, Izeh, Aligudarz, and Sureshjan (Shahrekord).
These activities by the rebellious youth, which serve as a beacon for uprising against the regime of execution and massacre, are taking place as the people of Babolsar protested for the fourth time on Saturday, August 15, against frequent power outages. On Friday, August 14, fed-up residents of Ramhormoz blocked a road to protest a plan to transfer water from the Alaa riverhead to Kohgiluyeh.
As protests continue across the country, state-run media, fearing an explosion of public anger, are warning about the “social and security effects” of power cuts. The Jahan-e Sanat daily wrote on August 17: “If the current trend continues, we will face three major challenges. First, a further decrease in production capacity; second, intensified inflationary pressure; and third, social and security effects resulting from unemployment and recession in various sectors… If serious and practical measures are not taken today, we will have to pay much higher costs tomorrow to compensate for the damages. These costs will be not only financial but also social and human.”
Fearing the social repercussions of water and power cuts during the scorching summer and the “securitization of social phenomena,” the regime’s Interior Minister, Eskandar Momeni, said on August 10: “Our main approach in the Ministry of Interior is to prevent social phenomena from becoming security issues, meaning we should resolve social phenomena through their own mechanisms… The neighborhood-based approach that Mr. President [Masoud Pezeshkian] proposed is intended to, God willing, control social harms…”
The ultimate solution and response, however, lies in uprising, outcry, and fiery strikes against the institutions of plunder belonging to a regime that has stolen the people’s sovereignty and freedom and has looted and wasted the nation’s wealth, natural resources, water, and bread. As the rebellious youth say, “The solution to water, electricity and freedom is fire.”