In an immediate response to a crime committed by Iranian regime’s security forces and plainclothes agents in Qazvin and the brutal beating of several impoverished young street vendors, Iran’s rebellious youth attacked several regime targets, stressing that suppression will be answered with fire:
- Incendiary attack on the Khomeini Relief Committee in Eqbaliyeh, Qazvin province.
- Incendiary attack on a regime building in Ziaabad, Qazvin province
- Setting fire to a banner of Khamenei in Kermanshah.
- Setting fire to a banner of Khamenei in Kerman.
- Setting fire to a banner of Khamenei in Zanjan.
- Setting fire to a monument of terror master Qassem Soleimani in Rafsanjan.
- Setting fire to a signboard for the espionage unit of the IRGC’s Basij militia in Isfahan.
This series of operations was a response to a crime that took place in Qazvin. On August 31, a twenty-second video was circulated on social media showing the regime’s municipal agents dragging two young street vendors on the ground in one of the city’s main streets, beating them with pipes, fists, and kicks, while police officers came to the aid of the thugs. This shocking footage sparked a wave of public anger and immediately inflamed the social atmosphere.
Qazvin, northwest Iran
Security forces aggressively dismantle the stalls of street vendors and physically assault them, depriving them of the only means to make ends meet. pic.twitter.com/iYCEbzqKfG— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 31, 2025
The regime quickly realized the depth of the danger and resorted to damage control. The regime’s mayor of Qazvin claimed: “This film was edited!” But on the same day, state media, fearing the social consequences, issued warnings. The state-run Mehr News Agency admitted: “The published film… has sparked a wave of protest in the country.” The state-run Quds newspaper wrote: “The incident of the clash between municipal agents and street vendors on Norouzian Street in Qazvin has had widespread social and political dimensions,” adding: “This incident overshadowed the public atmosphere and had extensive repercussions in the media and social networks.”
The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency also warned in panic: “Such cases disturb the peace of society.” The official state news agency, IRNA, sounded the alarm about the eruption of public and rebel anger, writing: “Such confrontations lead to exploitation (by the enemy) of the troubled waters.”
The same source, IRNA, added in another fearful analysis: “The Qazvin incident was not merely a simple clash, but a symbol of the decreasing threshold of social tolerance in society, which warns that economic pressures, social inequalities, and a lack of job opportunities can lead to an increase in violence in daily behaviors.”
The government’s panicked reactions show that what happened in Qazvin was not a “simple incident,” but rather the regime sees it as a spark on the powder keg of a society whose tolerance has run out under the pressure of poverty, unemployment, and repression.
On the one hand, to continue his disgraceful rule and control a rebellious society, Khamenei unleashes his thugs on the hungry and defenseless people, but in this very criminal act, he ignites the sparks of an uprising.
The brutal assault on working street vendors in Qazvin once again exposes the savagery of the mullahs’ plunderous regime. While looting Iran’s wealth on nuclear projects, missiles, and foreign wars, it leaves educated youth jobless and pushes children into labor and even…
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) September 1, 2025
In a message following the Qazvin crime, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, wrote: “The brutal assault on working street vendors in Qazvin once again exposes the savagery of the mullahs’ plunderous regime. While looting Iran’s wealth on nuclear projects, missiles, and foreign wars, it leaves educated youth jobless and pushes children into labor and even homelessness—then cracks down on the poorest just trying to survive.
“The day is not far when the volcano of anger—workers, the jobless, and the marginalized, together with the Resistance Units and the Liberation Army in uprisings —will uproot this tyrannical regime once and for all.”