Iran’s nationwide protests continue on Tuesday, with unrest in a number of cities marking the 54th day of the movement. On Monday, Kurdish cities saw nonstop protests, with college and high school students across the country boycotting classes and/or taking to the streets in anti-regime demonstrations. Protests in Iran have now spread to at least 218 cities. According to sources from the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the regime’s forces have killed over 550 people and arrested over 30,000. The MEK has released the names of 368 protesters who were killed.

 

 

On Tuesday morning, students at Tehran’s National University held a protest rally and boycotted classes. Similar protests have been reported at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University and the University of Science and Culture, as well as the Ershad-Damavand University in Damavand, Tehran Province. As per reports, all students and professors at Sanandaj University of Medical Sciences are still on strike, as are students at Najafabad University in Isfahan Province and high school students in Ahvaz. More reports of high school students taking to the streets have come in from Karaj, a city just west of Tehran.

 

 

According to reports from Isfahan, the workers and employees of the city’s famous Isfahan steel mill, once the largest in the Middle East, are on strike. Furthermore, according to reports, 37 Pars oil and gas platforms in various areas of southern Iran are on strike.

Locals in Marivan gathered at the grave of Nasrin Qaderi, a protester killed recently by the regime’s oppressive security forces, and turned the ceremony into an anti-regime rally, chanting anti-mullah slogans such as “Death to Khamenei!” and “Damned be Khomeini!”

 

 

People in Zahedan, the capital of the Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeast Iran, are reporting a general strike, with store owners closing their doors. This strike is in solidarity with the ongoing Iranian uprising and in response to the regime’s massacres in this city on September 30 and in Khash last Friday. On November 8, a similar strike was reported in Tabrzi, a major economic zone in northwest Iran.

On Monday morning, reports from Marivan, Kurdistan Province, western Iran, indicated a continuing general strike and clashes between protesters and regime security forces in various parts of the city. People in Bukan, another city in northwest Iran, are reportedly out in the streets in support of the Marivan protesters. Protesters can be seen setting up roadblocks and seizing control of their streets.

 

 

People in the northern Iranian city of Siahkal, Gilan Province, held a memorial ceremony for Erfan Zamani, a protester killed recently by the mullahs’ security forces. Authorities had sent a large number of oppressive security forces to the city, who eventually opened fire on the participants in the ceremony. Despite the crackdown and heavy rain, the participants held firm. According to some reports, authorities bused in non-native security forces.

Protests spread throughout the night to several cities, including Bukan, Sanandaj, Saqqez, and Mahabad. Despite security forces’ efforts to disperse them, protesters lit fires in the streets and chanted anti-regime slogans. Protesters in Marivan targeted a Basij base in response to the regime’s recent brutal crackdown on protests.

 

 

Iranian opposition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi emphasized the tenacity of Iran’s ongoing protests and revolution. “The Iranian people’s powerful uprising continues. “It is a revolution to bring freedom and democracy to Iran,” she explained.

 

 

 

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