The mullahs ruling Iran hanged a second protester linked to the ongoing nationwide uprising on Monday morning in the city of Mashhad. Majidreza Rahnavard was arrested during the recent protests and quickly sentenced to death on the mullah-fabricated charges of “Moharebeh”, or “waging war against God.”

 

State media are reporting that Rahnavard confessed to the charges, although regime authorities have a long history of forcing prisoners into filming coerced confessions. Rahnavard was reportedly not provided access to a lawyer, tortured while in captivity, and appeared in court with injuries, according to various sources.

Regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the mullahs’ apparatus are resorting to these executions in an effort to install fear in Iranian society and silence the ongoing protests. The international community has an obligation to hold this murderous regime accountable and recognize the Iranian people’s right to self-defense.

 

 

Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 280 cities. Over 700 people have been killed and more than 30,000 are arrested by the regime’s forces, according to sources of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 580 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

Regime authorities had Mohsen Shekari hanged last Thursday on charges of participating in recent protests as part of the ongoing Iranian uprising. The Iranian people have responded by condemning Shekari’s execution and continuing their anti-regime demonstrations. State media in Iran and their social media affiliates continue to publish a stream of reports about more young protesters being sentenced to death as means to intimidate the general public.

 

 

Early Sunday morning, students of Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran were seen protesting the regime authorities’ refusal to allow suspended students back on campus.

Various reports indicate that the regime’s security forces are on high alert in different cities to prevent protests. In Isfahan, the regime has deployed a large number of security forces in the streets to intimidate the public.

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed the Iranian people’s brave uprising and emphasized the continuation of the people’s struggle for freedom and democracy.

 

 

“The time has come for ending the rule of repression. The time has come to establish a nation based on respect for human rights. And this will be so,” she The protests in Iran began following the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa (China) 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.

 

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