Iran’s nationwide uprising continues to gain momentum as the country prepares to welcome Nowruz, the Iranian calendar new year.
Despite extreme security measures by the regime, protests over harsh living and working conditions are escalating in cities and towns checkered across the country. According to reports from the network associated with Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) inside the country, MEK Resistance Units launched 2,468 acts of protests in 73 cities across the country and 38 districts of Tehran on Tuesday night. This is in spite of the deployment of 45,000 troops in Tehran alone, and the pre-emptive mass arrests and intimidation campaigns by the IRGC and Basij.
Protesters are holding the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and paramilitary Basij units responsible for their miseries. Protests in Iran have expanded to at least 282 cities, and over 750 people have been killed, with more than 30,000 arrested by the regime’s forces, according to sources of the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.
Locals in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, are paying their respects to protesters killed by the mullahs’ regime in the ongoing Iranian revolution. Similar gatherings were held in the cities of Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, Karaj, Ahvaz, Rasht, Mahabad, Dehgolan, Bukan, Kamyaran, Divandarreh, Shahriar, Saqqez, Kermanshah, Divandarreh, Isfahan, Shahin Shahr, Arak, Izeh, and others.
Families of a number of death row inmates rallied outside Urmia Central Prison in northwest Iran to prevent their hangings, while pensioners and retirees protested high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, and their poor work/living conditions in cities like Shush and Ahvaz.
Meanwhile, locals in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, paid their respects to protesters killed by the mullahs’ regime in the ongoing Iranian revolution. Similar gatherings were held in several other cities.
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.
As the country enters the Iranian calendar new year, it remains to be seen how the regime will handle the growing unrest and the people’s demands for change. The Iranian people’s call for freedom, justice, and democracy appears to be only getting stronger with each passing day.
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