As a growing percentage of the population falls into poverty, worsening economic conditions make it even more difficult for millions of people to make ends meet. As the country enters the 194th day of the nationwide uprising, people across the country are holding the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei specifically responsible for their plight, while also condemning the oppressive Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij units, as well as other security units on the ground suppressing peaceful demonstrators.

Protests in Iran have now spread to at least 282 cities. According to sources from the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the regime’s forces have killed over 750 people and arrested over 30,000. The MEK has released the names of 675 protesters who were killed. Teachers and educators are gathering in several cities to protest poor economic conditions, low pay, and the wrongful imprisonment of their colleagues. These rallies took place in Tabriz, Ardabil, Kermanshah, Baneh, Malayer, Hamadan, Zanjan, Bojnurd, Urmia, and other cities.

 

 

Retirees and pensioners from the regime’s Social Security Organization gathered in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, on Tuesday morning to protest high prices, inflation, low pensions, and other economic woes. Protests of a similar nature were held in Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan. Pensioners and retirees are among the hardest hit groups in Iran. They rely on government stipends to make ends meet, but the regime has refused to increase their pensions in line with rising inflation and currency depreciation.

The government has long made empty promises about increasing pensions. It was also supposed to settle any outstanding pensions from previous years. So far, it has failed to meet both requirements.

 

 

The MEK Resistance Units projected a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi on a building in the city’s Saheli Boulevard, while locals in the Narmak district of Tehran chanted anti-regime slogans.

Mechanic technicians in the industrial complex of Baneh went on strike and held a gathering protesting their stores’ rising rent prices. The protests have resulted in over 750 deaths and more than 30,000 arrests by the regime’s forces, according to MEK sources, with 675 names of killed protesters published by the organization.

 

 

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi reiterated the determination of the Iranian people to continue their anti-regime campaign and revolution against the mullahs’ regime in its entirety.

“The protestors and rebels of this land are the ones shaping Iran’s destiny. They are determined to defy all dictatorships and coercion, overthrow religious tyranny, and replace it with freedom and emancipation,” the NCRI President-elect underscored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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