Monday, January 13, 2019, marked the third consecutive day of protests by university students and Iranian citizens in various cities in Iran. The protests began on January 11th after regime officials admitted that they shot down an Iranian airliner bound for Kyiz, killing all 176 passengers. Many of the people on board the downed plane were Iranian university students.

Anti-regime protests resumed this morning for the second day in the row. Reports from the Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/ MEK) network inside Iran indicates, protests in several universities in Tehran including Sharif Technological University, National University (Melli), Allameh Tabataba’i University, and in Isfahan university of technology, in which almost all of the slogans were centered against regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei that clearly describes the aspirations of the Iranian people for regime change in Iran.

Defiant youth torched Soleimani’s posters in Tehran and other cities, January 7- IranQassem Soleimani, leader of the notorious Quds Force, a branch of  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed during the recent drone strike by the United States. The Iranian regime has seen this as a major blow considering Soleimani’s key role in furthering Iran’s agenda across the region.

Despite the regime’s efforts to minimize the number of people killed by security forces during the November Uprising, MEK Iran sources have successfully tracked deaths, injuries, and arrests of civilians and shared them with international media. The widespread publication of the regime’s brutality has led to outrage and hand wringing from some regime officials, who would prefer to hide the mullahs’ crimes and delegitimize the MEK in Iran and abroad.

December 26, 2019, marks the 40^th day of mass killings of the protesters in Iran. Following the shutdown of Internet access in some of the provinces, the clerical regime in fear of new protests has attempted to arrest the families and young relatives of martyrs. Some of the freed political prisoners have been arrested again. The regime has also put its suppressive forces on high alert.

December 25 – Najafabad, central #Iran
Locals parading on motorcycles with images of civilians killed by the regime's security forces during the November uprising.#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/gb20wX1EmJ

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 26, 2019

On December 25, 2019, the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a statement in this regard.

“In a related development, terrified of the resumption of the uprising on the eve of the 40-day commemoration of the martyrs, the mullahs have put their suppressive forces in Tehran and other cities on full alert. IRGC’s Sarollah patrols, wearing plains clothes, roam the streets of Tehran. The IRGC has canceled leaves for all its personnel until further notice. Simultaneously, access to the Internet has been cut off or slowed down in some cities, such as Tehran and Karaj.” NCRI statement reads in part.

These measures are taken while more than a month after the uprising, the clerical regime continues its efforts to conceal the actual number of the martyrs, the wounded, and those arrested. This reflects the regime’s extreme alarm over the international and domestic consequences of committing a major crime against humanity. At the same time, Iran’s main opposition group the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) released the names of 13 more martyrs of the Iran protests, bringing to 601 the number of those identified so far.

Names of 13 More Martyrs of the Nationwide Uprising Released https://t.co/b31amCeteR#FreeAllProtesters #StopIranBloodshed #IranProtests

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) December 25, 2019

“The crime against humanity, which began with the massacre of unarmed and defenseless protesters in November, is continuing with mass and arbitrary arrests, torture and disposing of prisoners, harassing thousands of families by keeping them in the dark about the fate of their children, cutting off communication, and blocking information. The regime will construe silence and inaction as a green light to continue and intensify its crimes against humanity.” NCRI statement reads adding:

“Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), called on the international community to take urgent action to stop the killings in Iran. She said the United Nations Security Council must declare this massacre, continuing for 40 days, as a crime against humanity so that those responsible, none other than the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, its President Hassan Rouhani, and other officials, face justice. Mrs. Rajavi also called for the dispatch of UN delegation to Iran to investigate this major crime and visit those arrested.”

 

On Wednesday, December 25, 2019, the Iranian regime shut down mobile internet access to overseas sites in several provinces, a day before the 40^th day of since the protesters were killed all across Iranian cities.

The regime’s ILNA news agency quoted an informed source at the Communications and Information Technology Ministry as saying the shutdown was ordered by “security authorities” and covered the Alborz, Kurdestan and Zanjan provinces in central and western Iran and Fars in the south. The same Ministry announced that more provinces will be affected by the shutdown.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported activities of MEK Iran‘s Resistance Units including posting banners carrying pictures and messages of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the NCRI, and Mr. Massoud Rajavi, the Leader of the Iranian Resistance, in Tehran, as well as in cities of Ahvaz, Abadan, Rasht, Karaj, Sirjan, and Isfahan.

The Resistance units of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK) across Tehran conducted a major act of rebellion against the regime on Sunday night, by hanging up posters of MEK Leaders Maryam Rajavi and Massoud Rajavi with anti-regime quotes in different parts of the city.

Despite the brutal and bloody crackdown, the protests continue in different cities in Iran. It is reported that there were demonstrations and clashes last Saturday between protesters and security forces in cities of Fardis, Orumiyeh, Shiraz and areas around the port of Mahshahr.

Following widespread protests across Iran and shut down of internet by the regime to create an information blackout to stop the flow of information and brutal crackdown, on November 22 the U.S. Department of the Treasury, designated Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iranian regime’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology for his role in the Iranian regime’s widescale internet censorship.