Iran’s uprising entered its 17th day on Sunday, with people taking to the streets in large protests alongside an expanding general strike movement. According to information gathered by the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) network across Iran, more than 170 cities across all 31 provinces have reported anti-regime protests from September into October, and the regime’s security forces have killed at least 400 protesters and arrested more than 20,000 across the country to date.

 

 

The bravery and fearlessness with which the people, particularly the youth, have rebelled against the forces of the regime are one of the main features of the recent protests in Iran. Iranian women have demonstrated exemplary behavior and unwaveringness. They have realized that the only way to free Iran from the Iranian regime is to demonstrate their resistance to its rule at all costs, overcome their fears, and reclaim the destiny that has been stolen from them for decades.

Following the brutal murder of Masha Amini, the Iranian people have once again united to fight and defeat Iran’s theocratic mullahs’ regime. Protests began in response to the mandatory hijab rules, but have since expanded with anti-regime slogans to address the Iranian regime’s various forms of repression.

 

A new wave of anti-regime protests erupted in Iran on September 16, 2022. By Tuesday, September 27, the uprising had been reported in at least 156 cities across all 31 provinces of the country, including 16 universities. On some days during this period, at least 30 protests took place in Tehran alone.

 

The current demonstrations in Iran seem to be following a very well-known and noteworthy pattern. They were started specifically as a reaction to the murder of Mahsa Amini and the underlying repression of women’s rights on Saturday. As Amini was buried the day after being murdered by “morality police” while on a visit to Tehran, the initial demonstrations were also generally confined to Iranian Kurdistan. However, since then, protests have spread to at least 100 cities, assuming a very broad political message as demonstrators once more signaled their demand for regime change with chants like “death to the dictator.”

The ongoing protests have been described as the largest and best-coordinated movement since the 2019 uprising and the protests that followed in a number of recent reports. The analogy is telling because those demonstrations followed a similar pattern, with participants airing complaints about the misuse of public funds before ultimately stating their belief that Iran’s theocratic dictatorship should be overthrown in favor of a completely new system that actually reflects the will of the people.

 

 

When the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei nominated Ebrahim Raisi as the only viable candidate for the June 2021 presidential election, he did so with the expectation that his sidekick would help to suppress further calls for regime change and anti-regime sentiment. Raisi’s prior participation as one of four members of the Tehran “death commission” during the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, which claimed over 30,000 lives nationwide, served as the basis for this expectation. The killings primarily targeted members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the country’s leading pro-democracy opposition group, which Khamenei acknowledged was a driving force behind the 2018 uprising.

In fact, Khamenei’s strategy quickly seemed to backfire. The vast majority of Iranian citizens declined to take part in the fake election that installed Raisi, at the behest of PMOI “Resistance Units.” Protests started following his administration almost immediately after he took office, with many activists publicly denouncing him as the “butcher of Tehran.” Before the end of his first year in office, the PMOI was reporting that Iran had experienced at least eight anti-regime uprisings since 2018. Chants of “death to the dictator” and “death to Raisi” began to appear during these protests as well.

 

 

Some of the most ferocious challenges to oppressive authorities were made during the first seven days of the demonstrations. Although human rights groups determined that security forces killed at least 40 people, protesters also fought back in self-defense.

A number of uprisings and associated instances of government repression have undoubtedly contributed to the simmering tensions that have contributed to the rapid escalation of this week’s protests. In November 2019, the largest recent uprising, mass shootings resulted in the deaths of roughly 1,500 people. Even though this did not stop additional large-scale protests from erupting only two months later, it did give many Iranians a strong sense of justice that had been denied for the previous three years. In those circumstances, the egregious injustice of Mahsa Amini’s death might have been enough to incite another uprising aimed at bringing a regime change.

 

 

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One of the most impoverished regions of the nation is Zahedan. In contrast to the girls, who typically work at tailor shops or provide water from pits for a minimum wage because most settlements lack piped water, the boys are required to work as porters at the Pakistani border after school.

 

On Thursday, September 22, people took to the streets in cities across Iran for the seventh consecutive day of anti-regime protests. In Tehran, a large crowd gathered on Keshavarz Blvd and chanted, “The supreme leader is a disgrace,” referring to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. These protests began following the death of Mahsa Amini. On Tuesday, September 13, a 22-year-old woman from the Kurdistan Province city of Saqqez was arrested by the regime’s so-called “Guidance Patrol” at the Haqqani Highway entrance and transferred to the “Moral Security” agency.

 

 

Iran has experienced numerous large-scale uprisings and countless local protests in numerous provinces since the end of 2017, involving people from a variety of demographics and professional affiliations. A recent study by the Supreme National Defense University (SNDU) on this ongoing phenomenon found that “three out of four Iranians participate in protests” and that a similar proportion can be anticipated to stay involved if another nationwide uprising occurs soon.

 

Time is running out to act on the recommendations of countless Iranian expatriates and supporters of Iran’s pro-democracy Resistance movement regarding the Iranian regime’s president, Ebrahim Raisi’s prospective attendance at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly’s 77th session.500 Iranian academics, scientists, and other professionals recently signed a statement reiterating those recommendations. The message was sent to the White House on Thursday, urging President Biden to deny entry visas to Raisi and his delegation.

 

 

Mullah Fattahi issued a Hijab warning on September 2 at 6 p.m. when confronted by two women in the county’s central district of Abhar, Zanjan Province. He warned the women to be careful what they wore! When the two women heard the Hijab warning, they collided with the cleric, according to state-run mojerasa.