The Count:
- Days: 48thday
- Protests: 213 cities
- Fatalities: 480+ estimated deaths, 324 identified
- Detentions: 25,000+
Latest
There is no respite in the Iran uprising as demonstrations continue in various cities and organized resistance units call for more rallies and actions against the regime in the coming days.
The Tehranpars, Ekbatan, Jannat Abad, and Saadat Abad districts of the capital Tehran were alight with protests and chants against the regime and its violent and brutal security forces Tuesday night as people chanted slogans from balconies and rooftops, and others staged protest rallies in barricaded streets.
Despite the ongoing, resilient, and unprecedented uprising against the regime, its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday repeated his now infamous accusations that foreign nations are fomenting the protests across Iran, reminiscent of the former Shah’s last days. Khamenei said that he has no problem with the youths who are on streets “as they are our own kids! The presence of some teenagers and young people in streets is the surface of the issue. These are our own children, and we have no argument with them as they entered the field due to some excitements…, but the important ones are the main directors who entered with a plan.”
It is notable that Khamenei’s security forces have so far have killed at least 40 teenagers and younger children on his direct orders for a harsh response.
Ignoring harsh warnings by the regime’s IRGC brass who bloviated on Saturday and proclaimed the uprising’s end, students in universities and high schools, and in streets of numerous cities across Iran made clear what they think of the regime’s loyalists and brutal enforcers during the past few days with chants of, “This is the year of blood, Syed Ali [Khamenei] will fall”, “Death to dictator, Death to Khamenei, and Mullahs must get lost.” No backing down could be discerned even as video posts of continued brutal and inhuman beatings and killings by the security forces began to circulate on social media platforms.
Students at scores of universities and high schools engaged in demonstrations, sit-ins, and protest actions against the regime today. Strikes also continued in many cities in Kurdistan province and in the petrochemical sector.
The regime’s increasing violence against university and high school students has entrenched anti-regime sentiments among the young population and their families, encompassing a broad population of Iran. The regime cannot survive the resulting revolution that is ongoing.
Multiple reports from inside Iran and sightings in Lebanon and Iraq indicate the regime has asked its mercenaries in proxy groups in the region to flock to its aid in suppressing the Iranian nation as its own forces begin to fray and vacillate in the face of fierce resistance by brave and empty-handed women and youth in the streets of Iran’s cities.
A regime sponsored poll published in the ultra-conservative Hamshahri aimed at diminishing the widespread rejection of the regime, inadvertently admitted a washed-down figure of 55% of the population that supports the uprising. A regime loyalist, Mohammad Mehdi Mahdavi, sounded the alarm in his Telegram channel about the fraying of regime forces and said over 25% of the detained protesters have formerly been members of the Basij, some 6% are children of IRGC commanders, and more than 5% are from families whose members are considered martyrs of the regime.
Uprising Updates
- Tehran– Large banner on a major thoroughfare reads: “Fight us and we will fight you back.”
- Tehran, Iran – High school students of Golestan district protesting and chanting: “This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
- Nowshahr, northern Iran – Protestersgathered to mark the 40th day of Hananeh Kia’s murder by the regime’s oppressive security forces. They’re chanting: “This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
- Zahedan, southeast Iran – Protesters in Baluchistan chanting in national unity against the regime: “Kurds! Baluchis! Azaris! Freedom and equality!”
- Tehran– After a huge protest at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar authorities deployed the military to the area in a vain effort to prevent future protests.
- Tabriz, northwest Iran – Students of Madani University chanting: “With or without the hijab, we’re heading for a revolution!”
