The Count:
- Days: 74
- Protests: 277 cities
- Fatalities: 660+ estimated deaths, 528 identified· Detentions: 30,000+
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Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 74th day on Monday through nationwide strikes by truckers and protest rallies at universities during the day and street rallies through the night.
Truck drivers and owners in many cities across the country led the protests by not moving their vehicles on Sunday and Monday in a significant escalation of strikes taking place in the almost 11 weeks since the current uprising began. More truck drivers and owners are joining the movement with each passing day.
Truckers in many cities, including Isfahan, Shiraz, Kashan, Bandar Abbas, Qazvin, Shahreza, Salafchegan, and Kermanshah refrained from moving goods in support of the ongoing protests, and various sit-ins and strikes by industrial workers. The strike by truckers has the potential to cripple the economy. Fearful of the political, social, and economic impact of the strike, which will lead to more shortages in an already staggering economy, the regime has already started promising drivers extra fuel subsidies to lure them back to work.
College and high school students in different cities have continued their rallies and gatherings, protesting the regime’s crackdown against the entire society, and especially their fellow classmates.
At nights protesters have been using Molotov cocktails in more frequent attacks targeting the regime’s security forces and centers, especially sites of the Basij, a paramilitary force affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC); centers used by the mullahs to promote the regime’s ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism; offices of local representatives of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei; local offices of members of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) in various cities and towns; and symbols and posters of regime propaganda.
Resistance
In an opinion piece in the New York Post today, NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi wrote: “The Iranian people should not be alone at such a defining moment. It is time for the West to shun the appeasement of the theocracy and support the democratic revolution by recognizing the resistance’s right to defend itself against the brutality of the regime by any means possible.”
