The Count:
- Days: 30th day of Nationwide Uprising
- Protests: 191 cities
- Fatalities: 400+ estimated deaths, 206 identified
- Detentions: 20,000+
Latest
The regime has enforced an almost total mobile internet blackout since Saturday morning in fear of large demonstrations among citizens of the Azari-speaking Iranians in the northwest who are outraged by regime violence against schoolgirls in Ardabil. Anger in the city of Ardabil and across Iran is palpable as the people of Ardabil are out in force raging against the brutal beatings of their children by regime security forces and some school headmasters in the service of the regime. Young protesters are blockading streets, taking down regime symbols, and challenging authorities, and forcing them to flee in some locations.
Meanwhile, students across Tehran and other cities, including in Tehran University, Melli, Shariati, Tarbiat Modares, Tehran Science and Technology, Punak Azad, Isfahan Fine Arts, Kermanshah and Rasht Azad universities, staged demonstrations against faculty beholden to the regime and called for regime downfall. A general strike is holding in many regions in Kurdistan province.
Uprising Updates
- Regime plainclothes thugs (IRGC and Basij and intelligence agents) kidnap a female protester and have to pull guns and automatic rifles on bystanders who intervene.
- Tehran – “Death to [Khamenei] for these years of crimes,” students of Shariati Technical University chant.
- Tehran – “Imprisoned students must be freed,” students at Arts College affiliated with the Soore University chant.
- Ardabil – “Death to the dictator,” citizens chant. Drivers honk horns in support of #IranProtests.
- Rasht – Protesters on the streets chanting slogans against the regime.
- Tabriz – Military helicopters continuously flying over Tabriz to control demonstrations.
- Karaj – Flash protests against the regime are ongoing.
- Karaj – Large poster of Qassem Soleimani is torn down in broad daylight and heavy traffic.
- Isfahan – “Death to [Khamenei] for these years of crimes,” citizens chant in Shahinshar.
- Mashhad – Protesters out chanting against the regime.
- Gohardasht – Young protesters challenge regime security forces with “Death to dictator” who shoot directly at demonstrators.
Resistance
Maryam Rajavi has again backed the ongoing uprising of Iran’s young generation in Iran and called on all to rise up to establish a free and democratic republic in Iran.
Latest
One of the amazing hallmarks of current protests is the powerful presence of high school and university students. Today as protests kick-off in Iran, Sanandaj female students, and also in Marivan, are out in the streets protesting against the regime. The regime has tried to brutally suppress school protests only to face backlash from students and parents alike as the uprising pins the general populace against the entirety of the system of theocratic dictatorship of Ali Khamenei.
Reports emerging from Ardabil in the north indicate another atrocity carried out by the regime’s security forces against unarmed children. A social media post in Telegram from a health worker states: “The school principal forced all pupils at the school to go out on a pro-government demonstration against the recent protests without the consent of their parents or any prior notification. When the students realized what this was about, they began to shout slogans against the regime and were attacked by the school principal. The students were all girls of below 16 years old. After this the suppressive forces arrived on the scene and attacked the students with truncheons and tear gas. I am a health worker and at around 11 AM they put out an alert in the hospital and many suppressive forces came to the hospital and threw everyone out except one doctor and several nurses. They brought in 21 female students who were mostly below 16 years old…”
Following the disturbing news of such savagery on the part of regime security forces, the people of Ardabil are out in the streets shouting slogans against the regime and fending off regime thugs.
Uprising Updates
- Shahin Shahr, Isfahan – Protesters chanting: “Death to Khamenei!” referring to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
- Rasht – Students of Islamic Azad University—Rasht Branch took to the streets to protest against the mullahs’ regime.
- Hamedan – Locals are in the streets in large numbers and continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 30th day of the uprising.
