The Count:
- Days: 41st day
- Protests: 199 cities
- Fatalities: 400+ estimated deaths, 260 identified
- Detentions: 20,000+
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Today proved to be a fierce day of resistance all over Iran. Just until 5 pm local time in Tehran, at least 58 university campuses, 30 areas in the capital, and 19 other major cities were revolting against the regime and its oppressive rule, with demonstrators targeting Ali Khamenei and the foundations of the religious dictatorship in stark language.
As the nationwide uprising in Iran rages on, the 40th day of Mahsa Amini’s death in custody started before noon Wednesday with a huge gathering at her grave in Saqqez. The 40th day has special significance in Iran, and in Mahsa Amini’s case, it carries strong political overtones as the occasion turned into a huge and iconic public mourning.
Huge crowds, estimated by some to be over 100,000 mourners and protesters, lined the road to Aichi cemeterydespite the authorities blocking all roads and routes to prevent such a gathering. Maryam Rajavi wrote on her Twitter account, “Today, one can hear the cries of “Death to Khamenei” throughout Iran; from Aichi cemetery in #Saqqezwhere #MahsaAmini is buried to various districts across Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan & Kerman.”
The massive crowd of Iranians at Aichi cemetery chanted, “Death to dictator,” “We are all Mahsa, Fight and we will fight back,” “Death to Khamenei,” and “This year is a year of sacrifice. Seyyed Ali (Khamenei) will be overthrown,” “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom,” “From Kurdistan to Tehran, I sacrifice my life for Iran,” and “Imprisoned teachers must be freed.” The protests continued throughout the day in the city of Saqqez.
It has become clear that the authorities and security forces cannot control the uprising and the people’s rage against the regime of Ali Khamenei, despite the extreme suppressive measures they have undertaken. Tehran today rose in a stark challenge to the regime’s authority over the capital as most streets are up in protest and barricades are going up to fend off security forces.
Students in major universities, including Khajeh Nasir of Tehran, Sharif of Tehran, Tehran Dentistry, Najaf Abad University, Tabriz, Tehran Campus Azad, Amir Kabir of Tehran, Al-Zahra of Tehran, and Mashhad, Sepehr of Isfahan, Isfahan Girls Technical College, Chamran of Ahvaz, Azad Kerman, Azad in Arak, Hamedan, and Kerman, Ferdowsi Engineering Faculty of Mashhad, Azad Mashhad, Bu-Ali Sina of Hamedan, Industrial of Quchan, Azad in Boroujard, Rasam of Karaj, Sadrai and Zand in Shiraz, Rasam Karaj, Yazd, staged sit-ins and demonstrations. Some student demonstrations flowed into the streets of Tehran for example in Kargar street, where the security forces opened fire on the students with pellet guns.
In Tehran, people protested in different districts, including Naziabad, Behesht Square, Nizam Pezeshki, Amir Abad, Hashemi, and Lalezar, chanting, “Death to the dictator” and “Death to Khamenei.” People gathered on Hashemi Street in Tehran to demonstrate. Protests, anti-regime chants erupted in Qolhak Metro station, Saltanat Abad, north of Tehran, Saadat Abad, Sadeghieh, Yusefabad, and Geisha districts, Sohrevardi Street, with protesters setting garbage bins on fire and chanting “death to Khamenei.” Regime dispatched herds of Security forces to Amirabad in Tehran. At the same time, people in various cities, including Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, and Karaj, Qazvin, Shahriar, Lahijan, Tabriz, Babol, Mehrshahr in Karaj, west of Tehran, staged protests. Shop owners in Birjand, northeast Iran. In several cities, protesters were chanting “With or without Hijab, onwards toward revolution. Beware of the day we pick up arms.”
Strikes continued in many cities, including Kamyaran, Marivan, Mahabad, Sanandaj, Bukan, Javanroud, Sanadaj, Gilangharb, Shariati Kerman, Isfahan, Dehgolan, Bushehr, Lalezar and Iranshahr in Tehran.
In Tehran’s Hemmat Expressway, defiant youth hung an effigy of Khamenei from an overpass. Tehran stock exchange shut down in solidarity with the protesters.
Uprising Updates
- Tehran– Hafez Street Protesters chanting: “Mullahs must get lost!”
- Tehran– Students chanting “How much did they pay you to put a truncheon in your hands?”
- Tehran, Amirabad district – regime security forces fired tear gasinto a girls-only high school, where dozens of students succumbed the effects of the gas.
- Tehran, Amirabad district– Protesters are seen torching trash canisters and chanting: “Death to [Khamenei] for all these years of crimes!”
- Tehran, Amirabad district– Authorities seen opening fire on protesters near the Medical Apparatus Organization.
- Tehran– Security forces are attacking protesters as they continue the nationwide protests against the regime on the 41st day of the uprising.
- Tehran– Even in shopping malls the people are not giving the regime breathing space. Protesters in Nour Mall of Valiasr St. chanting against the mullahs’ regime.
- Najafabad, Isfahan Province – People pulled down a billboard of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini and current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
- Mashhad– Students of Sajjad University tore down large images of regime founder Khomeini and Ali Khamenei.
- Gorgan, northeast Iran – Protesters torched an IRGC paramilitary Basij base.
- Shahriar, west of Tehran – Protesters chanting: “Death to the dictator!”
- Tehran– Protesters chanting: “Islamic Republic, we don’t want, we don’t want,” “Death to the dictator!” “Death to the IRGC!” “Death to the Basij!”
- Tehran– Felestine Street Protesters chanting: “Death to the dictator!”
