The Count:
- Days: 157
- Protests: 282 cities
- Fatalities: 750+ estimated deaths, 647 identified
- Detentions: 30,000
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Iran’s nationwide uprising marked its 157th day, today, as people in different Iranian cities continued to express their opposition to the regime and calling for its overthrow, and protesting their terrible living conditions.
Today, people in the capital’s Jannat Abad district chanted: “Death to the dictator!”
Rretirees and pensioners in the cities of Kermanshah, Isfahan, Ahvaz, Shushtar, Rasht, Kerman, Bandar Abbas, and Shush rallied and protested low pensions, poor insurance plans, and sought adjustments based on skyrocketing prices and increasing inflation.
In Tehran, family members of death row inmates rallied again today outside the regime’s judiciary building, protesting the death sentences and demanding answers from regime officials. There have been many such rallies held by family members of inmates, who travel from across the country to hold these gatherings in Tehran, where children have been seen holding placards reading: “Don’t execute my dad!”
Bakery owners in the country’s capital protested on Sunday regarding the regime officials’ refusal to respond to their outstanding demands as living conditions continue to deteriorate.
In Yasuj, southwest Iran, municipality workers rallied outside the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmed Province governor’s office and demanded their pay checks that have been delayed for the past eight months.
On Sunday, workers of a local train manufacturing company in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, voiced their anger over not receiving their pay checks for the past 18 months.
Local teachers in Tabriz, northwest Iran, were also protesting regime officials’ refusal to respond to their outstanding demands regarding their extremely poor living conditions.
Today in Yazd, central Iran, workers of the local Yazdbaf textile company, the largest of its kind in the Middle East, protested against their low/delayed pay checks and poor living conditions.
Following protests and demonstrations yesterday and last night by thousands of courageous Baluchis in different cities of Sistan and Baluchistan Province in southeast Iran who took to the streets in a continuation of anti-regime protests and chanted: “Death to the oppressor! Be it the Shah or [Khamenei]!”
Also the early hours of Saturday morning, protests continued in more than 10 districts of Tehran and 20 cities across Iran on the 40th day since two young protesters Mohammad Hosseini and Mohammad Mahdi Karami, were hanged.
In Tehran, locals in Apadana and Narmak district people were chanting: “Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!” Also, the slogans of “Death to Khamenei” and “Death to the dictator” echoed from the buildings in different areas, including Bagheri town, Niavaran neighborhood and Narmak.
Courageous youths in Mohammad Shahr Karaj west of Tehran targeted the Basij base of Homayun Villa by throwing cocktails.
In Mahabad, capital of Mahabad County, West Azerbaijan Province, north-western Iran, the defiant youth lit a fire in the street and staged a night demonstration and chanted the slogans “Death to the dictator” and “Neither Mullah nor Shah, we want democracy”.
Last night, in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, defiant youth torched a base of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij units.
Following protests and acts of defiance in many Iranian cities, the NCRI President elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, saluted “the heroic people of Iran” who took to the streets “with ever-greater determination for the regime’s overthrow, chanting ‘freedom’ and ‘death to Khamenei.’”
Yesterday and today, the streets of Munich were awash with a sea of passionate and enthusiastic supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), as they held colorful and inspiring rallies concurrent with the Munich Security Conference, to voice their unwavering support for the nationwide Iran uprising, with fervent chants of “Death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or the Leader (Khamenei)“, which reverberated through the city streets.
They also denounced the decision to invite the son of the deposed and detested dictator to the conference, decrying it as a grave insult to the millions of Iranians who yearn for freedom, democracy, and human rights.