May 15 2023

Retirees and pensioners of Iran’s different industries took to the streets in several cities on Sunday voicing their demands of the mullahs’ regime, leading the days’ anti-regime rallies across the country. People of several strata are holding gatherings, protesting, and launching strikes in response to the regime’s destructive economic policies that are making it nearly impossible to make ends meet. These brave protests are also continuing in the face of the regime’s recent surge in executions, with at least 81 inmates sent to the gallows since April 21.

People throughout Iran continue to specifically hold the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij units, alongside other security units that are on the ground suppressing the peaceful demonstrators.

Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 282 cities. Over 750 people have been killed and more than 30,000 are arrested by the regime’s forces, according to sources of Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 675 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

Brave youths attacked an IRGC paramilitary Basij base in the city of Fuman in Gilan Province, northern Iran, on Sunday night in response to the regime’s brutal executions under Khamenei’s direct orders. This includes six executions in the city of Kerman in south-central Iran on Saturday alone.

In the city of Isfahan in central Iran that families were gathering outside the city’s Dastgerd Prison late Sunday night as reports indicated regime authorities were preparing to execute three inmates at early Monday morning local time. Family members were gathering near the vicinity of this prison in an attempt to protest and prevent these executions.

Activists were reporting that regime security forces resorted to firing tear gas to disperse the gathering family members and other locals heading to the prison from across the city. Protesters began chanting slogans, including: “Down with the dictator!” and “This is the last message: another execution and there will be another uprising!” The security forces continued their attacks against ordinary people well into the night.

There are reports that regime authorities executed two inmates in Khorramabad Central Prison in Lorestan Province, western Iran, on Monday. The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reports that the names of the two victims are Mohammad Paydar and Peyman Akbari Birgani, the latter being a young man from the city of Shushtar in southwest Iran.

Reports from Tehran indicate that families of death row inmates rallied outside the regime’s judiciary on Monday demanding a halt to the regime’s brutal execution of their loved ones. Children were at the rally holding signs reading: “Don’t execute my father!” and other were holding placards reading: “No to executions!”

Retirees of the regime’s telecom industry began a new wave of protests on Monday as these pensioners were seen holding gatherings and protesting the regime’s policies in the cities of Bojnurd, Rasht, Isfahan, Ahvaz, Shahrekord, Mashhad, and Khorramabad in western Iran.

This continues previous gatherings held during the past few weeks and months in Tehran and other cities across the country.

In the past few years, retirees across Iran have been protesting to their deteriorating living conditions, especially as the government refuses to adjust their pensions based on the inflation rate and fluctuations in the price of the rial, Iran’s national currency.

Locals in the Ekbatan and Shahrak-e Bagheri districts of the capital Tehran began chanting anti-regime slogans on Sunday night, including:
“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with Khamenei!”

Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the cities of Shush, Haft Tappeh, and Karkheh in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, were holding a gathering on Sunday demanding their rights while protesting their low pensions. Similar rallies were reported in the cities of Kermanshah, Kerman, Ahvaz, Shiraz, Karaj, Shushtar, Arak, and Isfahan.

Pensioners and retirees are among the worst-hit segments of Iran’s society. They depend on government stipends to make ends meet, but the regime has refused to increase their pensions in correspondence with growing inflation and the depreciation of the national currency.

The government has long provided many hollow promises of increasing pensions. It was also supposed to settle unpaid pensions remaining from previous years. So far, it has yet to deliver on both demands.

Interestingly, the regime’s own media reported that The Social Security Investment Company (SHASTA), the financial institution that is supposed to fund retirees, has seen a significant increase in its profits in the past years. However, these profits have yet to materialize in the lives of pensioners and retirees.

Incoming reports on Sunday showed that regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting the all-girls Alizadeh High School in the Nayser district of Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan in western Iran. A number of the students have been poisoned and transferred to medical centers to receive urgently needed treatment.

In other reports, eight labor activists who work at various oil, gas, and petrochemical sites in the South Pars area in southern Iran were arrested on Sunday under the charges of leading the recent strike in the South Pars industrial sites. These labor activists have been arrested while workers have been demanding higher salaries as the country’s inflation continues to rise and prices of basic goods and services are skyrocketing.

The regime’s police chief in Khash, a city in the restive Sistan & Baluchestan Province in southeast Iran, reported that Captain Yaser Abduli, the deputy police intelligence chief in this city, was killed on Sunday in a gun battle with unidentified armed men, according to the regime’s official IRNA news agency.

It is worth noting that two weeks ago Major Alireza Shahraki, police chief in the city of Saravan, also in Sistan & Baluchestan Province, was killed in an armed conflict.

The protests in Iran began following the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the city of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, who traveled to Tehran with her family, was arrested on Tuesday, September 13, at the entry of Haqqani Highway by the regime’s so-called “Guidance Patrol” and transferred to the “Moral Security” agency.

She was brutally beaten by the morality police and died of her wounds in a Tehran hospital on September 16. The event triggered protests that quickly spread across Iran and rekindled the people’s desire to overthrow the regime.

Source » mojahedin

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