Friday, March 29, 2024
HomeStatementsStatements: Iran ProtestIran’s Nationwide Uprising - Day 80

Iran’s Nationwide Uprising – Day 80

iran-uprising-04122022

Iran Protest-No. 171

NCRI logoNationwide uprisings and protest rallies in Tehran and different cities across the country

On Sunday, December 4, marking the 80th day of the uprising, protest rallies continued in Tehran and various cities. In Shahriyar, despite the heavy snowfall, people protested with the slogan “Death to the dictator”. In Yazdanshahr (southwestern Iran), the State Security Forces (SSF) shot a young man dead and injured another, after which furious people pelted the murderers’ car with stones.

On Sunday, people held nightly rallies in Tehran and various cities. In Tehranpars, despite the severe cold, a protest was held with the slogan ” Death to the principle of Velayat Faqih, (absolute rule of clergy) “. In Gharb township, people staged a protest chanting, “On the 5th, 6th, and 7th December, (marking nation’s Student Day) we shall be present in the streets,” and “We shall fight, with our utmost efforts, we shall take Iran back”. In Ekbatan, youths invited people to join them, chanting, “Dear conscientious neighbors, unite with us on December 5,” and “Bloodthirsty Khamenei! we shall bury you”. In North Majidiyeh, people protested chanting, “Death to the dictator (referring to Ali Khamenei) “.

Defiant youths staged nightly protest rallies in Bukan and Mahabad by lighting fires, and chanting, ” Pledge to our fallen comrades, we remain steadfast to the end” in Rasht. They set fire to a propaganda banner installed by the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence in Qazvin, a suppressive Basij base in Bandar Lengeh, a statue of Qasem Soleimani (former commander of Quds force) in Qeshm, and a large banner depicting Ruhollah Khomeini’s picture in Minab, Hormozgan province (south), and a state-installed billboard in Namin, Ardabil province (northwestern Iran).

In Sari, the University of Medical Sciences students protested with the slogan “Students will die but will never give in to humiliation,” and the Sina Hospital staff in Tabriz went on strike. Farmers of Isfahan organized a protest rally outside the Isfahan Water Department on Khajoo Bridge.

A large crowd attended the commemoration ceremony of martyr Mohammad Rasool Momeni-Zadeh in Rasht (North) and the funeral procession of martyr Ehsan Ghasemi-Nejad in Kangavar (West).

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

December 5, 2022