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Iran News in Brief – January 5, 2023

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Two images from Javanrud, Kermanshah province, Iran: Every day, school students are laying flowers at a local shop that belonged to Borhan Elyasi, a slain protester (Left)- The aftermath after a street fight during night protests (Right)

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UPDATE: 10:00 PM CET

Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 112

Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran

Thursday, January 5, 2022 – 8 PM GMT+1

  • Days: 112
  • Protests: 282 cities
  • Fatalities: 750+ estimated deaths, 614 identified by MEK
  • Detentions: 30,000

Iran’s nationwide uprising made its 112th day on Thursday as the regime’s crackdown machine, including the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the paramilitary Basij units, State Security Forces (police), and plainclothes agents, backed by units from the Intelligence Ministry, have been arresting dozens of people in different cities, including Javanrud, Semirom, and Zahedan.

Various reports from across Iran indicate that regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has decided to step up his war against the Iranian people. This goes parallel to dozens of death sentences issued for people arrested for protesting and demonstrating the ruling mullahs. The entire regime is desperate to bring an end to the nationwide uprising while the Iranian people are determined to continue this unprecedented campaign of continuous protests against the regime in its entirety.

In Tehran, protesters attack an IRGC paramilitary Basij forces using Molotov cocktails.

In Karaj, west of Tehran, locals gathered at the cemetery where Hadis Najafi, a protester killed by the regime, is buried. Authorities had dispatched a large number of security units to prevent protest rallies.

In Isfahan, central Iran, protesters set fire to a poster of eliminated IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani.

In Yazd, central Iran, locals torched a large billboard of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

On Thursday reports from various cities across the country show that people have been holding ceremonies in memory of protesters killed by the mullahs’ regime. These gatherings were held in the cities of MahabadSanandaj, IzehKarajIlamAshkzezar in Yazd Province, and Kangavar where people were seen chanting anti-regime slogans and protesting the mullahs’ dictatorship.

A massive crowd turned out in Izeh, southwest Iran, on the 40th day of the murder of Hamed Salahshour by regime security forces. Protesters were seen chanting: “This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!” The protesters also held a large banner, reading, “Salute to the martyrs, Hamed, Kian, and their comrades,” and “We won’t submit to any regime.”

A similar gathering was reported in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, where locals gathered at the grave of Mohammad Shariati today marking his birthday and condemning the mullahs’ regime for their atrocities against the Iranian people.

Today was also the birthday of Mohsen Ghaysari, a protester killed by regime security forces. Locals in the city of Ilam, western Iran, gathered to voice their protests against the mullahs’ regime.

In Mahabad, a restive city in northwest Iran, locals rallied to mark the 40th day of the murder of Shuresh Niknam by regime security forces while emphasizing that “Martyrs don’t die!”


UPDATE: 8:00 AM CET

Iran’s People Continue Protests, Mark Soleimani’s Death by Burning His Posters

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Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 111th day on Wednesday with protesters across the country continuing various protest measures against the mullahs’ rule. Brave locals in different cities throughout Iran have also been marking the third anniversary of the killing of Qassem Soleimani, former head of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force, by burning billboards and posters of his image. This is parallel to the ongoing campaign of people voicing their hatred of the mullahs’ regime by torching images and anything symbolizing regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his entire apparatus of oppressive forces.

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Monthly Report December 2022 – Spreading False Narratives To Cover Up Crime

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During the 110 days since the Iranian people’s uprising, there have been many protestors’ deaths, which the clerical regime falsely attributed to accidents, suicides, underlying diseases, poisoning, etc.

In this final monthly report of 2022, we discuss the regime’s everyday use of spreading false narratives over the killing of female protestors. Naturally, more cases related to protesting youths and men are not in this report’s scope.

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Iran’s Protests, a Rebellion for Freedom – Day 111 of Revolution

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A rebellion for dignity, freedom, secularism and a republic of accountability is continuing in Iran. What the people of Iran want today is not reform but the demise of a brutal theocratic regime. They want regime change.

And today protests are showing us where we are staying today. Despite the regime’s repression, the people have not kept silent, and the essence of a revolution has become the impulse of the entire nation. Today all the people have come together to change their country’s path.

People have not forgotten the martyrs of the past protests. They chanted “Aban continues,” referring to the bloody November struggles in 2019.

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Zurich—January 3, 2023: Iranian Resistance Supporters Held an Exhibition in Support of the Iran Revolution

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Zurich, Switzerland—January 3, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a photo exhibition in memory of the martyrs of the nationwide Iranian Revolution. They also expressed their solidarity with the nationwide Iran protests.

Iranian Resistance supporters in Zurich called on the international community to support the nationwide Iranian protests and adopt a firm policy against the mullahs’ regime. Iranians demanded the expulsion of the murderous regime of the mullahs from the United Nations.

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