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Iran Protests; Iran Rises up, Protests and Uprising in at Least 17 Provinces so Far

Iran Protests; Iran Rises up, Protests and Uprising in at Least 17 Provinces so Far
Demonstrations Continues for Second Day Running in Tehran and Other Iranian Cities

Written by Hamideh Taati on 13 January 2020.

THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS OF THE IRAN PROTESTS.

JANUARY 13, 2020:

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Protesters are seen bravely confronting a regime plainclothes agent telling him to say “Death to Khamenei,” the regime’s dictator.

January 13 – Sanandaj, western Iran – Locals are chanting:

“The stupid leader is a disgrace!” in a clear reference to the mullahs’ supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

January 13 – Sanandaj, western Iran – The regime’s oppressive security forces fire tear gas into a crowd. People are heard chanting:

“Down with Khamenei!” in a reference to the mullahs’ supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

MARYAM RAJAVI

AS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF RESISTANCE OF IRAN:

Commemorating victims of the Ukrainian airliner crash, at Ashraf 3

The people of Iran were still grieving over the loss of 1,500 martyrs in the November uprising when they suffered another harrowing grief. The criminal killing of 176 people in the disastrous strike at a passenger aircraft by the IRGC.

The fury and anger of their friends in universities and cities across the country confirmed that the people of Iran will neither forgive nor forget. They will not calm down, but will cry out: The people of Iran do not want Iran’s ruling dictatorship.

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

January 13 – Sanandaj, western Iran – Kurdistan University students holding a gathering and chanting:

“Death to the dictator!”

“The IRGC is a disgrace!”

IRAN PROTESTS: SHARIF UNIVERSITY STUDENT CALLS OFF SUPREME LEADER ALI KHAMENEI FOR LYING TO PUBLIC.

January 13, 2020—On the third day of their protests, Iranian demonstrators continued to chant anti-regime slogans. A large crowd of students at Tehran’s Sharif University were chanting “death to dictator” and “free imprisoned students.” One of the students who delivered a speech said, “We want transparency… I want to address Khamenei himself… why are you lying to your people?” Protests erupted in many cities on January 11, after Iranian officials admitted that security forces had mistakenly shot down a civilian airliner flying from Tehran to Ukraine.

January 13 – Sanandaj, western Iran – Kurdistan University students holding a gathering and chanting:

“Dictator, IRGC, you are ISIS to us!”

January 13 – Tehran, Iran – Sharif University students holding a protest rally.

“Khamenei, why do you lie?!”

More signs of Iranians courageously targeting the regime’s dictator Ali Khamenei.

January 13 – Tehran, Iran – Sharif University students holding a rally and chanting:

“Don’t call me a seditionist! You’re the sedition, you tyrant!”

More signs of Iranians specifically targeting the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

January 13 – Isfahan, central Iran – Isfahan Industrial University students marching and chanting:

“Down with the dictator!” “The leader is a disgrace!”

This criticism is in direct reference to the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

NCRI STATEMENT:

Iran: Torching pictures of eliminated Qods Force Chief Soleimani

Messages of Resistance’s leader simultaneous with nationwide uprising

On January 11 and 12, 2019, simultaneous with the uprising by the people and youth in Tehran and other Iranian cities, Resistance units posted banners and pictures of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), in Tehran (Mahallati expressway, and 4th and 6th bridges on Abuzar Street), Isfahan, Tabriz, Karaj, Yazd, Kerman, Babolsar, and Masjid Soleiman.

The messages said in part, “Victims of the Ukrainian airliner, another major crime of the ruling religious fascism, which the Iranian people will not forgive nor forget,” “Khamenei, Rouhani and IRGC commanders are the main culprits of the downing of the Ukrainian airliner.”

Simultaneously, defiant youth tore down and torched pictures of the eliminated terrorist Qods Force Commander, Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, Ahvaz, Kermanshah, Masjid Soleiman, Zanjan, Khorramabad, Islamshahr, Mahshahr, Pakdast and other Iranian cities.

MEK RESISTANCE UNITS INSTALL BANNERS OF MARYAM RAJAVI AND MASSOUD RAJAVIIN IRAN’S CITIES.

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

Breaking news: Iran Protests 2020 resumed in universities for the third day.

Students chanted “they killed our best, replaced them with mullahs,” “down with dictator”

Protests in Sharif and Alzahra Universities in Tehran

January 13 – Isfahan, central Iran – Isfahan Industrial University students rallying and chanting:

“Mullahs must get lost!”

January 13 – Tehran, Iran – Sharif University students protesting the downing of Ukraine Int’l Airlines flight PS752.

“They killed our elite and put mullahs in their place!”

Those killed in the crash include Sharif University students and alumni.

A woman wounded at Ostad Mo’ein Ave. in Tehran Sunday night.

Reports say that she was targeted and shot by plainclothes agents.

MARYAM RAJAVI THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE NCRI WROTE ON TWITTER:

On Khamenei’s orders suppressive forces attacked the protesters in Tehran, other cities with batons and teargas, opening fire on them. Some were arrested and a greater number arrested.

I urge UN Sec. Gen., Sec. Council, EU member states and HR orgs. To take urgent action for the release of those arrested and refer regime’s crimes to the Sec. Council and hold mullahs’ leaders to account.

FOX NEWS – MARYAM RAJAVI’S STATEMENT ON THE ANTI-REGIME PROTESTS IN IRAN

MARYAM RAJAVI: OVERTHROW THIS REGIME

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6121938174001#sp=show-clips

THE IRANIAN OPPOSITION SAYS “THE REGIME MUST GO.” WATCH STATEMENT TO FOX NEWS, MARYAM RAJAVI.

Jan. 12, 2020 – 2:13 – NCRI opposition leader tells Fox News Iran committed ‘a crime against humanity,’ hails protesters.

IRAN RISES UP, PROTESTS AND UPRISING IN AT LEAST 17 PROVINCES SO FAR

Statements of Maryam Rajavi the president-elect of the NCRI:

IRAN RISES UP

PROTESTS AND UPRISING IN AT LEAST 17 PROVINCES SO FAR

Mrs. Rajavi: Iran has risen up for liberation from religious fascism; the world must recognize the national demand for the regime’s overthrow.

Iran rises up. Hail to the brave people of Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Ahvaz, Shadegan, Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Karaj, Sari, Babol, Amol, Semnan, Shahroud, Tabriz, Qazvin, Zanjan, Shiraz, Urmia, Gorgan & Arak, who have heralded dawn of a Free Iran with chants of “death to Khamenei”

IRAN NEWS IN BRIEF, JANUARY 13, 2020

Iran Rises up Protests and Uprising in at Least 17 Provinces so Far.

Iran-Backed Militias Assassinate Iraqi Journalist Amid Nationwide Protests.

Iranian Convention in Support of Iranian Uprising and Opposition NCRI.

DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUES FOR SECOND DAY RUNNING. TEHRAN, KARAJ, ARAK AND DAMGHAN SCENES OF PROTESTS

https://twitter.com/Maryam_Rajavi/status/1216337001571606531

NCRI STATEMENT:

IRAN RISES UP PROTESTS AND UPRISING IN AT LEAST 17 PROVINCES SO FAR

Iran Protests – No. 6

Mrs. Rajavi: Iran has risen up for liberation from religious fascism; the world must recognize the national demand for the regime’s overthrow

The Iranian people’s protests against the religious tyranny ruling Iran has continued for a second consecutive day. It is quickly spreading and so far, in addition to Tehran, 16 other provinces have witnessed protests.

MARYAM RAJAVI: WITH THE UPRISINGS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ELIMINATION OF QASEM SOLEIMANI, THE STRATEGY OF EXPORTING FUNDAMENTALISM AND TERRORISM IS DISINTEGRATING.

https://twitter.com/Maryam_Rajavi/status/1216141278397784067

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Protesters set a large banner of Qassem Soleimani on fire.

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Monday, January 13, 2020, marks the 60th day since the beginning of the nationwide Iran protests.

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has identified 704 of the more than 1500 protesters killed by the regime so far.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has called on the United Nations to urgently send an international fact-finding mission to Iranian prisons to meet with the detainees.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UPRISING:

Number of uprising cities: 191

Number of martyrs: At least 1500

Number of injured: More than 4,000

Number of detainees: More than 12,000

 

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