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Day 59 of Iran Protests: Anti-Regime Protests in Several Iranian Cities

Iran Protests, January 2020: Anti-Regime Protests in Tehran and Several Iranian Cities

Written by Hamideh Taati on 12 January 2020.

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WITH THE LATEST NEWS OF THE IRAN PROTESTS.

JANUARY 12, 2020:

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

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

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.

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

Iran Protests: U.S. Lawmakers Support Nationwide Protests by Iranian People

As the protests by the Iranian people against the regime continue and spread across the country, United States lawmakers voice support for the Iranian people.

POSTER OF QASSEM SOLEIMANI TORN DOWN BY BRAVE IRANIAN WOMEN.

Brave Iranian women tear down poster of Qaasem Soleimani in the City of Qods, outside Tehran, on January 12, 2020.

Freedom Square, Iran Protesters take it to the streets of Tehran. Protesters chant: “Cannons, tanks, and firecrackers, Mullahs must get lost.”

Iran Protests continues to Freedom street in Tehran.

Protesters chant: “Down with the Dictator”.

January 12 – Shiraz, south-central Iran, Moali’Abad district

Crowd mocking the regime’s dictator: “This is the last month; Seyed Ali (Khamenei), it’s time to go!”

January 12 – Tabriz, northwest Iran – Crowd chanting, “We don’t want an Islamic republic!”

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

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.

MR. SHAHIN GHOBADI, SPOKESMAN PEOPLE’S MOJAHEDIN ORGANIZATION OF IRAN (PMOI/MEK), SAID ABOUT THE SECOND DAY OF DEMONSTRATIONS BY THE IRANIAN PEOPLE:

The protest by thousands of Iranians in Tehran and a number of other cities last night and today, in which people were chanting slogans like ‘Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, resign, resign,’ makes it palpably clear that the Iranian people demand the mullahs’ overthrow.

The protesters openly blamed and challenged the IRGC, the regime’s power base for decades. This marks vividly indicated a new phase of more defiance in Iran as the regime has become much weaker. In chanting against the Shah’s regime and the current religious fascism, the protesters showed that they reject despotism in any shape and form and democracy is the only way forward.

The protests undercut the regime’s propaganda subsequent to the termination of Qassem Soleimani. Not only the protesters tore down his posters in Tehran and elsewhere, they also chanted “Soleimani is a murderer, so is his leader (Ali Khamenei).” They condemned the shooting down of the Ukrainian airliner and lashed out at the regime for lying about it.

In the aftermath of the November anti-regime protests in 191 cities throughout Iran in which the regime killed more than 1,500 protesters, wounded 4,000 and arrested 12,000, the tide has turned against the regime.

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

January 12 – Amol, northern Iran – Crowd chanting:

“We don’t want an Islamic republic!”

More proof that the Iranian people seek the complete overthrow of the mullahs’ regime.

NCRI STATEMENT:

Demonstrations Continues for Second Day Running. Tehran, Karaj, Arak and Damghan Scenes of Protests

Iran Protests – No. 5

Maryam Rajavi: Demonstrations by enraged citizens, students reflect public’s demand for the regime’s overthrow

This afternoon, Sunday, January 12, demonstrations and protests by people and students continued for the second day running in several Iranian cities.

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

January 12 – Tabriz, northwest Iran – Crowd is chanting: “Be afraid! Be afraid! Because we’re all together!” in a clear warning to the mullahs regime.

January 12 – Arak, Iran – Crowd is chanting: “Death to the dictator!” in reference to the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

January 12 – Mashhad, northeast Iran – Crowd is chanting: “Mullahs must get lost!”

January 12 – Yazd, central Iran – Crowd chanting:

“Commander in chief, resign, resign!” in a direct reference to the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.”

PROTESTERS IN TEHRAN CHANT “DEATH TO DICTATOR” AND CALL FOR REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN.

January 12, 2020—Protests that began in Tehran’s universities have spread to other parts of the city. A large crowd has gathered in the city’s iconic Azadi Square and are chanting anti-regime slogans. The protesters were calling for regime change, shouting “The stupid leader is our disgrace” and “Death to the dictator,” both references to Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Iranian regime.

 

IRAN PROTESTS: DEMONSTRATORS IN TEHRAN CALL FOR REGIME CHANGE, TELL MULLAHS TO GET LOST.

January 12, 2020—Protests that began in Tehran’s universities have spread to other parts of the city. A large crowd has gathered in the city’s iconic Azadi Square and are chanting anti-regime slogans. The protesters were calling for regime change, shouting “The stupid leader is our disgrace” and “Mullahs must get lost.”

January 12 – Kermanshah, western Iran – Crowd chanting:

“Death to the dictator!” in a direct reference to the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.”

January 12 – Babol, northern Iran – Crowd chanting:

“Shame on you! Shame on you!”

Iranians are holding anti-regime protests following the IRGC’s downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane near Tehran.

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Azadi (Freedom) Square:

“Mullahs must get lost!” the crowd is chanting in yet another sign of the Iranian people seeking to end the mullahs’ regime in its entirety.

January 12 – Karaj, west of Tehran, Iran – College students holding a gathering and chanting:

“No fear! We’re all together!”

The Iranian people are standing up to the regime’s oppressive measures.

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

Hail to Iranian students who have taken to the streets of Tehran, Isfahan, Damghan, and other cities for a second day Iran Protests.

Chanting, “Commander-in-chief of Armed Forces, resign, resign,” “The IRGC commits crimes & the leader supports them!” “College students are aware, and sick & tired of Seyed Ali (Khamenei),” “Bassij responsible for the murder of people,” they say: “We don’t want the rule of IRGC.”

Student protesters echo the desire of the general public in Iran to overthrow the mullahs’ religious dictatorship and establish democracy and popular sovereignty.

The time has come for the world community to acknowledge this truth that the ruling religious fascism does not represent the people of Iran and to recognize the Iranian people’s desire for the downfall of the clerical regime.

https://twitter.com/Maryam_Rajavi/status/1216337007464656896

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Allame Tabataba’i University students chanting:

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

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Students of Iran National (Beheshti) University:

“Basijis, IRGC, you are our ISIS!”

Basij is a paramilitary wing of the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Both are heavily involved in the crackdown of protests.

NCRI STATEMENT:

Students Stage Protests in Tehran, Isfahan

Iran Protests – No. 4

“Students are aware, despise Khamenei,” “Death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or the Leader”

Despite the state of full alert and the stationing of the repressive forces across the country, this afternoon, university students and large groups of people in Tehran and other cities have resumed their demonstrations.

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:

IRAN PROTESTS: STUDENTS OF ISFAHAN INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY CHANT ANTI-REGIME SLOGANS.

January 12, 2020—Students at Isfahan’s Industrial University gathered to protest the downing of a Ukrainian airliner in Tehran. The students were chanting, “The IRGC commits crimes, the leader supports it.” Here too, the students made it clear that they are fed up with the religious fascism ruling their country. “They’ve used Islam to ruin the people’s lives,” the protesters were chanting. Protests began on Saturday after Iranian officials admitted to having shot down the passenger plane on Wednesday. The incident resulted in the death of all 176 passengers.

BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY STUDENTS CALL FOR REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN, CHANT SLOGANS AGAINST ALI KHAMENEI.

January 11, 2020—Demonstrators in Isfahan joined their voices to those of protesters in Tehran. Protests erupted after the Iranian regime announced that it had shot down a civilian airliner carrying 176 passengers. The protesters were chanting, “So many years of crime, down with the mullahs’ rule.” The protesters were also chanting, “I will kill he who killed my brother.”

 

STUDENTS OF TEHRAN’S BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY CHANT SLOGANS AGAINST IRANIAN REGIME AND SECURITY FORCES.

January 12, 2020—During the second day against the Iranian regime’s downing a Ukrainian passenger airliner, Students of Beheshti University (National University) chanted slogans against the security forces. “Fear us. We are all together,” the protesters chanted. They also shouted, “Cannons, tanks and teargas are no longer effective.” On the previous day, security forces had cracked down on protesters and tried to disperse them by firing tear gas at the crowd.

STUDENTS OF KARAJ’S PARDIS UNIVERSITY PROTEST THE IRANIAN REGIME’S DOWNING OF CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT.

January 12, 2020—At Karaj’s Pardis University, students gathered and mourned the death of the victims of the airplane crash. The students challenged the Iranian regime’s repressive forces, chanting, “Be afraid. We are all together.” The protesters also called on other students to support them.

 

 

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Students of Iran National (Beheshti) University chanting:

“College students are aware, and sick & tired of Seyed Ali,” in direct reference to the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.”

January 12 – Isfahan, central Iran – Industrial University students chanting:

“The IRGC commits crimes & the leader supports them!” in a direct protest to the regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei.”

IRAN PROTESTS: STUDENTS OF BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY BLAME REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS FOR DOWNING CIVILIAN PLANE.

January 12, 2020—On the second day of protests by students of Tehran’s universities, demonstrators at the Beheshti University (National University) chanted slogans against the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) for its role in downing a Ukrainian passenger airliner and killing 176 civilians.

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Students of Iran National (Beheshti) University holding a rally and chanting:

“Cannons, tanks, tear gas are no longer effective!”

“Incompetent IRGC is killing the nation!”

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Students of Iran National University holding a rally and chanting:

“The incompetent IRGC is murdering the people!”

Jan 12 – Tehran, Iran – Allame Tabatabaie University:

First report of a gathering today. College students & others across the country have called for rallies protesting the IRGC’s downing of Ukraine Int’l Airlines flight #PS752 that killed all 176 on-board.

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Allameh Tabataba’i University, Students chanting:

“State TV/radio are a disgrace!” in reference to the regime’s use of state outlets to broadcast fake news & pro-regime propaganda.

January 12 – Tehran, Iran – Sadeghiyeh Square:

Regime authorities dispatching a large number of security units in fear of massive 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

Saturday, January 11, 2020 – A convention was held in Los Angeles, California, U.S., in support of the Iranian people’s uprising. In a video message to this convention, Maryam Rajavi said: The countdown for the clerical regime has begun. With the advent of the third decade of the 21st Century, the world is looking with hope at the uprising in Iran and the bright prospects of a free and democratic Iran. The regime had not had anyone like terror master Qasem Soleimani over the past 40 years. Single-handedly, he embodied the depravity and ruthlessness of the mullahs’ regime. All of the regime’s internal factions were united in supporting him.

ANTI-REGIME PROTESTS IN SEVERAL IRANIAN CITIES

Simultaneous with Tehran, demonstrations in protest against the downing of the Ukrainian commercial airliner by the IRGC have spread to other cities, including Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Sanandaj, Babol and Lahijan (northern Iran).

In Tehran, the protesters near Hafez Bridge were chanting, “Death to the oppressor, whether the Shah or the Leader (Khamenei).”

January 11, Tehran:

Thousands of people gathered in Hafez Street and areas around it, chanting, “Down with the dictator,” “Down with the liars,” “Have no fear, we are all together,” Down with this murderous regime,”

 

HOW IRAN SHOT DOWN UKRAINIAN PLANE?

Iran, January 11, 2020—Iran’s regime has been forced to acknowledge the fact that the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was targeted by its military units, killing all 176 passengers and crew. This delayed development follows a wave of protests and revelations by Iranians inside the country, and intelligence being unveiled by the United States and confirmations by various other countries.

 

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Sunday, January 12, 2020, marks the 59th 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

 

Read more: Day 58 of the Iran Protests for Regime Change