{"id":212725,"date":"2020-01-17T18:19:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=212725"},"modified":"2023-03-04T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T13:47:48","slug":"iran-protests-irans-regime-spirals-into-chaos-as-crises-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests-irans-regime-spirals-into-chaos-as-crises-escalate\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Protests: Iran\u2019s Regime Spirals Into Chaos as Crises Escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran protests have put the mullahs’ regime in a deadlock.<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Hamideh Taati<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a017 January 2020.<\/p>\n

THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS OF THE IRAN PROTESTS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

JANUARY 17, 2020:<\/h2>\n

NCRI STATEMENT:<\/h3>\n

Iran: Torching Qassem Soleimani\u2019s Posters Simultaneous With Khamenei\u2019s Speech in Tehran Friday Prayer Congregation<\/a><\/h3>\n

Today, January 17, 2020, on the same day when the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was speaking at Tehran\u2019s Friday prayer congregation, defiant youth tore up or torched posters of the eliminated terror master Qassem Soleimani in different parts of Tehran and in other Iranian cities, including Kerman, Zanjan, Iranshahr, Fassa, Lahijan, Tabriz, Zahedan and Masjed Soleiman. In his remarks today, Khamenei displayed his desperation and frustration in the face of the rage and defiance of rebellious youth toward the mullahs\u2019 regime and Soleimani by saying that a few hundred who insult Soleimani\u2019s pictures were not the people of Iran.\u00a0These activities occurred while the security and suppressive forces were on full alert in view of the Friday prayers in Tehran and regime-staged rallies in other cities.<\/p>\n


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https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1218292046294847489
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https:\/\/twitter.com\/DowlatNowrouzi\/status\/1218251975772516358<\/p>\n

MEK RESISTANCE UNITS CONGRATS QASSEM SOLEIMANI’S DEATH\u00a0AND INSTALL BANNERS OF IRANIAN OPPOSITION LEADER.<\/h3>\n

January 16, 2020\u2014MEK Resistance Units install banners of Maryam Rajavi and Massoud Rajavi. They also took to graffiti and wrote slogans against the Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and terrorist Qasem Soleimani. They also express their congrats about Qasem Soleimani’s death.<\/p>\n

MARYAM RAJAVI<\/a>\u00a0THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF\u00a0THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF RESISTANCE OF IRAN (NCRI)<\/a>\u00a0WROTE ON TWITTER:<\/h3>\n

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.
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https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1218194754690830337<\/p>\n

IRAN NEWS IN BRIEF, JANUARY 17, 2020<\/h3>\n

Iran Protests: People Stage Demonstration, Chant Against Regime’s Supreme Leader.<\/p>\n

Iran Regime\u2019s Terrorist Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison in U.S.<\/p>\n

Iran’s Regime Arrests People During Protests Over Downing of Ukrainian Airliner.<\/p>\n

UPDATE ON IRAN PROTESTS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

US Senator Martha McSally: I stand with the protesters in Iran as they risk everything for freedom from their oppressive regime.<\/strong>
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https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMcSallyAZ\/status\/1216888613880975360<\/p>\n

Amnesty International:\u00a0Sexual violence against women protesters by security personnel.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Amnesty International said Wednesday it had evidence that Iranian security forces used sexual violence against women in peaceful protests after Tehran admitted it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0report<\/a>, published on January 15, 2020, \u201cThe organization received shocking allegations of sexual violence against at least one woman arbitrarily arrested by plainclothes security agents and detained for several hours in a police station. According to an informed source, while in detention, the woman was taken to a room where she was questioned by a security official who forced her to perform oral sex on him and attempted to rape her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s security forces have once again carried out a reprehensible attack on the rights of Iranian people to peaceful expression and assembly and resorted to unlawful and brutal tactics,\u201d said Philip Luther, Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.
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https:\/\/twitter.com\/womenncri\/status\/1218150931306553344
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https:\/\/twitter.com\/womenncri\/status\/1218153601652027392<\/p>\n

IRAN\u2019S REGIME SPIRALS INTO CHAOS AS CRISES ESCALATE.<\/h3>\n

The root of the chaos:<\/strong><\/p>\n

To get to the root of all the ongoing chaos in the Iranian regime, one only needs to briefly look at the events in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n