{"id":237559,"date":"2021-04-09T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237559"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:59:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:59:42","slug":"protests-continue-to-expand-in-iran-exposing-regimes-anxiety-over-unresolved-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/protests-continue-to-expand-in-iran-exposing-regimes-anxiety-over-unresolved-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests Continue To Expand In Iran, Exposing Regime\u2019s Anxiety Over Unresolved Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last Sunday, protests were recorded as taking place in at least 20 Iranian cities as the country\u2019s roughly 18 million pensioners<\/a> continued their activities over a declining quality of life and increasing scarcity of access to various food staples. Several protests have taken place on a similar scale since the beginning of this year, and it appears as if the pensioners\u2019 activism is being accompanied by growing numbers of protests by younger Iranians, many of which express a broader political agenda and a persistent desire for regime change.<\/p>\n

Pensioners have endorsed this message to some degree while remaining focused on the immediate goal of securing the means to their short-term survival at a time when more than 60 percent of the Iranian population, according to the regime itself, are living under the poverty line. In their most recent protests, many elderly activists joined their younger compatriots in urging a general boycott of the political process that regime authorities are attempting to promote in advance of their sham presidential election in June.<\/p>\n

The regime\u2019s sham parliamentary elections<\/a> in February 2020, had the lowest level of voter turnout in the regime\u2019s history. That same outcome was also driven by a longstanding electoral boycott movement, led by the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a>, which urged the general population to deny legitimacy to the clerical system and \u201cvote for regime change.\u201d<\/p>\n

This message has lately begun appearing in the forms of graffiti and banners in prominent locations throughout Iran, often accompanied by images of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Mrs. Rajavi has personally commented on the pensioner protests and the youth activist movement in order to suggest that the establishment of such a transitional government may not be far off.<\/p>\n

In a speech marking the Iranian New Year holiday, Nowruz, last month, Mrs. Rajavi specifically pointed to a series of clashes between citizens and security forces in the southeastern border province of Sistan and Baluchestan, describing them as evidence that \u201cthe fire of the uprisings\u201d was still alive in spite of the mitigating effects of the coronavirus pandemic. She was referring to a sequence of nationwide protest movements that began in the final days of 2017 and resulted in massive crackdowns by authorities who have remained fearful of direct challenges to their rule ever since.<\/p>\n

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Maryam Rajavi's speech on the advent of Persian New Year 1400<\/div><\/div>
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