{"id":335271,"date":"2025-08-06T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=335271"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:05:38","slug":"iran-protests-continue-over-regimes-incompetence-and-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iran-protests-continue-over-regimes-incompetence-and-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Protests Continue Over Regime&#8217;s Incompetence and Brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_335272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335272\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-335272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/August-4\u2014Tehran-Hundreds-of-electrical-workers-rallied-outside-the-Ministry-of-Energy.jpg\" alt=\"August 4\u2014Tehran, Hundreds of electrical workers rallied outside the Ministry of Energy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/August-4\u2014Tehran-Hundreds-of-electrical-workers-rallied-outside-the-Ministry-of-Energy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/August-4\u2014Tehran-Hundreds-of-electrical-workers-rallied-outside-the-Ministry-of-Energy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/August-4\u2014Tehran-Hundreds-of-electrical-workers-rallied-outside-the-Ministry-of-Energy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/August-4\u2014Tehran-Hundreds-of-electrical-workers-rallied-outside-the-Ministry-of-Energy-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/August-4\u2014Tehran-Hundreds-of-electrical-workers-rallied-outside-the-Ministry-of-Energy-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/August-4\u2014Tehran-Hundreds-of-electrical-workers-rallied-outside-the-Ministry-of-Energy-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">August 4, 2025\u2014Tehran, hundreds of electrical workers rallied outside the Ministry of Energy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A firestorm of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/\">public fury swept across Iran<\/a> this week as the regime\u2019s catastrophic failure to provide basic necessities like water and electricity ignited nationwide protests. From the Caspian coast to the western mountains, and in major industrial centers, citizens are taking to the streets, transforming their frustration over failing infrastructure into explicit calls for the overthrow of the clerical dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unrest reached a boiling point on the night of August 5, 2025, in Karaj. Residents poured into the streets; their anger directed squarely at the top of the regime with chants of \u201cDeath to Khamenei\u201d and \u201cCursed be Khomeini.\u201d Simultaneously, in Motel Ghoo in Mazandaran province, citizens protested relentless power outages. In the western city of Gilan-e Gharb, residents furious over a prolonged water crisis declared that there is \u201cno water from top to bottom,\u201d threatening to march on the provincial governor\u2019s office in Kermanshah to hold officials accountable.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Economic Collapse: A Multi-Sector Crisis Paralyzing the Nation<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The infrastructure crisis is merely the most visible symptom of a terminal economic disease inflicted by decades of corruption and mismanagement. The paralysis is crippling every sector of society. In Isfahan, factory owners in the Sejzi Industrial Town held a rally on August 6 after suffering 27 consecutive days without water, bringing production to a standstill. \u201cWe have no water!\u201d one protester cried out in a recorded video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">August 4\u2014Tehran, Iran<br \/>Hundreds of electrical workers rallied outside the Ministry of Energy to protest stagnant wages and job insecurity.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qgL2i7KnFS\">pic.twitter.com\/qgL2i7KnFS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1952775930696421862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This desperation is echoed across the country. In West Azerbaijan, residents of the Tazehkand district gathered to protest severe water cuts, while a local baker documented the devastating impact of both water and power shortages on his livelihood. In Shahrud, municipal workers protested not having been paid their salaries for months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the capital region is a hotbed of industrial unrest. On August 6, workers at high-voltage electricity posts in Tehran protested their conditions, chanting &#8220;We will never be humiliated\u201d amid the nation&#8217;s power crisis. Poultry farmers also rallied in Tehran, warning of the complete collapse of their industry due to the regime&#8217;s failure to provide essential feed like soy. On the same day, truck drivers striking on the Babaei highway over the lack of diesel fuel quotas completed a picture of a nation grinding to a halt.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Face of Defiance<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">August 5\u2014Miandoab, northwest Iran<br \/>A woman protests in front of the electricity office as prolonged power outages are disrupting life and the regime refrains from taking action.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cZfay8hpHg\">pic.twitter.com\/cZfay8hpHg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1953147095109824602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond the collective outrage, potent acts of individual courage are becoming beacons of the resistance. In Miandoab, a courageous woman became a symbol of defiance after severe power fluctuations destroyed her home appliances. After being met with dismissiveness and contempt by officials at the local electricity department, she took matters into her own hands. In a stunning act of protest, she single-handedly blocked the street in front of the building.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Regime&#8217;s Answer: Brutality Instead of Relief<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When faced with its citizens\u2019 suffering, the regime\u2019s response is not relief but ruthless suppression, particularly against Iran\u2019s long-persecuted ethnic minorities. On August 1, in the port city of Chabahar in Sistan and Baluchestan province, regime agents, backed by security forces and plainclothes thugs, brought in a bulldozer and demolished the home of a poor Baluchi citizen in the Zibashahr district. The cruel act was carried out without warning, leaving a hardworking family with no other shelter. This is not an isolated incident but a continuation of the regime&#8217;s systematic policy of oppressing the people of Sistan and Baluchestan, a region deliberately kept in poverty and deprivation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">August 1\u2014Chabahar, southeast Iran<br \/>Security forces assaulted a family and demolished their home in the Zibashahr area. At least three children were injured during the raid.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vcjM5bVSQB\">pic.twitter.com\/vcjM5bVSQB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1951606497550401706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The convergence of nationwide protests\u2014from infrastructure failures and economic strikes to individual defiance and the brutalization of minorities\u2014paints a clear picture. The Iranian people hold the entire clerical dictatorship responsible for their suffering. The chants of \u201cDeath to Khamenei\u201d are no longer confined to major cities; they echo in every town and village facing a crisis. This widespread and multifaceted discontent is not merely a series of protests over services; it is the prelude to a larger, decisive uprising to establish a free and democratic republic. The regime is sitting on a powder keg of its own making, and the fuse is lit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A firestorm of public fury swept across Iran this week as the regime&rsquo;s catastrophic failure to provide basic necessities like water and electricity ignited nationwide protests. 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