Iran Protest-No. 56
On Saturday, October 15, the 30th night of the nationwide uprising, there were demonstrations and clashes with the suppressive forces in various districts of Tehran, including Sadeghieh, Tehran Pars, Naziabad, Shahr-e Ray, and Qal’e Hassan Khan (Quds City) and in cities of Yazd, Isfahan, Hamedan, Dehdasht, Khorramabad, Sari, Shahinshahr, Yasuj, Urmia, Mahabad, Marivan, Bandar Abbas, Kish Island, Tabriz, and a number of others. These protests took place despite the heavy presence of the suppressive forces.
Demonstrations in Isfahan in Vali-e Asr Square, Baharestan and Togchi neighborhood led to clashes with the suppressive forces and plainclothes agents were forced to flee from the scene of clashes in Al-e Ahmad Street.
In Tehran’s Naziabad district, young people forced the suppressive forces to flee the area. In Khorramabad, western Iran, the youth attacked the vehicle of the regime’s agents while chanting “Death to the dictator” and beat up the Basij paramilitary agents. In Shahinshahr, people set fire to Basji agents’ motorbikes and in the Ferdowsi shopping mall, a number of people were injured when suppressive forces attacked them. In Tabriz, the regime had mobilized all its forces to suppress protests, but young people staged a nightly demonstration and clashed with the forces in Khatib Square.
October 16 – Tehran, #Iran
Ekbatan district
Protesters chanting: "Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!"#IranRevolution2022#مهسا_امینی #آزادی_آزادی_آزادی pic.twitter.com/sp0bUiWyTq— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) October 16, 2022
Today, students in Tehran’s universities such as Al-Zahra, Melli, Azad Science and Research Unit, Allameh, Science and Culture, Khajeh Nasir, Tarbiat Modares, Sureh Art, Science and Technology, Shariati, Girls’ Vocational Technical University, Azad in Punak, and in other provinces including, Kharazmi in Karaj, Razi in Kermanshah, Arts in Isfahan, Gilan, Azad in Rasht, Tabriz, Medical in Kerman, and Paramedicine in Kermanshah staged protests in which they chanted, “This year, is a year of sacrifice. Seyyed Ali (Khamenei) will be overthrown,” “Death to Khamenei,” “Mullahs must get lost,” “For every fallen person, one thousand rise,” “Basij agent, this is your end,” “Kurdistan and Zahedan are the hopes of Iran,” “The imprisoned student must be released,” “We will fight, we will die, and we will take back Iran,” “Students are ready to die but will not be humiliated,” and “Death to the Supreme Leader after many long years of crimes.”. In reference to remarks by the regime’s president Ebrahim Raisi, who called the protesters “filthy flies”, the female students of Kharazmi University in Tehran chanted “You are the filthy fly, I am a liberated woman”
October 16 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Kashani Street establishing roadblocks as they continue the nationwide protests against the regime on the 31st day of the uprising.#IranRevolution2022#مهسا_امینی #آزادی_آزادی_آزادیpic.twitter.com/VMTukIn6Kc— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) October 16, 2022
Quoting Hasan Hasanzadeh, the Commander of the Greater Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is under the supervision of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the state-run website Asr-e Iran on Saturday, October 15, acknowledged the helplessness of the suppressive forces in facing the protesters and said: “In every clash, even when it leads to victory, the victorious side in the field also suffers losses, and so far 850 [of our forces] have been wounded and three martyred in the current unrest. In just one night, 185 [of our forces] were wounded and we had to fight with rioters for 45 minutes in Al-Ghadir Square.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
October 16, 2022
