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UPDATE: 6:22 PM CET
Iran: Women Sell their Hair to Make ends Meet
Iran’s state-run Khorasan daily acknowledged on Wednesday that Iranian women and girl sell their hair to make their ends meet.
“A ten-year-old girl sold her hair to purchase a cellphone. A middle-aged woman sold her hair to pay for her husband’s medications, who is now invalid after falling from a building. Another 21-year-old customer sold her hair to pay the installments of her sisters’ dowry. And a teenage girl sold her hair to enroll at high school,” Khorasan daily wrote.
Maryam Rajavi: Teachers’ Protests Manifest General Determination of Iran’s People to Overthrow the Regime
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI’s president-elect, hailed Iran’s protesting teachers. She underlined that the “teachers protests in Iran manifest the determination of the general Iranian public to overthrow the clerical regime that is the main cause of oppression, corruption, poverty, unemployment, and poverty.”
The teachers’ protests in #Iran manifest the determination of the general Iranian public to overthrow the clerical regime that is the main cause of oppression, corruption, poverty, unemployment and poverty. #IranProtests
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) December 23, 2021
“I call on Iranian youths, particularly the high school and university students, to join their teachers in support. The first lesson of the freedom-loving teachers of Iran is to be free and courageous in the face of the mullahs’ oppression,” Mrs. Rajavi added.
I call on Iranian youths, particularly the high school and university students, to join their teachers in support. The first lesson of the freedom-loving teachers of #Iran is to be free and courageous in the face of the mullahs’ oppression.
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) December 23, 2021
Iranian Teachers Hold Nationwide Protests
Iranian teachers held a nationwide protest on December 23 across Iran. Iranian teachers demand their basic rights, but the Iranian regime refuses to pay them. The Iranian opposition, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) has tallied reports and footages, through its network, from the teachers’ protest on Thursday.
Dec 23 – Tabriz, #Iran
Protesting teachers demanding higher paychecks.#IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری_معلمان pic.twitter.com/mjStqX9rPN— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 23, 2021
Dec 23 – Shahrekord, central #Iran
Teachers protesting for higher paychecks and fair policies.#IranProtests#اعتراضات_سراسریpic.twitter.com/IusdHgvyFr— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 23, 2021
Dec 23 – Zanjan, northwest #Iran
"Teachers cry out for your rights!"
"Lies & broken promises have lost their effect!"
"Protests will continue!"
Similar organized protests are reported from at least 60 cities across Iran.#IranProtests#اعتراضات_سراسریpic.twitter.com/BtriClEinK— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 23, 2021
UPDATE: 8:30 AM CET
US Navy Seizes 1,400 AK-47 assault rifles and 226,600 rounds of ammunition heading from Iran to Yemen
The US Navy has seized 1,400 AK-47 rifles and ammunition from a fishing boat it was smuggling weapons from Iran to Huthi rebels in Yemen.
US Naval Forces Central Command, or NAVCENT, said it boarded the boat on December 20 in the North Arabian Sea, seized the weapons cache and five crew members.
“US 5th Fleet ships seized approximately 1,400 AK-47 assault rifles and 226,600 rounds of ammunition from a stateless fishing vessel,“ a US navy statement Wednesday read.
“The stateless vessel was assessed to have originated in Iran and transited international waters along a route historically used to traffic weapons unlawfully to the Huthis in Yemen.”
“The direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of weapons to the Huthis violates UN Security Council Resolutions and US sanctions,“ the US statement added.
The boat was sunk because it was a “hazard” for commercial shipping, the statement said.
Iran: MEK Supporters Continued their Protests in Sweden
December 22 – Stockholm
Freedom-loving Iranians & family members of political prisoners killed by #Iran's regime during the summer #1988Massacre rallying outside the trial session of Iranian regime operative Hamid Noury.#ProsecuteRaisiNOWPart 1pic.twitter.com/P16DJUIs6V
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 22, 2021
On Wednesday, freedom-loving Iranians, supporters of the MEK, and family members of political prisoners killed by the Iranian regime held a rally outside a courthouse in Sweden where the trial of Hamid Noury is taking place. Noury is a former Iranian official involved in the 1988 massacre.
Political Prisoners in Urmia on Hunger Strike for More Than a Week—Iran News
Dozens of political prisoners in Urmia Central Prison have been on hunger strike for 10 days. The prisoners went on hunger strike after being transferred to a high-security ward The ward has been designed to torture and harass political prisoners.
Prison authorities have isolated the transferred inmates from other political prisoners. Urmia Central Prison is one of Iran’s most notorious prisons.
Prison authorities often torture prisoners and force them into false confessions. The NCRI has called on international human rights organizations to inspect Iran’s prisons The Iranian Resistance also called on the UN to condemn the ill-treatment of political prisoners in Iran
Iran’s Regime Will Raise the Price of Gasoline Again
In the past months, Iranian officials have been constantly talking about the need for a “big surgery” to save the regime. Regime president Ebrahim Raisi said in October, “The government and I would not hesitate to put our reputation on the line to carry out big surgeries and save the country’s economy.”
Iran: COVID-19 Deaths Surpass 491,100
Read more: Iran News in Brief – December 22, 2021
