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Iran News in Brief – April 5, 2023

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THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS

UPDATE: 8:30 PM CET

Iran Uprising at a Glance

Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 – 8 PM GMT + 1

Iran’s nationwide uprising marked its 201st day on Wednesday. With protests continuing and needing to keep a lid on the threat of a new uprising, the mullahs’ regime has ordered its operatives to launch more chemical gas attacks targeting all-girls schools in various cities across the country. The ruling dictatorship is playing with fire as such attacks against innocent schoolgirls bear the potential of sparking another round of nationwide protests that rocked the regime to its very core.

MEK-affiliated Resistance Units and protesters in cities across Iran responded with a wave of new anti-regime measures to the mullahs’ latest chemical gas attacks against all-girls schools, and misogynist rules and restrictions imposed on Iranian women regarding their attire and the hijab.

—MEK-affiliated Resistance Units torched images of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini and current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Jondi Shapour, Sabzevar, and Ardastan.

—Protesters attacked a seminary in Isfahan used by the mullahs’ regime to spread their ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism.

—Protesters attacked IRGC paramilitary Basij bases in the cities of Karaj, Qom, Amol, Kuhdasht, Nowshahr, and Semnan.

—Protesters in Tehran and Qom and the Northern city  Rudsar attacked various branches of banks associated with the mullahs’ regime and the IRGC. These banks have been plundering people’s savings to fund the regime’s belligerence both inside the country and abroad.

The all-girls “Hazrat-e Mahdi Elementary School” in the city of Piranshahr in northwest Iran has been the target of a chemical gas attack by regime operatives on Wednesday. Many students were rushed to a hospital to receive medical attention.

Further reports indicate another all-girls school in Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan in western Iran, has also been targeted in a chemical gas attack by regime operatives. Several students were poisoned as a result.

In Kuhanjan, Fars Province, south-central Iran, the all-girls “Esteghlal School” was the target of a chemical gas attack by regime operatives. Several students were rushed to a hospital to receive medical attention.

In Ahvaz, southwest Iran, pensioners and retirees of the regime’s Social Security Organization protested high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, poor living conditions, and officials’ refusal to address their demands.

In Tehran, locals gathered in the capital’s Shahr-e-Ziba district to mark the birthday of a protester killed by the regime during the recent Iran revolution protests. The crowd began to grow inside and people were seen chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Down with the dictator!”
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”

UPDATE: 4:00 PM CET

Large Crowds Attend to Honor Young Man Killed by Security Forces

On Tuesday, April 4, despite official warnings and threats by security forces, a funeral was held in Sabzevar, Khorasan Razavi province, where large crowds of people gathered to pay tribute to a young man who was killed by the regime on Sunday.

According to local sources, Ali Baghjari, a young man who was passing a checkpoint with his mother on April 2, got into a verbal dispute with security forces whereby he was consequently shot several times by the police and died in front of his mother.

The residents of Baghjari village have confirmed the incident and stated they will do everything to hold the perpetrators to account.

The United States Faces a Host of Threats From Our Adversaries, According to Intelligence Agencies

The U.S. homeland is facing “complex” threats from America’s adversaries, warned the 2023 Annual Threat Assessment issued on March 8 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The report called out top U.S. opponents that threaten us and technologies they are developing that “disrupt” traditional business and society. In the weeks that followed, real-life examples brought home the DNI’s warning that America is indeed under intensifying threats from multiple actors and directions.

The DNI report correctly calls out Iran for threatening U.S. citizens directly and via proxy attacks, highlighting Tehran’s commitment to developing “surrogate networks inside the United States, an objective it has pursued for more than a decade.” This intelligence assessment is consistent with another recent report that warned about Iran’s plans to attack strategic security assets and institutions in the U.S. The report, titled “The Unseen Threat of the Mapping Project,” claims that Iranian elements have identified 298 American strategic security assets and institutions as well as personnel for attacks, kidnappings, and assassinations.

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UPDATE: 10:00 AM CET

Protests Reported Across Iran as Regime Renews Chemical Gas Attacks

Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 201st day on Tuesday with protesters in various cities voicing their anger, especially regarding the regime’s destructive economic policies. In the midst of this unrest, the mullahs’ regime has once again launched chemical gas attacks targeting all-girls schools in different cities.

People throughout Iran continue to specifically hold the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij units, alongside other security units that are on the ground suppressing the peaceful demonstrators.

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Female Students Fall Victim to Poisoning Upon School Reopening in Iran

The head of the pre-hospital emergency in East Azerbaijan reported the poisoning of 20 female students in a girls’ school in the Baghmisheh district of Tabriz. These students experienced shortness of breath on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, and were transferred to Sina Hospital. (The state-run ILNA news agency – April 4, 2023). Similarly, eight female students at Sahar Girls’ high school in Dolat Abad district, Isfahan, experienced poisoning symptoms and were transferred to Imam Reza Hospital for treatment. (The state-run ROKNA website, April 4, 2023)

In another incident on the first day of school reopening, five female students in Naqadeh, West Azerbaijan province, also fell victim to poisoning.

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Malmö, Sweden—April 1, 2023: Freedom-Loving Iranians Rally in Support of the Iran Revolution

Malmö, Sweden—April 1, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and MEK supporters held a demonstration in solidarity with the nationwide Iran protests. Iranians chanted other slogans, including: “Death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or a supreme leader (Khamenei)”! “Neither monarchy nor supreme leader (Khamenei), Democracy and equality”!

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Oslo, Norway—April 1, 2023: MEK Supporters Rally to Support the Iran Revolution

Oslo, Norway—April 1, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a rally in front of the Norwegian Parliament and expressed solidarity with the nationwide Iran protests.

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Also, read Iran News in Brief – April 4, 2023

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