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Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 145
Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 – 8 PM GMT + 1
- Days: 145
- Protests: 282 cities
- Fatalities: 750+ estimated deaths, 647 identified by MEK
- Detentions: 30,000
Iran’s nationwide uprising marked its 145th day on Tuesday with protesters voicing their hatred of the ruling mullahs’ regime by torching its symbols in a growing number of cities across the country. Including the capital Tehran.
Tehran, #Iran
Protesters are torching pro-regime propaganda billboards, posters, and banners across the country's capital.#IranRevoIution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/pnwE0Iji7N— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 7, 2023
In Tehran, protesters torched pro-regime propaganda billboards, posters, and banners across the country’s capital.
In Ahoran, Sistan and Baluchistan Province, southeast Iran, protesters torched the posters of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini and current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Ahoran, Sistan & Baluchestan Province, southeast #Iran
Protesters are torching posters of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini and current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.#IranRevolution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/fDj3mDFSli— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 7, 2023
In the capital, National University Students held a gathering protesting the campus’ Guidance Patrol, which harasses of female students for their hijab, and causes other problems for students in general.
On Tuesday, chicken farmers held a rally outside the regime’s Agricultural Ministry in Tehran protesting increasing expenses that have left them barely able to make ends meet. Chicken farmers warned that the status quo will lead to the destruction of this industry. But, plainclothes agents attacked their ranks.
February 7 – Tehran, #Iran
Chicken farmers warned that the status quo will lead to the destruction of this industry. However, plainclothes agents attacked their ranks.#IranPotests2023#اعتراضات_سراسریpic.twitter.com/Xr8bAtgmdy pic.twitter.com/EuHEazgXXr— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 7, 2023
Early Tuesday morning protesters in Bandar Abbas torched pro-regime propaganda posters. There were more such reports from the cities of Bushehr in the south, Mashhad in the northeast, Divandarreh, in western Iran. In Minab, Hormozgan Province, southern Iran, protesters torched pro-regime propaganda billboards, posters, and banners across the city. This goes parallel to reports late Monday night from various districts of Tehran where locals chanted anti-regime slogans.
February 7 – Bandar Abbas, southern #Iran
Protesters are torching pro-regime propaganda banners across the city.#IranRevoIution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/04szoZjfof— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 7, 2023
In Tehran, Kian Tire Manufacturing Company workers held a rally at the factory protesting the company officials’ refusal to address their demands. “Enough with promises! We have nothing to eat!” they chanted.
In Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran, students of a university where the regime’s government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi was visiting on Monday began chanting slogans and specifically shouting: “Spokesman, get lost!”
February 6 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
Students of a local university chanted against the regime's government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi.
"Spokesman, get lost!" they're chanting.#IranRevoIution #مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/czfqLzUK9z— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 7, 2023
At a ceremony at Ashraf-3 in Albania, on the anniversary of the martyrdom of two senior MEK officials on February 8, 1982, in Tehran, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI’s President-elect, said, “While still feeling the pain and suffering of that day, we salute Ashraf Rajavi, Moussa Khiabani, and their comrades, who fought to their last breath with the criminal IRGC.”
On the anniversary of the slaying of PMOI heroes on the cold and bloody dawn of February 8, 1982, while still feeling the pain and suffering of that day, we salute Ashraf Rajavi, Mousa Khiabani, and their comrades, who fought till their last breath with the criminal IRGC.#Iran pic.twitter.com/TIjM8CmXZ4
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 7, 2023
UPDATE: 7:30 PM CET
Us Senators Seek Answers From Meta on Whether User Data Was Accessed by Iran, China, Russia and Others
Top US lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee want answers from Meta on a newly disclosed internal investigation it conducted in 2018 that found tens of thousands of software developers in China, Russia, and other “high-risk” countries may have had access to detailed Facebook user data before the company clamped down on that access beginning in 2014.
In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, the chair and vice-chair of the Senate committee, cited a document unsealed last week in an ongoing privacy lawsuit involving the company.
That document, an internal slide presentation from 2018, suggested that nearly 87,000 developers in China, 42,000 in Russia, and a handful based in Cuba, Iran, and North Korea had access to Facebook user information through an earlier version of the company’s programming interfaces. The presentation provides an interim update on the probe, which found, among other things, that Iran was home to a “significant number of seemingly Russian developers” of Facebook apps.
UPDATE: 8:30 AM CET
More People Across Iran Are Protesting the Mullahs’ Rule
People from different strata in Iran are taking to the streets in escalating protests against the regime’s corrupt rule. This includes farmers in Isfahan, steel workers in Ahvaz, and families of locals arrested in the city of Abdanan in Ilam Province who recently took to the streets in major anti-regime protests.
Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 282 cities. Over 750 people have been killed and more than 30,000 are arrested by the regime’s forces, according to sources of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 647 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
Zahra Teymouri Receives 74 Lashes Before House Arrest
After serving four months of imprisonment and receiving 74 lashes, Zahra Teymouri went to house arrest with leg tags to spend the rest of her one-year imprisonment at her home and its surroundings within a radius of 500 meters.
Zahra Teymouri, a graduate of Tehran University, was sentenced to 1 year of imprisonment and 74 lashes in the first instance court of Branch 105 of the Criminal Court of Shahriar in Tehran Province on the charge of “disturbing public order.”
The ruling rejected the deposit of bail and any conversion of the sentence to a fine for Zahra Teymouri.
Blacklist IRGC, the Major Suppressor of Iran’s Protests
One of the primary roles of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is to suppress the voice and beliefs of any opponent. For the past four decades, many people across Iran have been the victims of the IRGC’s cruelty.
This article will examine their role before the nationwide protests in 2017-2018. In the first days and months after the revolution, the IRGC expanded the regime’s dominance by repressing the people in Turkmen Sahra, Kurdistan, Khuzestan, and Tabriz.
At that time, the IRGC’s members committed a wide range of atrocities. Dozens of innocent people were killed, and many forcefully disappeared. Families were destroyed, and many others were forced to leave their homes and the regions they had lived in all their lives.
Heidelberg, Germany—February 4, 2023: MEK Supporters Rally in Solidarity With the Iran Revolution
Heidelberg, Germany—February 4, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a rally in solidarity with the Iranian people’s uprising. Members of the Iranian community in Heidelberg expressed their utter support of their risen compatriots and vowed to continue echoing their voices, calling for freedom and democracy in Iran.
Berlin, Germany—February 3, 2023: MEK Supporters Rally in Solidarity With the Iran Revolution
Berlin, Germany—February 3, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a rally in solidarity with the Iranian people’s uprising. Members of the Iranian community in Berlin expressed their utter support of their risen compatriots and vowed to continue echoing their voices, calling for freedom and democracy in Iran.
Also, read Iran News in Brief – February 6, 2023
