UPDATE: 10:00 PM CET
Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 119
Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran
Thursday, January 12, 2022 – 8 PM GMT+1
- Days: 119
- Protests: 282 cities
- Fatalities: 750+ estimated deaths, 627 identified by MEK
- Detentions: 30,000
#Iran opposition PMOI/MEK Resistance Units march in Tehran and chant anti-regime slogans
January 11, 2023#IranRevolution #FreeIran2023 https://t.co/RkmDqCTHSx pic.twitter.com/ObNLJX0Fej
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 12, 2023
Iran’s nationwide uprising marked its 119th day on Thursday as protesters continued their anti-regime campaign with a focus on night rallies. There are increasing reports of people burning the regime’s propaganda billboards and posters of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, writing anti-regime slogans in graffiti, and using Molotov cocktails targeting various regime-affiliated sites, mostly bases of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) paramilitary Basij units.
According to reports circulating on social media, regime authorities stationed a large number of security forces out Gohardasht (Rajaie-Shahr) Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran in the early hours of Thursday morning. Activists say this could have been in preparation for the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou, a protester arrested in the recent rallies of the ongoing revolution.
Mohammad Broghani is another arrested protester on death row in Gohardasht Prison and reports indicate that his death sentence has been temporarily halted. Ghobadlou and Broghani were sentenced to execution after being tortured into coerced confessions and without due process even according to the regime’s own laws.
In Tehran, Resistance Units affiliated with the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), marched in Tehran and chanted anti-regime slogans, including, “Khamenei is a murderer, his rule is illegitimate,” “Down with Khamenei, hail to Rajavi.”
Sari, northern #Iran
Authorities are installing higher protective walls around a local base of the IRGC paramilitary Basij units. These sites have been the target of Molotov cocktail attacks across the country.#IranRevolution #FreeIran2023 pic.twitter.com/sEOEejiIkd— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 12, 2023
“Today in Sari, northern Iran, authorities frantically installed higher protective walls around a local base of the IRGC paramilitary Basij units. These sites have been the target of Molotov cocktail attacks across the country.
Also in Tehran, people commemorated three martyrs of the uprising by laying flowers on their graves and lighting candles.
According to social media reports a young girl called Ghazal Ranjkesh, from the southern city of Bandar Abbas, lost her sight in the right eye as a result of being shot by Khamenei’s repressive forces.
In Najafabad Esfahan central Iran, a ceremony was held to commemorate the 7th day of the martyrdom of Seyed Mohammad Hosseini. In this ceremony, her sister chanted: “the message of the Iranian nation is neither fear nor submission and, we are standing still till the end.”
Britain Is Actively Considering Proscribing Iran’s Revolutionary Guard – Minister
LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Britain is actively considering proscribing Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation but has not reached a final decision on the matter, foreign office minister Leo Docherty told parliament on Thursday.
“It would be wrong of me to speculate … about the outcome of the government’s current consideration of this issue, which is active,” Docherty said during a debate on the situation in Iran during which some lawmakers had called for proscription.
Iran: No Change, Repression Continues Says Tajani
(ANSA) – ROME, JAN 12 – There has been no change in Iran’s brutal repression of protests spawned by the death in hijab patrol custody of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in Mid September despite President Sergio Mattarella’s call to end the violence, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Thursday.
“We asked Tehran for a real change but the signal we requested has not come,” said the foreign minister a day after Mattarella voiced his personal indignation to Iran’s new ambassador to Rome. Tajani told a joint session of the parliamentary foreign affairs committees that he had himself protested to the then ambassador-designate at the end of December.
UPDATE: 4:00 PM CET
MEK Resistance Units March and Chant Defiant Slogans Across Tehran Pars District
On Wednesday evening, a group of the MEK-affiliated Resistance Units in East Tehran took to the streets and started marching through the Tehran Pars district. While defiantly challenging dozens of security cameras as well as taking the risk to be exposed to overt and covert agents of the regime’s brutal security apparatus, they chanted:
- Death to Khamenei, damned be Khomeini!
- No to monarchy, no to the Supreme Leader’s rule, democracy and equality!
- Death to Khamenei, viva Rajavi!
- Let the [followers of] the Shah and Leader know, we’re the MEK and we fight tyranny!
- Oh, you brave youth! The MEK is your aid and the torch of your struggle!
- Death to the dictator!
Consequently, some of bystanders and passersby expressed appreciation, wished them success, and praised their courage.
UPDATE: 8:00 AM CET
New Year Ceremony in Auvers-sur-Oise Attended by French Mayors, Personalities and Elected Representatives
Dear neighbors and friends of the Iranian resistance in Auvers-sur-Oise, Val-d’Oise and other regions. The end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 coincided with the beginning of the uprisings of the Iranian people against the mullahs’ regime. You have already seen and read the video clips and news of that uprising, which is in its fourth month, and has changed the face of Iran. Everyone saw that in Iran, large majority of Iranians are staging protests. Many clearly said that this was not a protest, but a revolution and they saw how weak and isolated the regime of the Mullahs is.
Protests Continue in Iran as Regime Escalates Crackdown Measures
The mullahs’ regime ruling Iran, in dire need to bring the ongoing protests across the country to a final end, has been escalating its crackdown measures and threats, including issuing an increasing number of death sentences to arrested protesters. After already executing four individuals arrested in the recent protests that many inside Iran and abroad are describing as a revolution, the ruling regime is faced with a nation determined to continue their campaign for freedom and democracy and refusing to back down in the face of the mullahs’ repression.
I Wish This Was All a Dream; Mohammad Boroughani on Death Row
I wish everything that is happening was a dream, it has tired me out. This is what 19-year-old Mohammad Boroughani told his cellmates before being transferred to Evin Prison. Born on March 20, 2004, Mohammad Boroughani is a resident of Pakdasht in Karaj. Iran’s Judiciary sentenced him to death after he was arrested during October 2022 gatherings. His father Hussein Boroughani says, “I am a worker. My son has been working for a contracting company for two years. He knew how to repair shoes years before.”
Zurich, Switzerland—January 10, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and Mek Supporters Expressed Their Support for Simay Azadi Intv, Demanding To Participate in #Freeirantelethon
Zurich, Switzerland—January 10, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) expressed their support for Simay Azadi INTV (@simayazaditv), an independent TV that reflects people’s protests and their struggle against the mullahs’ regime.
Also, read Iran News in Brief – January 11, 2023