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Iran News in Brief – January 15, 2023

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UPDATE: 9:00 PM CET

Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 122

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

Sunday, January 15, 2022 – 8 PM GMT+1

Iran’s nationwide uprising marked its 122nd day on Sunday as the country is gripping with freezing cold temperatures and the regime is too incompetent to provide even heating gas to tens of millions of people across the country.

Iran has the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves and yet the Iranian people are waiting in lines for cooking/heating gas, and kerosene, and posting videos from their homes and stores showing the severe gas shortage. All the while, the regime’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, has been on a Middle East tour visiting the mullahs’ allies and proxies like Hezbollah and pledging to provide for their energy needs.

Expressing their determination, courageous girls in the Capital Tehran wrote on the city wall: “a revolutionary never surrenders.”

Also, in Tehran tonight, in the Shariati district people were chanting “We do not want a child-killing regime, we do not want it,” “Death to the Murderers’ Republic.”

On Sunday morning, non-industrial workers in the port city of Bandar Mahshahr in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, staged a strike, demanding answers from officials to their outstanding issues that have gone ignored for too long.

Workers of a petrochemical site of the OCDC company in Gachsaran of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in southwest Iran held a gathering today and went on strike, protesting for answers to their long-raised demands.

In Golestan Province, northeast Iran, hundreds of people have rallied outside the home of Molana Gergich, a senior figure of the local Baluch community, to prevent authorities from taking him away following his summoning by the regime’s Special Clergy Court.

Today In Quechan southeast Iran, Bazaris kept their shops closed for the second day in a row due to the nationwide gas shortage crisis.

While expressing concern about the fate of her son In a video message, Mrs. Sharifpour mother of the political prisoner Mohammed Faramarzi addressed organizations, institutions, and human rights activists, requesting a meeting with her son and demanding help and cooperation from the international community.

UPDATE: 2:00 PM CET

Iranian Lawyer Faces Persecution for Exposing Torture of His Client

Ali Sharifzadeh Ardakani

After being summoned to the Karaj Prosecutor’s Office, the lawyer of the executed protester Mohammad Hosseini was accused of “propaganda against the state”. Ali Sharifzadeh Ardakani, who had exposed that his client was tortured during interrogation, is now facing charges and eventual punishment for speaking out.

On Saturday, January 24, this lawyer told the “Lawyers Press” website: “Although I was certain about the lack of jurisdiction of the Karaj court, I still decided to go to the court. I stated my defense and the accusation of propagandizing against the state was explained to me.”

According to Sharifzadeh, following the clarification of the charges, he was temporarily released with a bail of 100 million tomans. He also stated that in addition to issuing a criminal order, the judge “issued a judicial supervision order prohibiting him from using Twitter and Instagram for one year”.

One month before Mohammad Hosseini’s execution, his lawyer announced in a tweet about meeting his client in Karaj prison and wrote: “He was completely in tears from torture and beating. His hands and feet were tight, his eyes blindfolded. He was beaten on the head until he was unconscious. He was slammed with an iron rod on the soles of his feet and got shocks in different parts of the body. Such confessions that were attained under torture have no legal basis.”

UPDATE: 10:00 AM CET

Iran Begins 5th Month of Protests as Baloch Rallies Escalate Against the Regime

Iran’s nationwide uprising is entering its fifth month following a day of major rallies and demonstrations against the mullahs’ regime in various cities of Sistan & Baluchestan Province, especially the provincial capital of Zahedan. A large number of locals took to the streets on Friday in the Baloch cities of Zahedan, Rask, and Khash, chanting slogans specifically targeting regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the paramilitary Basij forces, and other units of the regime’s vast crackdown apparatus.

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Two Death Sentences for 18-Year-old Protester

Mohammad Mehdi Mohammadi Fard, an 18-year-old from Nowshahr, was detained and sentenced to death twice by Iran’s Judiciary during the nationwide protests on September 30, 2022. Mohammad Mehdi Mohammadifard (Mehdi Mohammadi Fard) is a tattoo artist born on January 5, 2004. This year, however, he spent his 19th birthday alone behind bars.

Iran’s state security forces alleged that Mohammad Mehdi MohammadiFard set fire to a traffic police kiosk. The only evidence used was his forced confession. He was also reportedly denied the choice of a lawyer and his family were threatened by security forces to remain silent about the case.

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#FreeIranTelethon, Freeing Iran One Call at a Time

Starting on January 13, 2023, the Iranian community will hold the 27th Free Iran Telethon in support of IranNTV, the first Persian satellite television. IranNTV, is a commercial-free television, solely concentrated on echoing the voice of freedom in Iran, dubbed the “light of our homes” by millions of Iranians inside Iran and abroad.

IranNTV has continuously been the voice of Iran uprisings, reporting on the latest events through their citizen reporters on the ground, helping connect brave protesters across the country together and with the world at large.

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Stockholm—January 13, 2023: Iranian Resistance Supporters Rally in Front of the Swedish Court, Seeking Justice for the 1988 Massacre Victims

Stockholm, Sweden—January 13, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians, and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held a rally on the third day of the appeal trial of the executioner Hamid Noury in front of the court. They are seeking justice for more than 30,000 martyrs of the 1988 massacre.

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Also, read Iran News in Brief – January 14, 2023

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