NCRI

Iran News in Brief – January 31, 2023

Sedighe Shahrokhi

iran charmahal bakhtiari pensioners 30012023

THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS

UPDATE: 8:00 PM CET

Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 138

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

Tuesday, January 31, 2023 – 8 PM GMT + 1

Iran’s nationwide uprising marked its 138th day on Tuesday as people in cities across the country continued to protest the officials’ corrupt policies and incompetence in providing the nation’s basic necessities.

On Tuesday morning, investors of the Cryptoland online exchange held a rally outside the regime’s judiciary building in Tehran demanding the IRGC return their stolen money.

The users of Cryptoland have been holding protests for two years, but authorities are refraining from acting on their demands. Cryptoland had around 289,000 users, who have lost hundreds of millions worth of their savings in the online marketplace.

In other reports on this day, schoolkids in the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah Province, western Iran, took to the streets and began chanting anti-regime slogans, including: “From Zahedan to Izeh, this country is bleeding!” and
“Death to Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”

In Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, northwest Iran, courageous youth set fire to one of the regime’s official radio and television masts.

Late last night In the capital’s Ekbatan, Sattarkhan, and Tehransar districts, brave girls protested and chanted slogans against the misogynist mullahs’ regime, including “Death to Khamenei,” and “Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”

Also, last night, Kelardasht, Mazandaran Province, northern Iran, protesters torched a poster of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini, and the eliminated IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani.

Following Saturday’s devastating earthquake in Khoy, northwest Iran, regime authorities have deployed a large number of security units to this city and most are stationed in the Khoy Red Crescent, according to local activists. Anyone who protests is attacked and beaten with batons, the report adds.

Also, in Khoy, northwest Iran, locals gathered outside the governor’s office yet again demanding regime authorities provide aid and food and protested to regime officials and demanded answers on why they haven’t received any aid following Saturday’s 5.9 magnitude earthquake that has devastated the city.

In Sarpole Zahab, Kermanshah Province, western Iran, locals took measures into their own hands by gathering food and supplies for their compatriots in the earthquake-hit city of Khoy. These people suffered a major earthquake on November 25, 2018.

UPDATE: 6:30 PM CET

Australia Imposes Sanctions on Iranian Officials and Myanmar’s Military Ruler

Australia has imposed sanctions on Iranian security officials and has also targeted Myanmar’s military ruler on the second anniversary of the military coup.

The Australian government revealed a range of new sanctions late on Tuesday, including Iranian figures linked to the suppression of protests and the export of drones for Russian use in the war against Ukraine.

Australian travel bans and asset freezes will apply to 16 people and one entity linked to “serious abuses of human rights in Iran”, including the commander-in-chief of the army, Sayyed Abdolrahim Mousavi, and senior figures in the Basij Resistance Force.

Read more

The EU Can, and Should, Designate the IRGC as a Terrorist Group

The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of a measure calling for the European Union to designate the IRGC, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as a terrorist organization on Jan. 18. The vote was 598 to 9, with 31 absentees. Just the previous day, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos and publicly backed the idea of an EU designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization. But when EU foreign ministers met in Brussels just a few days later to discuss the issue, they opted to add more individual names to the bloc’s list of people sanctioned for human rights abuses rather than to list the IRGC as a terrorist group.

Read more

U.S. Curbs Exports To Iranian Firms for Producing Drones for Russia

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Tuesday added seven Iranian entities to its trade blacklist for producing drones that Russia has used to attack Ukraine, according to a posting by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Nearing a year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, allies have scrambled to gather and deploy air defenses to defeat cruise missiles and Iranian-built kamikaze drones that have attacked energy infrastructure targets this winter.

Earlier this month, Canada announced it would buy a U.S.-made National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) for Ukraine. NASAMS is a short- to medium-range ground-based air defense system that protects against drone, missile, and aircraft attack. The United States has provided two NASAMS to Ukraine, with more on the way.

Read more

UPDATE: 8:30 AM CET

Iranians in Different Cities Protest Regime’s Corruption, Incompetence

Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 137th day on Monday as people in cities across the country protest the officials’ corrupt policies and incompetence in providing the nation’s basic necessities. Following Saturday night’s earthquake in Khoy of West Azerbaijan Province in northwest Iran locals have been left to endure the freezing cold weather without any meaningful aid from the authorities. Regime officials, however, immediately dispatched security units to the area.

Similar reports of discord have been arriving from Tehran and other cities as general dissent continue to simmer against the mullahs’ regime.

Read more

Blacklist IRGC, for the Role of Its Intelligence Organization in Suppressing Journalists

The Iranian regime’s structure of a military, totalitarian, authoritarian, and theocratic dictatorship possesses many oppressive apparatuses to control and suppress the ever-growing fury and conflict within Iranian society.

One of the most infamous and brutal organizations is the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It was established in 2009 as one of the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s initiatives after the nationwide protests to the fraud election at the time.

The organization is as powerful as the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS,) and possibly even more so than the other services. It is more active domestically.

Read more

Berlin, Germany—January 28, 2023: MEK Supporters Rally in Solidarity With the Iran Revolution

Berlin, Germany—January 28, 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.

Read more

Vienna, Austria—January 28, 2023: MEK Supporters Rally in Solidarity With the Iran Revolution

Vienna, Austria—January 28, 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 Vienna expressed their utter support of their risen compatriots and vowed to continue echoing their voices, calling for freedom and democracy in Iran.

Read more

Also, read Iran News in Brief – January 30, 2023

Exit mobile version