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Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 180
Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 – 8 PM GMT+ 1
- Days: 180
- Protests: 282 cities
- Fatalities: 750+ estimated deaths, 664 identified by MEK
- Detentions: 30,000
March 14 – Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Locals are turning the annual Fire Festivities into anti-regime protests.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/h6vzMKgPHJ— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2023
Iran’s nationwide uprising witnessed its 180th day on Tuesday and entered its seventh month of relentless anti-regime protests by the general public that is demanding its rights and to live in freedom and democracy.
March 14 – Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
Locals are turning the annual Fire Festivities into anti-regime protests.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/nCIGN7ih3O— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2023
Last night people in the capital Tehran and many cities across the country took to the streets in a new wave of anti-regime protests. These were followed by protests today as the Iranian nation celebrated the annual Fire Festival prior to Nowruz, the Iranian country’s calendar New Year on March 20.
March 14 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Naziabad district are turning the annual Fire Festivities into anti-regime protests.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/WsPp7hyx7y— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2023
Nightly anti-regime protests erupted yet again late last night and continued till the early hours of Tuesday as protesters in Tehran and many other cities across the country took to the streets to march and chant slogans against the mullahs’ dictatorship. These protests were reported in the country’s capital and the cities of Mashhad, Karaj, Sanandaj, Babol, Saveh, Malayer, Amol, Kamyaran, Qazvin, Yazd, Mahabad, and others.
March 14 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Javadieh district are blocking roads and turning the annual Fire Festivities into anti-regime protests.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/f6TUUS7Hxl— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2023
March 14 – Piranshahr, northwest #Iran
Locals turning the annual Fire Festivities into anti-regime protests.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/Krq2Uowua6— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2023
People in different parts of Tehran and other cities across the country celebrated the annual “Fire Festival” by taking to the streets and launching anti-regime protests. These gatherings were in Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj, Isfahan, Zahedan, Baneh, Qom, Divandarreh, Mahabad, Sanandaj, Zanjan, Piranshahr, Saqqez, Rasht, Javanrud, Naqadeh, Kermanshah, Kamyaran, Shahre Rey, Abdanan, Izeh, and others.
March 14 – Saqqez, western #Iran
Additional footage of locals turning the annual Fire Festivities into anti-regime protests.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/d9hK53tFkc— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2023
Authorities in the cities of Mahabad, Saqqez, and also across Tehran Province dispatched security units into the streets and scrambled reinforcements to prevent the anti-regime protests from erupting into scenes of major unrest.
March 13 – Babol, northern #Iran
Locals are continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 179th night of the uprising.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/ctPF42d6tj— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 13, 2023
In the city of Piranshahr in northwest Iran, locals held protest gatherings despite the fact that authorities had dispatched many security units to the streets and militarized their districts to prevent people from marking the annual Fire Festivities.
March 13 – Kamyaran, western #Iran
Protesters are chanting: "Death to Khamenei!"
"Death to the dictator!"#No2ShahNo2Mullahs#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/Ai06nPq3a4— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 13, 2023
In Zanjan, northwest Iran, protesters burned a monument built by the regime in memory of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani. In Karaj protesters attacked a store owned by the IRGC, further showing the Iranian public’s hatred of the regime and its oppressive security apparatus.
March 14 – Qom, central, #Iran
Locals in the city's Niroogah district are blocking roads and turning the annual Fire Festivities into anti-regime protests.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/U9YyICKwvv— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2023
In another development, Steel factory workers began their gathering today in Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran, to protest company officials’ refusal to address their long-raised demands.
March 14 – Baneh, western #Iran
Locals are turning the annual Fire Festivities into anti-regime protests.#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/MToP6YXEpx— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2023
Owners of various vehicles and trucks at the fruit/vegetables distribution square in the city of Shiraz, south-central Iran, are on strike and protesting recent increases in vehicle customs.
Seasonal workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company near the city of Shush in the Khuzestan Province of southwest Iran are continuing their strike and protests as their demands remain unattended to by company officials.
March 14 – Haft Tappeh, southwest #Iran
Seasonal workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company are continuing their strike, protesting company officials' refusal to address their demands.#IranProtests2023 pic.twitter.com/GI6XTkVsKH— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2023
UPDATE: 9:00 AM CET
Iranians of Different Sectors Hold Protest Rallies Against the Regime
People from various sectors of Iran’s society took to the streets on Sunday protesting their economic woes rendered from the regime’s destructive polices. More people are demanding their rights and these protests are increasingly evolving into political rallies targeting the regime’s top echelons.
People throughout the country are specifically holding 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.
Biological Terror – Serial Poisoning of High School Girls in Iran
Girls’ schools in Iran have been targeted with biological attacks in what many believe is a form of retaliation for their participation in anti-regime protests. Hundreds of students have fallen ill. What’s even more alarming is that this isn’t an isolated incident – it’s happened all across the country, affecting 5,000 students at least. The chemical attacks are not only causing instant harm to innocent students but endangering their health in the future.
The widespread and systematic poisoning of female students across the country is an unprecedented crime that only the inhuman clerical regime can commit. So what’s going on, and why are these attacks happening?
Washington, DC: Freedom-Loving Iranians and MEK Supporters Demonstration After Holding the Summit in Support of the Iran Revolution
Washington, DC——March 11, 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) demonstrated after the Washington Summit in support of Iran’s uprising for a democratic and free Republic.
London—March 11, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and MEK Supporters Rally to Support the Iran Revolution
London, England—March 11, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a rally in Trafalgar square and expressed solidarity with the nationwide Iranian uprising against the mullahs’ regime.
Stockholm, Sweden—March 11, 2023: MEK Supporters Rally to Support the Iran Revolution
Stockholm, Sweden—March 11, 2023: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a rally in front of the Swedish Parliament and expressed solidarity with the nationwide Iran protests.
Also, read Iran News in Brief – March 13, 2023
