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UPDATE: 10:00 PM CET
Treasury Targets Network Supporting Iranian Petrochemical and Petroleum Sales
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 13 companies in multiple jurisdictions facilitating the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian petrochemicals and petroleum products to buyers in East Asia on behalf of sanctioned Iranian petrochemical brokers Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industry Commercial Co. (PGPICC) and Triliance Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (Triliance), as well as the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and its marketing arm, Naftiran Intertrade Company Ltd. (NICO). Today’s action, the fifth round of designations targeting Iran’s illicit petroleum and petrochemical trade since June 2022, demonstrates our determination to target sanction evasion efforts.
UPDATE: 9:30 PM CET
Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 63
Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran
Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 7 PM CET
- Days: 63
- Protests: 231 cities
- Fatalities: 600+ estimated deaths, 427 identified by MEK, over 50 teenagers
- Detentions: 30,000+
November 17 – Sanandaj, western #Iran
More footage of today's massive rally marking the 40th day of the killing of protesters by the regime's security forces.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/RaWoeryddv— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 17, 2022
November 17 – Bukan, northwest #Iran
Many regime-associated buildings, including stores owned by the IRGC, have been set on fire, according to local activists.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/WJ6GTtTA87— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 17, 2022
November 17 – Masal, northern #Iran
Protesters chanting: "For each person killed another one thousand will rise up!"#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/jAVPFJmOTy— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 17, 2022
Iran’s nationwide uprising is marking its 63rd day, and the third day of a national strike commemorating the Bloody November uprising of 2019. Today, people from all walks of life continued their protests through strikes, rallies, gatherings, and attacks against Ali Khamenei’s regime in its entirety.
November 17 – Semirom, #Iran
Locals continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 63rd night of the uprising.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/RICkGkC3og— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 17, 2022
November 17 – Masal, northern #Iran
Protesters chanting: "To the Basij & IRGC members: You are our ISIS!"#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/BWkRgrtISK— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 17, 2022
As regime security forces escalated their deadly crackdown against the Iranian people. With the number of killed protesters climbing, the people are also upping the ante with bold and ferocious attacks on government offices as well as any official linked to the state. The IRGC and paramilitary Basij sites have been ransacked and torched in multiple cities during the past few days and today. Protesters have fended off increasingly lethal attacks by security units and forced them to flee while torching their vehicles and motorcycles. Security buildings in many cities across the country, especially in Kurdish regions, have fallen into protesters’ hands. Video clips show that today, an IRGC Colonel and several other SSF personnel and plainclothes agents were punished in beatings by angry protesters.
November 17 – Eyvanekey, east of Tehran, #Iran
Protesters set ablaze a branch of the regime's "Bank Keshavarzi Iran."#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/ciGLofj1l8— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 17, 2022
Initial reports on Thursday indicated the commercial and industrial sectors, including powerful merchants in the traditional bazaars of Iran expanding their strikes for a third consecutive day in Tehran and at least 15 other cities. The famous bazaars of Tehran, Isfahan, and Tabriz were all closed in a general shutdown protesting the brutal crackdown. Other cities where strikes have been reported included Ilam, Rask, Surak, Qazvin, Bandar Abbas, Gorgan, Kamyaran, Marivan, Javanrud, Ravansar, and Khorramabad.
November 17 – Tehran, #Iran
Naziabad district
Protesters chanting:
"Death to Khamenei!"
"Death to the dictator!"#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبرpic.twitter.com/ibpMXZx1i1— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 17, 2022
November 17 – Masal, northern #Iran
Protesters engaged in a confrontation with the regime's security forces that launched an attack.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/PIO5fSplkN— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 17, 2022
Huge demonstrations in Sanandaj and Bukan in the early hours of Thursday forced security forces to city fringes. Citizens chanted slogans against the regime and overtook government centers. Activists in Bukan reported that protesters are in the streets establishing roadblocks and taking control of their districts as unrest continued in this city of northwest Iran. Security forces opened fire on protesters and locals reported that at least one person has been killed. Protesters in Sanandaj set up roadblocks and clashed with security forces.
November 17 – Bukan, northwest #Iran
Massive crowd of locals continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 63rd night of the uprising.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/Kc92yQKm3I— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 17, 2022
- Tehran, Shahrak-e Gharb district – Protesters chanted: “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
- Tehran, Gisha district – Crowds defied security forces and chanted “Death to Dictator”
- Tehran, Sadeghiyeh Metro Station – Demonstrators rallied in front of the metro station.
- Tehran, City Theater Metro Station – Protesters chanted: “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
- Tehran, Narmak district – Protesters chanted: “This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”, “For all these years of crimes, death to the mullahs’ regime!”
- Tehran, Ekbatan district – Severe crackdowns were reported by state uniformed and plainclothes forces and yet the people remained resistant.
- Eyvanekey, east of Tehran – Locals continued the nationwide protests against the regime on the 63rd night of the uprising.
- Mashhad, northeast Iran – Protesters chanted: “Death to the dictator!”
- Arak, central Iran – Demonstrators chanted against the regime.
- Shiraz, south-central Iran – Locals in Gouyom district held a ceremony in memory of Amir Alvandi, fallen in the Nov 2019 uprising. They’re chanted: “Mullahs must get lost!”
- Masal, northern Iran – Protesters engaged in a confrontation with the security forces that launched an attack.
- Bukan, northwest Iran – More footage of protesters taking over the regime’s local municipality office on the 63rd day of the uprising.
- Bukan, northwest Iran – Protesters set ablaze a local regime-linked building, according to activists.
- Bukan, northwest Iran – Many regime-associated buildings, including stores owned by the IRGC, have been set on fire, according to local activists.
- Saqqez, western Iran – Karimabad Street was blocked and protesters were chanting: “Death to the dictator!”, “Death to Khamenei!”
- Saqqez, western Iran – Protesters set ablaze the Water Dept. building used by authorities to station their security forces and cut off the locals’ water supply.
- Sanandaj, western Iran – Protesters pulled down a flag that symbolizes the regime from a building associated with the local clerical officials.
- Semirom, central Iran – Protesters set ablaze a vehicle of local agents.
NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the United Nations Security Council and the European Union to put an end to their inaction. She added that negotiating and dealing with a regime that remains in power only through massacres and crimes is a mockery of the universally recognized principles of human rights.
The @UN Security Council and European Union must end their inaction. Negotiating and dealing with a regime that survives by massacre and crimes against humanity, trample human rights principles and endanger global peace.
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) November 17, 2022
UPDATE: 1:30 PM CET
British Lawmakers Ask UK Government for Support of Iran Uprising
On November 16, at a parliamentary debate in the United Kingdom’s House of Commons, several British lawmakers from different political parties called on the UK government to support the protesters in Iran, designate the IRGC as a terrorist entity, to end the nuclear talks with the Iranian regime, to increase sanctions on Tehran and not to tolerate the activities of the regime’s agents on British soil.
UPDATE: 8:30 AM CET
69th Un Resolution Condemning Human Rights Violations in Iran
The United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution condemning the human rights violations in Iran with the majority of votes today. This is the 69th UN resolution censuring the brutal and systematic human rights abuses in Iran.
Welcoming the adoption of the resolution, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said: While the resolution reflects only a small portion of the crimes of the ruling anti-human regime in Iran, as it did not have enough time to investigate the regime’s crimes in recent weeks, it, nevertheless, makes it abundantly clear that this regime has systematically violated all recognized principles and standards of human rights.
Iran’s Uprising Continues Following the Most Intense Day of Protests as of Yet
The nationwide uprising in Iran, which marks its 62nd day on Wednesday, passed a certain milestone on Tuesday as people in dozens of cities checkered across the country marked the third anniversary of the November 2019 uprising and raised the intensity of the current uprising to new levels against the mullahs’ regime.
Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 220 cities. Over 550 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 402 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
The World Should Embrace the Change Coming to Iran
It has now been more than two months since my fellow Iranians and I took to the streets following the murder of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the regime’s “morality police.” During this time, we have continually emphasized that such fatal abuses are part of the clerical regime’s DNA and that they will not stop until that regime falls and is replaced by one that truly reflects the will of the Iranian people.
I know that I speak for millions of my compatriots when I say that we are prepared to continue our current uprising, at great personal cost, until that vision of regime change is realized.
Second Stormy Day of Protests and Strikes on Bloody November Anniversary
On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, merchants and citizens continued strikes and protests across Iran on the third anniversary of the gas demonstrations in 2019 and the regime’s bloody suppression.
- Merchants went on strike in 64 bazaars in Tehran and at least 45 cities.
- College students continued protests in at least 10 prominent universities in Tehran and other cities.
- Demonstrations and conflicts between protesters and oppressive forces continued in Tehran and dozens of cities.
London—November 15, 2022: Freedom-Loving Iranians and MEK Supporters Demonstrated in Support of the Iran Protests
London—November 15, 2022: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a demonstration supporting the Iranian people’s uprising and Its organized Resistance.
Also, read Iran News in Brief – November 16, 2022