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UPDATE: 8:38 PM CET
Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 55
Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran
After multiple failed attempts at prevention, intimidation, counterdemonstration, suppression, and shock therapy by the regime’s security apparatus, these are now the buzzwords the establishment is using to test the waters with the populace at a time when young men and women in the streets are not listening to anyone representing the regime.
Pundits in the regime are opining that a return to the situation before the murder of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman, by ‘morality police’ in mid-September is impossible. The regime insiders, increasingly engaged in navel-gazing over the calamitous turn of events in Iran for the establishment, are at most pondering a relaxation of “morality police” enforcement, while the protesters are increasingly targeting the whole political system based on religious rule and Ali Khamenei’s dictatorship.
While all this means that part of the Iranian regime, not favored by Khamenei, is advising negligible and inconsequential ‘reforms’ in the system, the youth and women and revolutionaries in the streets have shown during the past seven weeks that they are not prepared to settle for anything short of total downfall of this system and regime change.
Today, strikes continued throughout Iran, particularly in Sistan and Baluchistan and Kurdistan province, and parts of Tehran, Mashhad, and other cities.
November 9 – Mahabad, northwest #Iran
Locals are on strike and continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 55th day of the uprising and in support of the people of Zahedan and Sistan & Baluchestan Province.#IranRevolution#اعتصابات_سراسریpic.twitter.com/DGjqOJZyK2— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 9, 2022
University and high school students today demonstrated in solidarity with the 40th day of bloody Friday in Zahedan in Sistan and Baluchistan. They once again made it known that they are going to continue to call for “Death to Khamenei” as long as this regime is in place. Tabriz students chanted, “With or without the hijab, onwards to a revolution!” Others demonstrated at Kermanshah Razi University, Tehran University of Science & Culture, Tehran Pars Higher Education Institute of Art & Architecture,
November 9 – Tabriz, northwest #Iran
Students of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism – Tabriz Islamic Art University chanting:
"With or without the hijab, we're heading for a revolution!"#IranRevolution#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/aF8FJP0K3v— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 9, 2022
Protesters were out in Tehran in Sattarkhan district, Revolution Street, Sa’adatabad district, Haft Howz area, and also in Shiraz and other cities.
November 9 – Tehran, #Iran
Locals in the capital's Haft Howz district are continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 55th night of the uprising.#IranRevolution2022#آزادی_آزادی_آزادیpic.twitter.com/on8zbzyIH2— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 9, 2022
On Wednesday morning, locals in the cities of Sanandaj, Saqqez, Baneh, Kermanshah, and others in Iran’s Kurdish areas merchants and storeowners closed their shops and joined the expanding general strike in solidarity with the nationwide uprising and in protest of the regime’s brutal crackdown throughout the country, especially against the Baluchi community in Sistan & Baluchistan Province of southeast Iran and Kurdish provinces in the western and northwest areas of the country.
People in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, took to the streets to protest Wednesday. They set up roadblocks and took control of their streets, according to local activists.
Eyewitness reports from Resistance Units
Tehran – A report from several days ago from a resistance unit in Tehran states:
Tehran’s Ekbatan was filled with crowds demonstrating and chanting, “This is a year of sacrifice, Seyed Ali will be toppled,” “IRGC, you are ISIS, until when will you kill children?” Protesters gathered on sidewalks and chanted “Death to the dictator,” and the crowd was large and mostly women. A mullah and several Basij militiamen came with loudspeakers and shouted death threats toward the protesters. One of the women stood up and shouted against Khamenei (the regime’s leader). The protesters supported her with “Death to Khamenei, and death to the dictator.” As the protest grew, the mullah and Basiji militiamen became very apprehensive and fled.
UPDATE: 3:07 PM CET
Iran Parliament’s Public Session Reflects Regime’s Desperation
During today’s public session at the regime’s parliament, the handpicked MPs acknowledged the population’s hatred toward the regime and reflected the fear of the entire ruling theocracy of the ongoing uprising.
“This is a false claim that there is no freedom. If there was no freedom, how could you speak freely every week against the system?” MP Mohammad Taghi Naghdali, as quoted by Iran’s state TV.
“Today, we are responsible for decreasing society’s restiveness. Sadly, a wrong opinion is dominant in our society, that Majlis [parliament] is against people. This has been wrongly circulating on social media,” MP Hassan Mohammad Yari said during today’s public session.
Following his remarks endorsing the regime’s massacre in Sistan and Baluchistan province in response to another MP, Abdolreza Mesri, the parliament deputy speaker, reversed himself. While he was filmed blatantly saying the “rioters should be seriously dealt with,” Mesri accused foreign countries of mispresenting his words! “I made some remarks during the public session on Sunday. The enemy twisted the truth and showed something else. We consider Baluchestan, Kurdistan, and Azarbaijan as parts of the county and defend our people,” Mesri said, according to Iran’s state TV on November 9.
UPDATE: 8:30 AM CET
Live Report: Iran’s Protests Continue Well Into the Eighth Week
Iran’s nationwide protests continue on Tuesday as the unrest in numerous cities marks the movement’s 54th day. Kurdish cities witnessed relentless protests throughout the day on Monday along with college and high school students in various parts of the country boycotting their classes and/or taking to the streets in anti-regime protests.
Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 218 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 368 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
School Principal Attacks a Girl Student, Sends Her Away in an Ambulance
A school principal attacks a girl student and sends her away in an ambulance. As the Iran uprising is well into its 8th week, not only the regime’s security forces but also their agents and operatives elsewhere are becoming more brutal toward protesters.
News on social media indicates that the principal of Armineh Mosalla Nejad girls’ high school in Shahr-e Rey violently reacted to the protest of students, pushing, and beating one of the girls and then calling an ambulance to take her away. The ambulance did not have a license plate according to eyewitnesses and available footage.
Iran: MPs Vote for Executions; Prisoners Say No More– Day 54
On Tuesday, November 8, 2022, protests continued across Iran despite the regime’s cruel suppression, including 227 regime MPs’ call for executing detained protesters on November 6. They blamed thousands of protesters for self-defending while security forces have murdered hundreds of citizens on the streets alone.
Furthermore, authorities in Torbat-e Jam Prison, Razavi Khorasan province, tried to transfer two inmates for execution today early morning. However, other prisoners resisted prison guards to spare their cellmates’ lives. Authorities severely suppressed prisoners, set several parts of the prison ablaze, and transferred more than 20 prisoners to Mashhad Prison.
Shooting To Kill, an Unretouched Image of Iran Regime
The state security forces and plainclothes agents in Iran have been using brute force and obvious violence against protesters on the streets of Iran since September 17, 2022.
The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) commander has claimed that they only use non-lethal weapons to contain the protests. But evidence shows extra levels of violence against the people and protesters. The goal is not to control the people but totally aimed at killing them. On several occasions, non-lethal weapons such as batons have been used so radically that it has killed protesters.
Geneva, November 5, 2022: Iranian Resistance Supporters Demonstration in Support of the Iran Protests
Geneva, November 5, 2022: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) demonstrated in front of the UN headquarters to express solidarity with the nationwide Iran Protests and political prisoners.
Berlin—November 6, 2022: Iranian Resistance Supporters Continue to Rally in Front of the Bundestag in Support of the Iran Protests—Day 18
Berlin—November 6, 2022: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) continue to sit-in and rally in front of the Bundestag in solidarity with the Iranian people’s uprising and political prisoners.
Also, read Iran News in Brief – November 8, 2022