Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 237th day on Wednesday following a busy day of protests by people from different walks of life in Iran, especially teachers in more than ten cities where they held large gatherings for their rights. Iran’s teachers are joining an escalating wave of nationwide rallies, seen also on Tuesday by retirees of the country’s telecom industry. These protests, gatherings, rallies, marches, and demonstrations are expanding despite the regime’s recent surge in executions, sending at least 67 to the gallows in less than ten days.
People throughout Iran continue to specifically hold the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij units, alongside other security units that are on the ground suppressing the peaceful demonstrators.
Protests in Iran have, to this day, expanded to at least 282 cities. Over 750 people have been killed, and more than 30,000 are arrested by the regime’s forces, according to sources of Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 675 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.
The family members of these victims rallied outside Ghezel Hesar Prison, began protesting the executions, and clashed with the regime’s security forces. Regime security forces responded with tear gas, bird shots, and using paintball rounds to target the protesting family members who were throwing stones at the security units. One of the protesting family members was beaten by the security forces using batons and is currently in critical condition at a nearby hospital.
Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi hailed the courageous families who protested the regime’s vicious executions and emphasized that the “religious fascism that rules Iran cannot escape its inevitable demise.”
Locals in the Chitgar district of Tehran are chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Down with the IRGC!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Down with the child-killing regime!”
Pensioners and retirees are among the worst-hit segments of Iran’s society. They depend on government stipends to make ends meet, but the regime has refused to increase their pensions in correspondence with growing inflation and the depreciation of the national currency.
The government has long provided many hollow promises of increasing pensions. It was also supposed to settle unpaid pensions remaining from previous years. So far, it has yet to deliver on both demands.
Teachers in the town of Harsin in Kermanshah Province, western Iran, were holding a gathering on Tuesday and protesting their poor economic circumstances and low paychecks. Teachers in many other cities across the country were also in the streets in similar protest rallies, including Sanandaj, Ahvaz, Arak, Shush, Eslamabad-e Gharb, Kermanshah, Torbat-e Heydariyeh, Qazvin, Takestan, Jolfa, Isfahan, Rasht, Abdanan, Bojnurd, Babol, Yasuj, and Hamadan, among others.
Regime security forces in Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan, attacked a peaceful gathering of local teachers. Two of the teachers in the gathering were abducted, and the city has been militarized, according to local activists.
Regime operatives launched a chemical gas attack targeting the Rezvan High School in Qom, central Iran, on Tuesday. This is the second time this school has come under such an attack, according to local activists.
The protests in Iran began following the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the city of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, who traveled to Tehran with her family, was arrested on Tuesday, September 13th, at the entry of Haqqani Highway by the regime’s so-called “Guidance Patrol” and transferred to the “Moral Security” agency.
