Iran is boiling: 200 protests against Khamenei regime in January

Ali Ragab

Iran witnessed more than 200 anti-regime protests in the last two weeks of January, according to the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), as the protests come at a time when the corona pandemic is spreading in Iran, while the mullah regime continues to practice all repressive measures, including attacking protest rallies, arresting protesters, and shooting or imprisoning them to prevent protests.

New wave of popular protests

The protests by various segments of Iranian society have spread in recent days in an unprecedented way, including workers, farmers, students, retirees, teachers, and others. These protests entered a new phase of momentum compared to what was previously mentioned in various Iranian cities and other parts of the country in terms of quantity, slogans, continuity, spread, and diversity of groups participating.

On the other hand, protests erupted throughout Iran, from the capital Tehran to Zahedan and Iranshahr in the southeast to Tabriz in the northwest and to Ahvaz in the southwest, Isfahan, Yazd in the center, and Mashhad in northeastern Iran.

The spread of protests in different cities, as well as the participation of all segments of society in the protests, is a sign of the explosive situation against the mullah regime.

The unprecedented spread of poverty, high prices and unemployment, the outbreak of the corona pandemic, and all these disasters are the result of the policy of looting and the export of terrorism adopted by the mullah regime, which led to the exhaustion of citizens.

It has been entrenched in the minds of the Iranian people, especially the disadvantaged classes, that there is no hope for solving their problems except to flow in the squares and recover their rights by force, believing that what was taken by force can only be recovered by force.

Protests in Iran

On the morning of Monday, January 26, retirees in 17 governorates and 22 cities organized demonstrations to protest the regime’s deceptive attempts and promises to pay salaries and the high prices and unbearable living conditions.

The demonstrators chanted, “We get our rights only by protesting in the streets,” and “We will not stop protesting until we get our rights.”

The leader of the Iranian opposition abroad, PMOI President Maryam Rajavi, saluted the dispossessed retirees and those suffering throughout the country.

Rajavi added that the only way to end poverty, inflation and unemployment is the uprising and the movement to get rid of religious fascism and achieve freedom and justice in Iran.