IRANIAN PEOPLE WANT REGIME CHANGE

By INU Staff

INU - The grassroots activists seeking to overthrow the malign regime in Iran have been emboldened by new US sanctions that followed Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Many Iranians, both living in Iran and as part of the Iranian diaspora, took to Twitter using the hashtag #FreeIran2018 to declare support for the US sanctions and report on protests and acts of civil disobedience, which are part of the ongoing people’s uprising that began in December 2017.

On Wednesday, May 30, Javad Hamida‏ wrote: “I am an Iranian, And I welcome the sanctions against the tortuous and oppressive organs of the Iranian people, By the US government.”

Maryam Rajavi,‏ president of the Iranian Resistance, explained that the Iranian Regime cannot survive against the will of its people much longer.

She wrote: “[The] mullahs’ religious fascism in Iran is fleeting, devoid of any future. The people of Iran are seeking the overthrow of the entire Velayat-e Faqih regime,”
Rebellion

Across Iran, there are many thousands of people rebelling against the malign mullahs on a daily basis. Here are just a few examples of their civil disobedience from the past two weeks.

Activists set fire to a picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the streets of Zarrin-Shahr on Thursday and uploaded a video of the act to the internet, with the camera operator saying “Dictator, say hello to your end”.

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IRANIAN PEOPLE WANT REGIME CHANGE

By INU Staff

INU - The grassroots activists seeking to overthrow the malign regime in Iran have been emboldened by new US sanctions that followed Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Many Iranians, both living in Iran and as part of the Iranian diaspora, took to Twitter using the hashtag #FreeIran2018 to declare support for the US sanctions and report on protests and acts of civil disobedience, which are part of the ongoing people’s uprising that began in December 2017.

On Wednesday, May 30, Javad Hamida‏ wrote: “I am an Iranian, And I welcome the sanctions against the tortuous and oppressive organs of the Iranian people, By the US government.”

Maryam Rajavi,‏ president of the Iranian Resistance, explained that the Iranian Regime cannot survive against the will of its people much longer.

She wrote: “[The] mullahs’ religious fascism in Iran is fleeting, devoid of any future. The people of Iran are seeking the overthrow of the entire Velayat-e  regime,”
Rebellion

Across Iran, there are many thousands of people rebelling against the malign mullahs on a daily basis. Here are just a few examples of their civil disobedience from the past two weeks.

Activists set fire to a picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the streets of Zarrin-Shahr on Thursday and uploaded a video of the act to the internet, with the camera operator saying “Dictator, say hello to your end”.

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New protests erupt across cities and towns in Iran

Protests have erupted once again in scores of Iranian cities and towns on Thursday, according to the network of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK). 

According to the MEK Young people chanted “death to the dictator” and “death to Khamenei” in Isfahan while people gathered in Enghelab (revolution) Square, and Azadi (freedom) square in the western city of Sanandaj and chanted “death to dictator.”

Protesters clashed with State Security Forces (SSF) and set an SSF kiosk on fire, the MEK said.

Authorities tried to disrupt the Internet connection in the city but clashes continued. Water cannons to disperse the crowd in Sanandaj.

In Kermanshah a woman reportedly started the protests. “Death to Khamenei” was chanted when plain-clothed security officers began arresting protesters.

Anti-riot forces who arrested 7 protesters in Kermanshah, were overrun by protesters forcing them to release the arrested, the MEK said.

In Tuyserkan at Hamedan province, Zarin Shahr at Isfahan province and Rasht in northern Iran clashes between people and security forces also erupted.

Despite the cold weather in Zarin Shahr and heavy presence of security forces, an anti-regime gathering took place at the main mosque of Masjed Azam where people chanted “Death to Khomeini, death to Khamenei”.

Iran; demonstration in 7 cities, people chant 'Death to the Dictator'

Demonstrators in Isfahan set a IRGC motorcycle a blaze

Iran, February 1, 2018 – Groups of brave protesters in 7 major cities including Tehran, Isfahan, Sanandaj, Rasht, Kermanshah, Zarrin- and  in addition to other towns demonstrated on Thursday, February 1, chanting 'Death to Khamenei', referring to Iran's Supreme leader, and 'Death to the Dictator.' There were clashes reported in some of these cities between the protesters and the State Security force. 
Demonstrators in Isfahan said that some protesters set fire to the security forces' motorcycles. 
MEK sources inside Iran says that the unrest is continued and we will bring you further reports as we get them. 

Hunger Striking Political Prisoner Severely Beaten And Transferred To Greater Tehran Prison

On Monday, January 29, political prisoner Soheil Arabi was transferred to the Greater Tehran Prison and was severely beaten.
According to an informed source, on January 28, Soheil Arabi was summoned and was then transferred to the quarantine in Evin Prison’s Section 1.
“He was then summoned again and told that he would be transferred to Rajaie Shahr Prison. But at noon, instead of being taken to Rajaie Shahr, he was taken to the Greater Tehran Prions,” the source said. 

“When they reached the prison at 15:30, prison officials along with 10-12 soldiers tore off his clothes and severely beat him. The guards used batons and kicked him in his back, face and leg continuously with their boots. Soheil Arabi’s face, nose and feet were injured and his whole body was bruised,” the source added. 

After the beatings, prison authorities kept Soheil Arabi without clothes in the prison courtyard to force him to give his consent to those that beat him.
“Don’t think that this is Evin Prison and you aunties house!” a prison official taunted him.
“This is the end of the world and hell! Don’t think that because you’re on hunger strike, your voice will be heard!” he told him.

Iran: Woman commits suicide with her toddler

A mother hugged her toddler and jumped off a building in Shahr-e , capital of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province in south central Iran. ‌Both died instantly.

The incident happened on Thursday, November 2, 2017, after the 43-year-old woman walked up a half-built building on Bahonar Street of Shahr-e Kord and threw herself and her 14-month-old child off the building. She committed suicide reportedly in protest to poverty and hunger.

n Saturday, I joined a one-day symbolic hunger strike in Stockholm alongside dozens of other Iranians living in European countries.

Mohammad Gharaee is a former political prisoner and joins one-day symbolic hunger strike in Stockholm.

Our aim was to draw urgent international attention to the plight of numerous Iranian political prisoners who have been on hunger strike now for over three weeks over the appalling abuses they are facing at the hands of the religious dictatorship.
On July 30, wardens in Iran’s notorious Rajai-Shahr Prison raided the ward for political prisoners, beating dozens of defenceless oppositions activists and confiscating their belongings. The inmates, some of whom are vocal supporters of the main democratic opposition People’s Mojahedin (PMOI or MEK), were subsequently transferred to an isolated high-security section of this prison which is equipped with CCTV. More than 60 surveillance devices and 40 closed-circuit cameras have been installed there to prevent any leakage of reports to the outside. All openings and windows have been covered and sealed with metal sheets.

ITUC Calls for Immediate Release of Iranian Labor Prisoner

Reza Shahabi, a member of the board of directors of Iran

IRAN: 22 August 2017-- International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) General Secretary Sharan Burrow, has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Reza Shahabi, a member of the board of directors of Iran’s Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (UWTSBC).

Burrow, while referring to what she has described as years of torture and inappropriate treatment of Shahabi behind bars, reiterated, “[Reza] the labor rights activist was on medical furlough but Tehran’s prosecutor-general refused to extend his parole.”

According to the letter, written to Iran regime's President Hassan Rouhani, Reza Shahabi was forced to return to the Rajai Shahr (Gohardasht) prison in Karaj, where he found that the time he spent on medical leave was considered as “absence” and his jail term has been extended for another 968 days.

Brutal Shootings by Iran’s Security Forces Leave Two Dead, Including a Young Woman

Two recent shootings in Iran left two dead and once again brought the cruelness of the country’s security forces to light.

A 46-year-old man identified as Asghar Nahvipour was shot and killed last Saturday when an officer opened fire at point-blank range. The victim was shot in Iran’s Shahr-e-rey metro station, south of Tehran.

Reports indicate the man protested a government mullah “harassing a number of young women under the bogus pretext of improper hijab.” He was heard yelling, “We don’t want these mullahs. We don’t want this Islam. What kind of a country is this? What kind of Islam is this?”

The shooting was captured on tape and posted extensively on the web. Nahvipour is seen yelling while a turban is in his hands. Seconds later, a member of the security forces shoots him with an assault rifle.

Iranian Political Prisoner Ali Moezzi Repeatedly Issued More Prison Time After Completing Sentences

July 5, 2017– Iranian judicial authorities are refusing to free an elderly political prisoner who was incarcerated for visiting close family members that are members of a opposition group.
Political prisoner Ali Moezzi,  65-years old who has been mostly without legal counsel since his arrest in 2008, has been transferred to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary despite completing his sentence on May 22, 2017 and being in poor health.

He is also facing more prison time.
“Ali’s sons are members of the Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization (MEK) and were based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq,” Mohammad Moezzi told CHRI.

“In 2008, Ali went to Iraq to see them and when he came back he was charged with ‘assembly and collusion against national security’ and given a two-year prison sentence and a suspended three-year sentence by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court,” he added.

Continued Mohammad Moezzi: “He was freed in November 2010, but six months later he was arrested again for attending the funeral of a former cellmate, Ali Saremi, who had been executed, and sentenced to a year in prison for ‘propaganda against the state.’ They also enforced his previous three-year suspended sentence. In May 2016, it was the same story. He was close to being freed, but instead was tried for ‘propaganda against the state’ and sentenced to another year in prison.”

Ali Moezzi has been without legal counsel for most of his imprisonment. In 2008, he was briefly represented by human rights lawyer Giti Pourfazel. Later on, Judge Abolqasem Salavati refused to allow attorney Amir Salar Davoudi to represent him.

“Now we are in 2017 and my brother was supposed to go free in May, but they are not releasing him,” Mohammad Moezzi told CHRI. “The authorities say they filed new charges against him and there were two court dates, but my brother refused to appear because they had chained his hands and feet.”

“Ali’s interrogator told him, ‘We will not let you go free,’ but we really didn’t imagine they would keep filing fake charges against him,” he added. “Of course, my brother has signed (political) statements while in prison and protested against the execution of his cellmates. They have used these as excuses to keep him in prison.”

The ailing political prisoner, who was treated for bladder cancer in 2011 and suffers from pains in his kidney and urinary tract, was moved from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary on May 1, 2017.

“The prison is in poor condition,” Mohammad Moezi told CHRI. “It’s a very bad place in terms of sanitation and facilities and he doesn’t have a bed.”
“I don’t know why they sent him there because there’s no history of political prisoners being kept there,” he added.