Three days of escalating unrest in Iran promising to grow
Report by PMOI/MEK
Iran, Aug. 3, 2018 - Thursday marked the
third consecutive day of protests sweeping cities across Iran.
Beginning earlier in the day in Shiraz and
the New Shapur district of Isfahan, this wave quickly spread to other cities
such as Shahin Shahr, Najaf Abad, Karaj, Rasht, Mashhad and others.
While poor living conditions and economicdifficulties may have been the first causes of the nationwide revolts, the
protesters are quickly raising the stakes and targeting the very top of the
regime in their slogans. Many cities, especially Isfahan and Karaj, were scenes
of intense skirmishes.
“Death to the dictator” and “Death to
Khamenei” are now becoming very common slogans among protesters.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect ofthe National Council of Resistance of Iran, hailed the protesters of Isfahan
for their fearless revolt and heralded the end of the mullahs’ tyranny.
Earlier today, the Islamic Republic News
Agency (IRNA) reported that the police has prevented protests from rallying in
Isfahan. Meanwhile, local reports and videos posted on social media show
protesters clashing with security forces. In Shiraz, protesters were chanting
“Repression has no effect” and calling off the regime for spending the
country’s wealth on its foreign interventions. “Not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life
for Iran,” the protesters chanted, a criticism of the regime’s costly meddling in
the countries of the Middle East region.
In recent weeks, different cities of Iran
have seen protests by citizens who are fed up with the regime’s corruption, the
plunging currency value, unemployment and high prices. But economic woes have
triggered the protests, most demonstrations have quickly turned into
anti-regime protests with slogans calling for the overthrow of the regime in
its entirety.
Iranian opposition NCRI President Maryam
Rajavi said in her latest statement:
"People in different cities came out
onto the streets today, Thursday, August 2, 2018, chanting, “death to the
dictator,” “cannons, tanks and machine guns are no longer effective, the
mullahs must be killed,” and “today is the month of blood, Khamenei will be
overthrown.”
Rebellious cities are joining ranks one
after the other. The cry by people who yearn for freedom is growing louder and
the uprising is spreading by the minute."
The Iranian regime’s repressive units
resort to firing teargas, birdshots and even blank cartridges in their quest to
quell the growing protests and uprising. Despite the fact that a number of
protesters were wounded and arrested, the brave people of Iran are showing more
measures of unity and perseverance in the face of the regime’s crackdown.
No power can stand in the way of a nation
united.
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