Iran uprising at a glance, latest developments

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The nationwide uprising has marked its 89th day. People started gathering in Mashhad to hold a ceremony for Majidreza Rahnavard. The authorities sent security forces to the site, blocked roads and even closed the door of a local mosque where people wanted to hold their ceremony. Nevertheless, people defied them and chanted: "So many years of crimes! Death to the mullahs' regime!".

The people, gathered to hold a ceremony for Rahnavard, clashed with the regime's security forces and began chanting anti-government slogans. Elsewhere in the city, students at Az-Zahra University chanted, "They took our Majidreza and brought her corpse back!"

In the capital, Tehran, students at Sureh University boycotted their classes and continued nationwide protests against the regime on the 89th day of the uprising. 

Students from the science and research branch of Tehran's Islamic Azad University also held a rally today, condemning the regime's criminal executions. And in the capital's Sa'adat-Abad, Ziba Shahr and Tehranpars districts, protesters chanted "Death to the dictator" and "Death to the child-killing regime". 

In Shiraz, in south-central Iran, high school students staged a demonstration chanting slogans against the regime.  

In the city of Shush, in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan, residents gathered to hold a ceremony in honour of Abbas Mansouri, a protester who reportedly committed suicide after being released from prison where he was subjected to severe torture.

In Tabriz, northwestern Iran, students from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences protested against the regime's unjust death sentences and prison terms against recently arrested protesters.

Schoolgirls from the city of Kamyaran in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan took to the streets to protest and chant: "Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!" High school students in Ahvaz also held similar protest rallies, chanting, "You are vile and lecherous. I am a free-thinking woman."

In Saqqez, Kurdistan province, Mahsa Amini's hometown, protesters were again on the streets chanting "Death to the dictator!"

In Javanrud, in western Iran, people gathered outside the governor's office to demand the release of a local religious figure.