The Iranian Uprising in Brief - Day 175
- Days: 175
- Demonstrations: 282 cities
- Deaths: 750+ estimated dead, 664 identified by MEK
- Detentions: 30,000
On Thursday 9 March, the nationwide uprising in Iran marked its 175th day after women in different cities of Iran, joined by others, celebrated International Women's Day by taking to the streets to protest against the regime.
In a decisive response to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his president Ebrahim Raissi on International Women's Day, the poisoning of schoolgirls and the crackdown on teachers, resistance units affiliated with the PMOI took to the streets to protest against the crackdown.
10 mars - Fuladshahr, centre de l'#Iran
— hamid enayat (@h_enayat) March 10, 2023
Funérailles de Mohsen Shojaei. Shojaei a été arrêté pendant les funérailles d'un des martyrs des protestations iraniennes. Il a été torturé à mort par les autorités pénitentiaires. pic.twitter.com/dXcZ0F9xME
Resistance units also burned down the bases of the IRGC and its Basij units in the cities of Islamabad and Hamedan in western Iran, Shahriar in western Tehran, Bandar Azali in northern Iran, Qom in central Iran and the Basij intelligence headquarters in the southern city of Shiraz.
In addition, reliable information obtained by the NCRI from within the Iranian regime revealed the main elements of a plan to deal with any unrest that might occur during Iran's Fire Festival, the last Tuesday of the Iranian month of Esfand, which precedes the Iranian New Year, Nowrouz, on March 21. The plan has been sent to the country's law enforcement agencies for implementation and stresses that the fire festival should not be celebrated in open spaces, squares or streets.
10 mars - Zahedan, sud-est de l'#Iran
— hamid enayat (@h_enayat) March 10, 2023
un enfant mets en feu, la photo de Ruhollah Khomeini, fondateur du régime iranien.#IranRevoIution #IranRevolution2023 pic.twitter.com/QcWAq3xbCN
In Tehran's Narmak and Sattarkhan districts and in the city of Rasht, people demonstrated and chanted anti-regime slogans, including "Death to the dictator!" "Basij and IRGC, you are our ISIS!"
In Tehran, regime authorities deployed riot police who fired tear gas and grenades to disperse the protesters.
In the town of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, residents chanted "Death to the dictator".
In Rudsar, in northern Iran, protesters burned a poster of the deposed head of the IRGC's Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani.
Finally, yesterday, Resolution 100, entitled "Supporting the Aspirations of the Iranian People for a Democratic, Secular, and Non-Nuclear Republic of Iran and Condemning the Iranian Government's Human Rights Violations and State Terrorism", signed by 225 bipartisan members (an absolute majority) of the US House of Representatives, was introduced by Representative Tom McClintock, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, and 11 of his colleagues. NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi addressed the conference in a video message.