...They hate on Tuesday, marking the third anniversary of the 2019 Bloody November protests, as anti-regime demonstrations in the country continue for the ninth consecutive week, with the number of protesters killed by Iranian security forces rises.
Nationwide protests against the government of former President Hassan Rouhani
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erupted in Iran in November of 2019, following a surge in the price of petrol. Some 1,500 protesters were killed by Iranian security forces during the November demonstrations, making it the bloodiest anti-regime movement in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Footage published on Telegram channels from the country’s western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) depicted general strikes at bazaars in the cities of Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Sanandaj, Saqqez, Tabriz, Baneh, Mahabad, Marivan, Piranshar, Oshnavieh, Divandarreh, Javanrud, Ilam, Kermanshah, among others.
"The stores and bazaars are 100 percent closed," Syko*, a citizen from Mahabad, told Rudaw English on Tuesday, "everyone is sitting at home, and there are no open places apart from pharmacies and bakeries."
The recent Iranian attacks targeting the bases of exiled Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdistan Region are also a factor driving the strikes, particularly in the west of the country.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted bases of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) near Erbil’s Koya and Komala in Sulaimani’s Zargwez with missiles and drones on Monday, killing at least two and injuring eight others.
Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups based in the Kurdistan Region have waged an on-and-off armed war against the Iranian government since 1979.
General strikes have been held across Rojhelat in the past two months, with the first i taking place two days after Mahsa (Zhina) Amini’s death while in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
Amini’s death ignited an unprecedented nationwide protest movement that has brought Iranians from all corners together to call for the overthrow of the Islamic regime.
The Iranian authorities have threatened to take more extreme approaches against the protesters if the demonstrations continue.
Videos circulated on social media on Tuesday, showing festivities between students and security forces at a university in Tehran.
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As darkness fell, more people emerged onto the streets of the capital, some of them gathering around bonfires and chanting "Death to the dictator," according to the 1500tasvir social media monitor.
"The government forces have directly opened fire in most of the cities where uprisings have taken place, such as Sanandaj, Kamyaran and Kermanshah," Hengaw told AFP.
"Two people have been killed by direct fire from government forces in Sanandaj and Kamyaran," it said, adding that it was trying to confirm reports that more protesters were killed.
"This year is the year of blood, Seyed Ali will be toppled," a large crowd chanted outside a Tehran metro station, in a video verified by AFP, referring to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...Workers downed tools and university students boycotted classes in Amini’s home province of Kurdistan, in western Iran, Hengaw said.
In the province’s flashpoint city of Sanandaj, protesters were seen burning tires in a street and chanting anti-government slogans, in other online footage.
"Woman, life, freedom" and "Man, homeland, prosperity," chanted male and female students at Islamic Azad University in the northwestern city of Tabriz, in a video published by 1500tasvir.
Striking steel workers were seen gathering in a car park in the historic city of Isfahan, in other footage shared by 1500tasvir. AFP was unable to immediately verify the videos.