Dec 27, 2022
Iran Revolution Dawns and The Dusk of the Clerical Theocracy Falls
Originally published at the NCRI website
Saturday, December 24, 2022: Iran’s nationwide protests have persisted for 100 consecutive days, and with no socio-economic or political resolutions in sight, there is no easing of the upheaval in the forecast.
Initially sparked following the tragic death of Mahsa Amini in the morality police custody, protests soon morphed into what many consider a revolution, with people resisting the regime’s brutal oppression.
The Iranian people’s unwavering determination to topple the regime at any cost, and the role of Iran’s organized opposition as the driving force behind the uprising, have indeed frustrated the security forces. Bereft of any solution to quell society and control the uprising, authorities and state-run media continue their “victory” rhetoric.
“The riots have ended in the country,” the state-run Iran daily, the government’s official newspaper, claimed on December 24. “The bitter autumn of 2022 has ended without the [dissidents] achieving much success,” the state-run Vatan-e Emrooz daily also wrote in this regard on December 22.
In addition, the Javan newspaper, an outlet linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), promised security forces of the “riots’ failure.” It is worth noting that IRGC commander-in-chief, Hossein Salami, has repeatedly boasted about successfully “wrapping up” protests, only to see another round of demonstrations erupt, sometimes hours after his remarks.
Regardless of the officials’ efforts to pull the wool over their dispirited forces’ eyes, they finally get the short end of the stick, as the stubborn facts on the ground remove any doubt about the regime’s dark future as the uprising continues.
On Friday, December 23, and Saturday, December 24, alone, reports tallied by the Iranian opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), indicate there have been dozens of anti-regime demonstrations across Iran. Besides, defiant youth in several cities, such as Babol, Isfahan, Saveh, and Tabriz, torched the regime’s symbols and the bases of the IRGC paramilitary Basij.
On Saturday, December 24, several districts in Tehran and Shiraz witnessed anti-regime protests, with people chanting slogans such as “Death to the dictator” and “Death to Khamenei,” denouncing the regime and its vicious supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
Brave Baluchi citizens in Sistan and Baluchestan province continued their protests on Friday, with women demonstrating an increasingly more vivid contribution. These brave women, clad in black chadors, chanted: “With or without veiling, onward toward the revolution,” thereby laying to rest the regime’s efforts to disparage the Iranian women’s demands to abolish mandatory veiling.
Enraged, the state-run ‘Iran daily’ tried to portray these women as foreign agents. “A few women chanted norm-breaking slogans. These hired protesters are trying to increase the feminine presence in protests in Zahedan.”
After four months of brutality, killing over 750 innocent protesters and arresting many more, Iran’s dictator Khamenei finds himself and his regime in a lethal deadlock. The situation has reached a point where authorities and the tightly controlled state media warn their ilk about their ominous future as the revolution persists.
Originally published at http://freedomstarblog.wordpress.com on December 27, 2022.
