Demonstrators chanted, “Death to Khamenei, damn with Khomeini,” “Death to the Supreme Leader after many long years of crimes,” “Death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or the Leader (Khamenei),” “Shame on Khamenei, let go of the country,” “We are hungry, Khamenei is a criminal,” “Poverty, corruption, high prices, onward to overthrow,” and “Death to the informant, death to Basiji, death to IRGC.”
They are voicing their demands as the regime continues to deny them basic human rights and the Iranian economy suffers from state corruption.
Protests in Iran have now spread to at least 282 cities. According to sources from the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the regime’s forces have killed over 750 people and arrested over 30,000. The MEK has released the names of 637 protesters who were killed.
While making policy recommendations to EU leaders, urging them to include the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on the list of terrorist organizations and to support the Iranian people and their organized Resistance.
As calls to outlaw the IRGC grow in Europe, regime officials express fear and rant about the Iranian opposition, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and its role in mobilizing the world against Tehran’s godfather of terrorism.
Human rights organizations have spoken of sham trials, far from the fundamental principles of the rule of law, that these men and many other protesters have faced.
Protest rallies by laborers and investors, as well as brave locals, were held in various parts of Tehran and Karaj, demanding their rights and opposing the mullahs’ dictatorship.
The Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij forces are primarily responsible for this repression. Iran has several minority groups, the majority of which are concentrated in provinces near the country’s borders. Iranian Arabs live near the Iraqi border, Kurds in the northwest, known as Iranian Kurdistan, and Baluchis in the south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
MEPs overwhelmingly supported that designation a day earlier, with only nine votes against it 598. Following multiple appeals from European Union member states such as Germany, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also expressed explicit support for sanctioning and prohibiting the IRGC as a terrorist organization.
The European Parliament passed a resolution urging the European Union to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. This unprecedented action, combined with growing calls in the green continent, where appeasement policy has been dominant for years, has caused significant upheaval in the regime.
