Iran on Fire With the Passion of Liberation

Billboard featuring Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei torched in southern Iran, November 14, 2022  (photo credit: 1500tasvir)

"The report is a lie."

"[The] doors of the house of the late founder of the great revolution are open to the public."

Tasnim news agency

 

"The counter-revolutionary media tries to create turmoil by spreading lies and false information."

"The burning down of Imam Khomeini’s historic house, a place with spiritual value to Iranians, was one of those lies."

Deputy Governor, Markazi province, Behnam Nazari

 

“Hear it from me myself on how the shooting happened, so they can’t say it was by terrorists because they’re lying."

“Maybe they thought we wanted to shoot or something and they peppered the car with bullets … plainclothes forces shot my child. That is it."

Mother of ten-year-old Kian Pirfalak, city of Izeh

Video shows protesters walking by and chanting as the ancestral home of late Islamic republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is seen on fire.

Little might the Iranian morality police in Tehran imagine what their actions in arresting a young Kurdish woman in violation of the state's dress code for women would ignite. Maha Amini's interrogation and death propelled the murder of an innocent  young woman into the catalyst for an uprising that all the Ayatollahs' fearsome police and military cannot extinguish. The people have risen and their courage has been aroused in defence of human dignity and freedom.

Months of rioting in every city of Iran, that had first surfaced in Kurdish Iran, continue to protest against the theocratic reign of the Ayatollahs and the tyranny extended by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, aided by their Basij paramilitary enforcers. Thousands of protesters have been arrested, and a number have been sentenced to death for crimes against the state. Now, the ancestral home of the venerated late founder of the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has been symbolically destroyed.

The Iranian population, in particular the minority groups, are determined to topple the Islamic Republic of Iran. Activists who have been organizing protests in defiance of the threat of imprisonment and even death, whose goal is to overturn the regime, reported that protesters set fire to the former Khomeini home, now a museum. People cheered as a flash of fire sparked the building in Khomein, south of Tehran.

Under intense pressure from nationwide protests demanding an end to clerical rule since September, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called upon his military to put down the riots by all means necessary. Tear gas and live bullets are in use in response to the protests gripping the nation.  Human rights groups maintain that 326 Iranian protesters have met their death at the hands of police.

Protesters continue to defy Iran's regime, taking to the country's streets on Tuesday to mark three years since another deadly crackdown on unrest. Kaveh Shahrooz, a human rights activist, lawyer and senior fellow at the MacDonald Laurier Institute says the government's efforts to 'scare' the protesters are failing

Videos posted by 1500 Tasvir show marchers in cities in Sistan Bainchistan province where protesters chanted "Death to Khamenei" in the capital Zahedan, and demonstrators in Chabahar removing and trampling an avenue sign named after Ayatollah Khomeini. A funeral ceremony was held for seven people killed in the city of Izeh in the nation's southwest by what the regime called terrorist acts. The mother of 10-year-old Kian Pirfalak was heard naming security forces for her son's death. 

Tasnim news agency reported demonstrations by pro-government forces in the city of Mashhad where two members of the Basij military were killed days earlier. Riot police confronted a crowd at the funeral of Aylar Haghi, a medical student killed by security forces surfaced on video. According to authorities she died after falling into a a construction site excavation.

In the Kurdish-populated northwest demonstrators occupied a police station in a Friday continuation of protests. Iranian authorities say many members of the security forces have been killed by “rioters and thugs backed by foreign foes“. According to state television, 41 had died, including members of the security forces.

Fire and smoke are seen at Fuladshahr, Isfahan province, Iran in this still image from a social media video released on Friday and obtained by Reuters (Reuters)