Iran protests—June 12, 2023: People in different cities and provinces of Iran demonstrated on Monday, June 12, advocating for fundamental rights and an improved quality of life. Representing diverse social backgrounds and professions, these individuals gathered to express their collective desire for equitable treatment and the ability to support themselves and their families amidst an economy drowning in severe crises.

Retirees and pensioners of the telecom industry staged protests on Monday in various cities across Iran, expressing discontent over their meager pensions and challenging economic circumstances.

The demonstrations, following a recurring weekly pattern, took place in Tehran, Ahvaz, Zahedan, Mashhad, Arak, Tabriz, Shiraz, Dezful, Zanjan, Sanandaj, Borujerd, Bojnurd, Rasht, Zahedan, Shahrekord, Yasuj, and other locations.

In Tehran, a group of families with hemophilia patients staged a protest outside the Food and Drug Organization of the regime’s Health Ministry. They expressed frustration over the officials’ refusal to provide access to a new medication called Hemlibra, or Emicizumab, used to treat the illness.

eanwhile, municipal workers in the southwestern city of Yasuj organized a protest gathering, demanding the removal of the city’s mayor. These workers expressed concerns about unpaid wages spanning three months.

In the districts of Ekbatan and South Jannat Abad in Tehran, local residents raised their voices against the regime, chanting slogans such as “Down with Khamenei!” and “Down with the dictator!” in reference to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Brave youths and members of the MEK network of Resistance Units across Iran have launched a new campaign of anti-regime attacks and measures in the capital Tehran and at least nine other cities, responding to the mullahs’ brutal wave of executions and terrorist attacks.

These attacks and measures include:

MEK Resistance Units torched a large billboard of Khamenei and regime founder Rouhollah Khomeini on a pedestrian bridge on Tehran’s Saadi Expressway.

• Brave youths in Karaj, west of Tehran, attacked a building used by the regime to promote the mullahs’ ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism.
• MEK Resistance Units torched a large image of Khomeini in Isfahan, central Iran.
• Brave youths using Molotov cocktails attacked a so-called “Khomeini Relief Center” in Bandar Anzali, northern Iran.
• Brave youths attacked an IRGC paramilitary Basij base in Yazd, central Iran.
• MEK Resistance Units torched billboards and large posters of Khomeini and Khamenei in the cities of Tehran, Eshtehard, Shiraz, Sari, Bukan, and Nourabad.