In a bold action on Friday, May 9, 2025, in Zahedan—the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran—the courageous MEK Resistance Units raised placards and banners with slogans denouncing both the religious dictatorship and the former monarchy. Their action reaffirmed their unwavering determination to continue the struggle for Iran’s liberation from tyranny and to establish freedom, democracy, and justice across the nation.

The banners carried a range of powerful slogans and demands of the Resistance Units, including:

• We will not allow Khamenei and his agents to hide behind the mask of patriotism to escape the uprising.

• For a hundred years, the real battle in Iran has been between freedom and despotism—between the oppressed people and both the Shah and the clerics.

• Diverting this fight into a religious war—toward Quds via Karbala, Islam vs. anti-Islam, hijab vs. no hijab—only serves the clerical regime and gives it excuses to suppress.

• Khamenei seeks to cover up crimes against humanity in Bandar Abbas out of fear of public outrage and uprisings.

• The Iranian people are not fooled by the regime’s extreme concealment of the true causes behind massive explosions, nor by its falsified casualty numbers.

• Neither the execution of political prisoners nor regime threats will stop us from overthrowing it.

• Baluchestan is awake and rejects both monarchy and theocracy.

• The life of the worker, from the mine to the port, has no value for the regime of the Mul

• Monarchy and theocracy have meant a century of crime.

• We want neither a Shah nor a mullah—down with all dictators!

• Iran’s democratic revolution will triumph.

• In unison with political prisoners, we cry: No to executions, no to repression—uprising until the regime falls!

• The clerics are trying to escape responsibility for the Bandar Abbas disaster and the worsening electricity and water crises.

• Woman, Resistance, Freedom.

• Death to the tyrant, be it the Shah or the Mullahs!

• Neither Shah nor Sheikh—Freedom and a Democratic Republic!

This act of resistance in Zahedan sends a clear message that the Iranian people will not settle for cosmetic reforms or false alternatives. Their goal is the complete rejection of dictatorship in all its forms—and the establishment of a democratic, secular, and just Iran.