On Friday, August 21, 2026, MEK Resistance Units in Zahedan carried out activities by displaying banners bearing a series of protest slogans against dictatorship and reaffirming their call for freedom, equality, and a democratic republic in Iran.

The slogans explicitly rejected both monarchical and clerical dictatorship and emphasized the Iranian people’s demand for freedom and equality.

Slogans Displayed by the Resistance Units in Zahedan

Among the slogans displayed were:

• “Baluchestan is awake—it rejects both Shah and mullahs.”
• “The curse of the people and history upon the bloodthirsty Shah and mullahs.”
• “Down with the oppressor, be it the Shah or the Supreme Leader.”
• “Neither monarchy nor the Supreme Leadership—freedom and equality.”
• “We want neither Shah nor mullahs—damn the dictators.”
• “Neither mullahs nor Shah—freedom and a democratic republic.”
• “From Zahedan to Tehran—down with the oppressor, be it the Shah or the Supreme Leader.”
• “Neither Shah nor mullahs—the demand of the Iranian people is a democratic republic.”

Messages by Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi

The banners also featured messages from Mr. Massoud Rajavi, leader of the Iranian Resistance, including:

“Under the Velayat-e Faqih regime, the president is in reality nothing more than a quartermaster. The rest is merely ceremony and formalities.”

“Reduce five million liters of gasoline daily from the IRGC, the Basij, the Intelligence Ministry, and the State Security Force—20 million liters in total—and there will be no shortage anymore.”

“The National Solidarity Fundraising campaign with Simay-e Azadi was a ray of light from the battle of battles that was blazing at the University of Independence and Freedom.”

“Our promise, and that of Iran’s brave sons and daughters, to the regime’s leaders, executioners, torturers, and mercenaries is justice in the court of the risen people of Iran.”

“The fire of the people’s uprising and the overthrow of the regime are ahead.”

“Hail to the people who stood firm. Hail to the martyrs who illuminated the path. Bravo to the rebels, the brave sons and daughters of Iran.”

“Religious dictatorship, like monarchical dictatorship, will be consigned to the grave by the people’s uprising.”

Messages by Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

Messages from Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), were also displayed:

“Under this plundering regime, the people’s table grows smaller every day, the number of people living below the poverty and hunger line increases, and the queues of the unemployed grow longer.”

“As long as this regime remains in power, poverty, inflation, and unemployment will intensify. The only answer is solidarity, uprising, and protest.”

“The poverty and hunger of the people are the result of 48 years of rule by a regime that plunders the country’s wealth.”

“Through their successive uprisings, the people of Iran have rejected both religious dictatorship and the Shah’s dictatorship.”