As anti-government protests across Iran and East Kurdistan entered the 46th day, youth have stepped up their resistance in recent days.
On 30 October, which marked the 45th day of the protests in East Kurdistan, people took to the streets in numerous cities once again to demand their freedom and rights. The protests were sparked by the torture to death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in the custody of the so-called morality police.
Anti-regime slogans were frequently chanted during demonstrations in cities such as Sine, Serdeşt, Merivan, Piranşar, Kuhdeşt and Bane.
On Saturday, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), Hussein Salami, called for an end to the popular uprising. “The demonstrators should not try the patience of the system,” the general warned, saying, “Today is the last day of unrest. Do not come to the streets anymore.” He said no one would allow the protesters to continue creating insecurity and to turn the country’s universities into a “battlefield”. Despite Selami’s warning, people continued to pour out in the streets at the weekend.
Students from Shiraz University held a rally and announced that this year would be the year to overthrow Iranian religious leader Ali Khamenei. While students of Sadra Islamic Azad often shouted the slogan “Freedom, freedom, freedom”, students at Shiraz Azad University said that Ali Khamenei was responsible for the “terrorist” attacks that took place in the city recently.
Students from Islamic Azad University and Pardis University in Tehran chanted the slogan “Death to the dictator”.
“We are not leaving Iran; we are taking back Iran” and “This is the last message! The whole establishment is our target”, Amir Kabir University students said.
Students at the University of Zanjan, high school students in Sine, Noshirvani University in Babul, Arak University, Azad University in Eslamshahr, Chamran University in Ahvaz, high school students in Marivan, residents of the Kuhdasht city in Loristan province, Imam Reza University in Mashhad, Sardesht University students and students in many other cities took to the streets and took part in the ongoing protests.
The Sine youth committee announced its establishment and called for the active participation of the youth in the actions.
The announcement declared that they would not leave their streets until they achieved victory. The committee distributed the statement it prepared to all houses one by one.
The committee called on the youth and stated that agents and collaborators who wanted to liquidate the developing revolution and who wanted to prevent it should be punished.