IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, JANUARY 7, 2023
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei continues to empower hardline security figures to enforce his uncompromising position toward the protests and mandatory hijab law.
The Judiciary executed two additional protesters—Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini.
Protest organizers tied to the Iranian Neighborhood Youth Union again failed to generate increased protest activity, despite their repeated calls for countrywide demonstrations and strikes on January 6-8
At least two protests occurred in two cities across two provinces.
Unknown gunmen shot and killed one person and injured two others at the Gachsaran Oil and Gas Company in Gachsaran, Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad Province.
State security services arrested reformist journalist Saeid Seyf Ali, according to his wife.
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Iran Crisis Update, January 8, 2023
Protest activity increased significantly—in line with the calls from protest organizers for countrywide demonstrations to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) shooting down of a Ukrainian civilian airplane.
At least 27 protests occurred in 17 cities across 13 provinces. This protest count does not include the situation at the Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, which is ongoing at the time of this writing.
The Iranian regime has reaffirmed its aggressive and hardline stance toward the protests and calls for social reform, which could enflame political dissent further.
Unidentified gunmen clashed with the Law Enforcement Command (LEC) in Khash, Khuzestan Province.
An unidentified gunman shot and killed an employee of Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran.
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