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Sep 12 - Marivan, NW #Iran
Locals have launched a general strike, protesting the recent execution of three Kurdish political prisoners & an attack on Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish dissident groups.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Bukan, NW #Iran
Locals launching a general strike, protesting the recent execution of three Kurdish political prisoners & an attack on Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish dissident groups.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Sanandaj, W #Iran
Locals launching a coordinated general strike in several cities, protesting the recent execution of three Kurdish political prisoners & an attack on Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish dissident groups.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Baneh, NW #Iran
Locals launching a coordinated general strike in several cities, protesting the recent execution of three Kurdish political prisoners & an attack on Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish dissident groups.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Sanandaj, W #Iran
More footage of locals launching a coordinated general strike in several cities.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Piranshahr, NW #Iran
Locals joining a coordinated general strike in several cities.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Oshnavieh, NW #Iran
Locals joining a coordinated general strike in several cities.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Paveh & Saqqez, NW #Iran
Locals joining a coordinated general strike in several cities.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Oshnavieh, NW #Iran
Sources say the regime's intelligence units are marking the stores of those joining this general strike for possible measures against the owners in the future.
This is also intended to create a climate of fear among the locals.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Kurdistan region, #Iran
Locals launching a coordinated general strike in several cities, protesting the recent execution of three Kurdish political prisoners & an attack on Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish dissident groups.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Kurdish cities in #Iran
Kamiaran - Paveh
Locals joining a coordinated general strike in several cities.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Kurdish cities in #Iran
Sanandaj - Bukan
Locals joining a coordinated general strike in several cities.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Kurdish cities in #Iran
Paveh - Oshnavieh
Locals joining a coordinated general strike in several cities.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Kurdish cities in #Iran
21 cities joining a coordinated general strike protesting the execution of 3 Kurdish political prisoners & an attack on Iranian Kurdish dissident groups based in Iraq.
Reports indicate authorities are dispatching security units.
#IranProtests
#BREAKING
Sep 12 - Sanandaj, western #Iran
Sources say the entire city is literally closed down & regime officials are literally terrified of possible protests.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Urmia, NW #Iran
Store-owners in the city have joined the expanding strike launched in Kurdish cities.

Reports also indicate the strike has also reached the city of Kermanshah.
Seeking footage from this city.

#IranProtests
#BREAKING
Sep 12 - Prior to noon local time, following the arrest of Mokhtar Zareie in Sanandaj, three other civil activists by the names of Suran Daneshvar (pictured), Mosem Bahrami & Aram Fat'hi were arrested in Marivan, northwest #Iran.

@StateDept @statedeptspox @USAdarFarsi
Sep 12 - Kurdistan region of #Iran
The 17 cities of Qasr Shirin, Nowdeshah, Kermanshah, Urmia, Sanandaj, Sarvabad, Sardasht, Kamiaran, Mahabad, Saqqez, Paveh, Piranshahr, Bukan, Miarivan, Oshanavieh, Baneh & Gug Tapeh are all on general strike.
#IranProtests
Sep 12 - Sanandaj, #Iran
In an effort to prevent the massive general strike from spreading to further cities, Iranian authorities resorted to arresting three Kurdish civil activists, Mokhtar Zarei, Khaled Hosseini & Mozaffar Saleh-nia.
#IranProtests
Meet Mostafa Shirzadi (L), Friday prayer imam in the city of Marivan, NW #Iran.

Word is that this individual himself placed the noose around the necks of #LoghmanMoradi & #ZaniarMoradi.
Welcome to 21st century #Iran under the mullahs' rule.

Authorities using Nazi/Hitler tactics, marking the stores on strike today as shop owners in 28 different cities across 3 provinces launched a general strike.

To the world: Your silence supports the regime.
Raise your voice.
More videos of #Iran regime agents marking stores on strike.

No. This is not Nazi Germany.
This is #Iran. Ruled by the ruthless mullahs' regime.

Mark my words:
Just as the Nazis' rule came to an end, so will the mullahs' reign.

#IranRegimeChange
#BREAKING
Suran Daneshvar (pictured) & Aram Fat'hi, two Kurdish civil activists, have been transferred to IRGC intelligence for torture & to obtain coerced confessions, according to @amjad_panahi.


@USAdarFarsi @StateDept @statedeptspox
Mokhtar Zareie, a Kurdish activist, has been arrested by #Iran regime agents.

Be his voice.
@USAdarFarsi @StateDept @statedeptspox

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#Iran's #FakeNews machine at work:

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2)
Here's the video.

#Iran
#FakeNews
3)
What a coincidence (!), all of this developing just "a week after Tehran sentenced three people to death in a drive against economic crimes."

#Iran
#FakeNews
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