Wednesday, Fourth of Aban, A Day of Pain

Yesterday, Wednesday, the fourth of Aban 1401, corresponding to October 26, 2022, in Iran, on the occasion of the killing of Mahsa Amini by the Guidance Patrol, hundreds of thousands of our compatriots took to the streets across the country. Videos and images released from the city of Saqez, Mahsa Amini’s birthplace, on social media and satellite networks show that more than one hundred thousand of our compatriots participated in the fortieth-day ceremony of Mahsa Amini’s death.

However, according to other eyewitness accounts, in dozens of large and small cities in Iran, we witnessed unprecedented protests by people demanding the end of the Islamic regime.

In some cities such as Andimeshk in Khuzestan Province, due to the widespread presence of people, security forces were forced to abandon the city, preferring to flee, leaving the streets to the protesters.

The protesters on Wednesday creatively chanted new slogans (“Khamenei is another Khomeini, one is more tyrannical than the other.”)

Strange and memorable images were captured during yesterday’s Wednesday protests. Among them, in a video from Kermanshah, a woman without a headscarf stood on a trash can and chanted slogans among the crowd.

In the city of Amol, a group of young people blocked their chests before security forces and declared they are willing to sacrifice their lives to achieve their ideals.

In Zanjan, a brave young woman without a headscarf stood on top of a police car, while a police officer was sitting in the vehicle.

Forty days have passed since the beginning of the Iranian people’s uprising, and the Islamic regime of Iran has tried in every conceivable way to silence the voice of the protesting people, but has not succeeded so far.

Many people had anticipated that the regime would eventually commit a crime to divert public opinion and change the atmosphere of society. The project to set fire to Evin Prison in recent days was not successful for them. For this reason, once again, the regime’s intelligence and security forces launched another new project.

On Wednesday, initially the remains of the Metropol building in Abadan collapsed, and according to the regime’s media claims, one person died in this incident. An hour later, a passenger plane flying from Yazd to Mashhad experienced a technical malfunction and was forced to make an emergency landing, resulting in several passengers being injured.

But another incident that occurred on Wednesday was the attack on the Shahcheragh Shrine in the city of Shiraz. According to the statistics announced by state television, fifteen of our compatriots have been killed and forty others wounded.

The authorities and media of the Islamic Republic of Iran claim that this act was carried out by the ISIS group.

However, reports and news related to this incident from state officials are accompanied by many doubts and suspicions. Doubts that have led many people to conclude that the Islamic government in Iran itself is behind this affair.

Government media initially announced that there were three terrorists in this incident, two of whom were arrested.

Then Mr. Ismail Mohebipour, the political and security deputy of the governor of Fars, contradicted this statement on the regime’s state television and announced: the perpetrator of this incident was only one armed individual.

The Islamic Republic’s media broadcast a video in this regard to the public, which shows the moment an armed individual entered the shrine.

Contrary to the statements of government officials and fabricated witnesses in the broadcast video, at the time of the attack and this person’s entry into the shrine, no one confronts the attacker, and the armed individual, despite his weapon jamming, calmly and without any stress fixes the malfunction of his jammed weapon and continues shooting.

An eyewitness to this affair claimed in an interview with state television that the armed person and terrorist wore a black mask like ISIS members. However, the video images that the Islamic government itself broadcast on state television show that the armed individual had no mask on his face.

The governor of Fars and his security deputy claim in an interview with state television that the terrorist is currently wounded and unable to speak or be interrogated. This is while, immediately after the mentioned attack, the regime’s media unanimously claimed that the terrorist was a member of the takfiri group and ISIS.

The Islamic Republic’s media showed an image of the attacker unconscious and wounded on a hospital bed.

Now the question arises: if this person was unconscious and unable to be interrogated, how did the Islamic authorities immediately know that this person was a takfiri, a member of ISIS, and a foreign national?

Yesterday, the Islamic Republic’s media, immediately after this attack, released a poster on the occasion of the attack on the Shahcheragh Shrine.

However, someone with complete familiarity with computer software exposed the details of this poster, which shows that the said poster was created at 3:28 PM; while according to the video released from Shahcheragh in Shiraz, the attack on the shrine occurred at 5:02 PM, about two hours and fifteen minutes later.

Accordingly, many believe that the attack on Shahcheragh was designed by the Islamic government of Iran and aimed at diverting public opinion from the people’s revolutionary uprising.

It is noteworthy that the leaders of the Islamic government, including Mr. Ahmad Vahidi, the Interior Minister, have not hidden their true intentions and do not consider the Shahcheragh incident unrelated to anti-government protests.

But even if it is accepted that the attack on Shahcheragh was the work of ISIS, one must ask the leaders of the Islamic government and above all Mr. Khamenei: was it not you who five years ago claimed that ISIS’s work was finished and celebrated the end of this group?

Did you not tell the Iranian nation that we fought ISIS in Syria and Iraq so we would not have to confront them in Iran?

So how today has this group, and that too in Shiraz, carried out a successful operation?

And now the aware people have declared regarding these events: One of the things that Said Emami had confessed to, the bombing of the Mashhad shrine in 1994, was the work of the Intelligence Ministry itself. Of course, they said the leaders themselves did it, and they did not even allow the news to leak. During their own economic crisis, they planted a bomb, then extracted television confessions from four imprisoned Mujahedin that it was the work of hypocrites.

Now we the people tell you: never mind the Mashhad bombing and the Husseinieh of Shiraz. We won’t say anything about the Plasco and Sanchi. We won’t mention shooting down the Ukrainian flight. But your faces are still black from the soot of setting Evin on fire. It hasn’t ended; you went after Metropol? The dust of Metropol is still in the air, and you still wouldn’t stop and shot people at Shahcheragh?

In the terrorist attack on Shahcheragh, what we know is not the work of noble elites, medical students, the bar association, the generation of the eighties, students, medical staff, and other protesters of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising. What we the people are certain of is that we will no longer be distracted, and the next point is that we are certain it is your doing.