Eye on Iran's Protests - April 13, 2023

Over the past week, the Iranian anti-regime movement spawned dozens of protests across Iran. Brave young women continued resisting gender apartheid through civil disobedience. Since the movement began in September 2022, 530 protesters have been murdered; 19,763 arrested; and countless others have been subjected to brutality, including rape, beating, poisoning, and electrocution. This is how the Islamic Republic seeks to suppress a peaceful democratic revolution.

This map depicts the protests that occurred in Iran over the past week.

Poisonings at schools continued in Iran. This footage was recorded at Khayyam girls’ school in Pardis.

Opposite the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office in London, activist Vahid Beheshti continued his hunger strike, calling on the U.K. to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organization.

Multiple hospitalizations were documented in Shahinshahr after at least ten schools were targeted in chemical attacks.

Tehran subway officers denied entry to a woman not wearing a hijab.

One-hundred and thirty U.S. congressmen and women—ranging from progressives to conservatives—signed a letter urging the European Union to sanction the IRGC as a terrorist organization.

Security forces fired a stun grenade at a car, shattering the windshield, exploding inside the vehicle, and filling the occupant’s left eye and his face with broken pieces of glass.

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has called several journalists and activists and forced them to remove their posts, stories, and tweets about poison attacks against schoolgirls, warning that they’d be charged with disturbing public opinion if they do it again.

Fearless women across Iran are posting photos of themselves without a veil.

“We have received reports that 435 students have been suspended or expelled by disciplinary committees in an illegal process for security reasons [protesting], and these are just a portion of the punishments,” Iran's University Students Trade Unions Council said in a statement.

The Ministry of Sport and Youth of Gilan announced that a sports club was closed for allegedly "breaking Islamic dress code and behavior rules." In recent weeks, Iranian state apparatuses have closed hundreds of businesses for failing to observe compulsory hijab.