PMOI Resistance Units and 20,000 Acts of Resistance in Solidarity with the Free Iran 2024 Gathering
It was on February 9, 2024, that Khamenei’s security agents brutally threw a young street sweeper who was cleaning the path on the pedestrian bridge from the top of the bridge in Tehran and killed him. They thought he was planning to put up a protest banner or destroy the installed banners of the regime.
Also, the year before that, during the 2022 nationwide uprising in Mashhad, a protester writing slogans on the wall was shot by the repressive forces, who crushed his brain.
The reason for recalling these painful examples is to make tangible the dangers that the Resistance Units inside Iran face for any small activity. But in June, they courageously performed 20,000 acts of resistance in all parts of Iran to support the annual gathering of the Iranian Resistance.
To deal with these anti-repression activities, the clerical regime has installed CCTV cameras on all bridges and highways and in all areas of the cities to keep an eye on everything. However, the Resistance Units made the impossible possible by accepting all the risks to show their support for the Iranian Resistance.
The Resistance Units are members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main opposition force to the regime, who are busy working and living in their own cities and neighborhoods, but at the same time, they engage in anti-repression activities. They also recruit and organize young people and volunteer forces to work against the mullahs’ regime.
They play a guiding role during the uprisings and at other times they keep the flame of resistance burning.
Despite all the multiple problems they face, many women and girls are active in Resistance Units and encourage others to fight for their freedom and rights.
Despite the intense security measures and the deployment of hundreds of thousands of cameras across cities nationwide, the number of Resistance Units and their activities has grown significantly since last year. This year, compared to the previous year, the number of acts in support of the Free Iran gathering has doubled.
The growth and expansion of the network of Resistance Units throughout the country is not only a sign of the broad social base of the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance, but also indicates that Iranian society, like a barrel of gunpowder, is ready to rise up and overthrow the mullahs’ regime. This reality has manifested itself in the three major nationwide uprisings over the past seven years.
The Resistance Units spread the messages of the Iranian Resistance to the public across the country by installing and hoisting placards, writing slogans on walls, and widely distributing leaflets. These leaflets call for the boycott of the regime’s sham election, advocate for Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan for a future free Iran and promote the slogan “Women of Freedom Resistance.”
These Resistance Units have spread messages of hope and protest by bravely destroying portraits of Ali Khamenei, Ebrahim Raisi, and Qassem Soleimani, symbols of the mullahs’ regime. They have done this widely across the country, undermining the morale of the regime’s forces and sending a clear message that the people of Iran reject this regime and are planning to overthrow it.
These activities have been carried out despite the regime’s escalation in the arrest of political and civil activists, especially women under the pretext of enforcing the mandatory hijab, which aims to intensify the atmosphere of fear and repression and to prevent another uprising.
The June issue of the NCRI Women’s Committee presents photos of some of these activities carried out by women and girls who are members of the Resistance Units.
Three examples of banners hung from pedestrian bridges in Tehran and Isfahan (next page). The banners bear pictures of the opposition leader Maryam Rajavi and quotes from her speeches.
