NEW: CTP-ISW has recorded 89 protests across 21 provinces in Iran since its last data cutoff on January 6, including 19 protests in Tehran City. The protests have continued to primarily take place in western Iran and in smaller, less populated areas. The regime continues to use
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NEW: CTP-ISW has recorded 89 protests across 21 provinces in Iran since its last data cutoff on January 6, including 19 protests in Tehran City. The protests have continued to primarily take place in western Iran and in smaller, less populated areas. The regime continues to use violence and lethal force to suppress the protests. The regime reportedly disrupted internet access in parts of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and Ilam provinces.
Additional Key Takeaways:
A group of seven Kurdish organizations, including anti-regime groups, called for a general strike across Iran on January 8. The organizations’ call for a general strike is notable given that the regime previously accused Kurdish opposition groups of inciting protests in Kurdish areas during the Mahsa Amini movement.
The Mobarizoun Popular Front (MPF), which is a coalition of Baloch anti-regime groups, killed an Iranian Law Enforcement Command (LEC) officer in Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchistan Province, on January 7 in response to the regime’s violent crackdown on protesters across Iran. The MPF previously warned on January 1 that it would respond to “every bullet” fired by Iranian security forces at protesters.
Anti-regime media and some social media users claimed that Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have deployed to Iran to support the Iranian regime’s crackdown on protests. The militias’ deployments, if true, could bolster the regime’s efforts to contain the protests. CTP-ISW is unable to verify these reports, and anti-regime media have circulated similar reports during previous waves of protests.
Saudi Arabia and Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) President Rashad al Alimi altered the composition of the PLC by pressuring Southern Transitional Council (STC) members to sideline STC President and former PLC Vice President Aidarous al Zubaidi and other hardline secessionists.
Several former Assad regime officers are reportedly attempting to organize insurgent activity against the Syrian government from Lebanese territory. The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) does not appear to have taken actions to meaningfully disrupt these officers’ efforts to organize and support insurgent activity, despite recent arrests that are rumored to have targeted Assad regime networks. (1/2)
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