Iran voters reject voting in parliamentary elections amid oppression, crackdown

As Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reached out to Iranians for the second time in less than a week to go to the polling stations, protests and demonstrations renewed to call for boycotting the election, shaking the throne and legitimacy of the Mullahs’ regime.

Moreover, a poll conducted in January shows that 93 percent of the people in Tehran are unhappy with the current situation of the country and its management, and only 24.2% of them will go to the polls, chairman of the University of Tehran's Social Studies and Research Institute Ahmad Naderi reiterated.

Meanwhile, 162 political and civil rights activists have called for "civil disobedience," defending the fundamental rights of the people and staying away from the ballot boxes.

Activists on social media circulated footage of angry protesters shout, “No to vote, yes to boycotting elections,” “The people are poor and they only think about collecting votes,” “1,500 people, our victims in November,” “Victims of January and February, our comrades in blood and injustice,” “We are not spreaders of sedition, but you are!” (Referring to Ali Khamenei).

Students in several universities in Tehran and Isfahan held rallies and chanted slogans against the Basij militia and the clerical regime.

In a video showing a rally at Isfahan Industrial University students chant, "Execution and imprisonment no longer scare us" and "Get lost Basiji".

Referring to the many highly-educated passengers who were killed in the Ukrainian airline downed by an IRGC missile on Wednesday last week, the protesting students at Sharif Industrial University in Tehran were chanting slogans against clerics ruling the country.