{"id":11171,"date":"2018-07-23T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=11171"},"modified":"2018-07-23T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T17:07:02","slug":"iran-borazjan-protests-erupt-over-water-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/11171\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Borazjan Protests Erupt Over Water Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-borazjan-protests-erupt-again-over-water-shortages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>July 22, 2018 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>From early hours of Sunday morning, locals in the city of Borazjan (southern Iran), the brave people, especially the youth, once again protested against lack of drinking water and clashed with the repressive forces that were trying to disperse them. They expressed their outrage by setting tires on fire on the Borazjan-Bushehr road blocking the road and practically closing the city entrance.<\/p>\n<p>From Saturday evening people and brave youths in this city were seen demonstrating, protesting four days of no running water and the city\u2019s corrupt officials and repressive forces remaining completely careless of the locals\u2019 catastrophic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>These demonstrations continued into the night and people were seen chanting:\u00a0\u201cDeath to the Dictator,\u201d (referring to Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei). they also chanted:\u00a0\u201cOur is right here, they lies and say its America\u201d and\u00a0\u201cLet go of Syria, think about us\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday in the afternoon a large number of people rallied for the second consecutive day, chanting \u201cDeath to the Dictator\u201d and protesting outside Bank Mellat and in the city\u2019s hospital square.<\/p>\n<p>This rally formed as repressive security forces were dispatched to the city\u2019s main streets and squares to prevent any protests. These protests show how the uprising that began in Dec\/Jan has completely changed Iran\u2019s landscape and continues to flare.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a><br \/>July 22 &#8211; Borazjan, southern <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><br \/>Footage of people protesting severe water shortages and blocking the Borazjan-Busheher road.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/IranUpdate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranUpdate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VueYPIxBSu\">pic.twitter.com\/VueYPIxBSu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1020924482486263809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just two weeks ago after a major spark of protests in Borazjan, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iran-protests\/25080-people-of-borazjan-protest-against-power-failure-and-lack-of-drinking-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement<\/a> saying:<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday evening July 7, brave people, and youths of Borazjan (Bushehr province, southern Iran) protested against the lack of drinking water for four days and the neglect of the regime&#8217;s corrupt and oppressive officials about the disastrous situation of livelihoods in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, which started from the hospital&#8217;s square, continued until the very last hours of the night. The people chanted: Death to the dictator; the enemy is right here, they are lying it is the United States; let go of Syria, think about us; We do not want incompetent government; Don\u2019t be scared, don\u2019t be scared, we are all together; Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, my life for Iran; With a less embezzlement our problems would be solved; We shall die, but do not tolerate humiliation; With a less theft, our problems will be solved.<\/p>\n<p>By giving hollow promises, the Iranian regime\u2019s authorities tried to disperse the people and quell their anger. But the people booed them and chanted: it is a lie, it is a lie. Khamenei&#8217;s representative and the criminal Friday prayer imam of the city escaped the scene in fear of the people\u2019s uprising.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the traitorous and devastating policies of the mullahs, many of the cities are in terrible conditions in the very hot weather of the summer due to lack of water.\u00a0 Last week, Khorramshahr and other cities in Khuzestan launched massive demonstrations in protest of being deprived of drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>According to Shahin Pakrooh, one of the deputies of water and wastewater engineering company of the regime, 334 cities are facing the shortage of water this summer, out of which 107 cities are in the red situation. It is expected that Isfahan, Kerman, Fars, Khorasan, and Sistan-Baluchistan provinces will face a more severe crisis (Tasnim, the IRGC affiliated news agency, April 24).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/vimeo.com\/281163234<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Source:\u00a0PMOI\/MEK July 22, 2018 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0From early hours of Sunday morning, locals in the city of Borazjan (southern Iran), the brave people, especially the youth, once <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/11171\/\" title=\"Iran: Borazjan Protests Erupt Over Water Shortage\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,5,429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-protests-news","category-news","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11177,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171\/revisions\/11177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}