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Southern regions continue to pulse with protests, especially in occupied Ahwaz, which has increasingly raised concerns for the Iranian occupation. Accordingly, Khamenei’s regime and its followers have begun working to crush these protests with all the force and power at their disposal.
Some human rights reports have indicated that security forces affiliated with the Persian occupying state opened live fire on protesters across the city of Khor Mousa following widespread demonstrations.
As a result, two residents of the city were martyred, including the young man Khaled Mallai, a Sunni Muslim and the son of Sheikh Abdulhamid Mallai, one of the senior Sunni scholars and prominent religious figures in southern Iran.
Field reports indicate that elements affiliated with the intelligence apparatus of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in addition to a number of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) who entered Iran with the aim of controlling the situation and breaking the momentum of the protests, fired live ammunition at peaceful demonstrators.
According to eyewitnesses, security forces refused to hand over the body of the young man Khaled Mallai to his family. The forensic medicine authority also objected to issuing a burial permit for the body and attaching a death report.
Additionally, around five days earlier, the young man Mohammad Mohammadlou, also from the city of Khor Mousa, was martyred alongside Khaled Mallai at the hands of security forces that were seeking to control the widespread protests.
The martyrdom of the sons of Ahwazi cities, especially among the youth, carries particular significance, as the racist Persian occupation appears intent on breaking the strength and will of young people, who are the main driving force behind these widespread protests.
In a related development, security forces closed some of the main roads in the Ahwazi city of Mohammerah to prevent protesters from moving through them. They set up barricades and security checkpoints in these streets and deployed security forces near protest sites.
Moreover, intelligence elements affiliated with the IRGC in the city of Mohammerah carried out an arrest campaign targeting a number of local teachers, out of fear that they might guide or encourage students to participate in the protests.
According to human rights reports, a large number of protesters have gone missing following the outbreak of these demonstrations—ranging between missing persons, martyrs, detainees, and the wounded—an act that violates international laws and norms.
13.01.2026
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