Popular protests in several Iranian cities against the cooperation agreement with China

 

Popular protests in several Iranian cities against the cooperation agreement with China.

People in several Iranian cities protested on Tuesday against the new cooperation agreement with China that the regime signed this weekend. Protests took place in the capital Tehran, among others, where the people gathered outside the regime's parliament, as well as in Esfehan, Rast, Karaj, Gilan, and several other cities.

Mar. 30 – Tehran, #Iran
Women in Tehran chant against the 25-yr Iran-China Agreement.
"China get lost!"
"Down with those who sell the nation!"
"Iranians join us!" #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/jJGje82lva

— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) March 30, 2021

Similar protests also took place yesterday where the people expressed their dissatisfaction with the cooperation agreement. The protesters accused the regime of treason and looting and marketing Iran's natural resources.

March 30 – Rasht, northern #Iran
Locals rallying outside the provincial Governor's Office and protesting the 25-year Iran-China deal.#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/9FpJNxbMKn

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 30, 2021

Protest in the city of Rast where protesters sing the Iranian national anthem in protest of the agreement with China

In Tehran, the regime's repressive security forces attacked the protesters in an attempt to stop the protest outside the regime's parliament. It according to information to human rights and videos published on social media on Tuesday.

Mar. 30 – Tehran, #iran
The woman filming says security forces are beating the people who have gathered outside the Parliament to protest the 25yr Iran-China Agreement.
Iranians believe the regime is selling out the country to China to stay in power. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/eBgkuAAJGi

— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) March 30, 2021

Videos posted on social media also show the large presence of security forces in other Iranian cities.

Mar. 30 – Behbahan, SW #Iran
"We came to the street to protest the sell-off of Iran to China, but unfortunately the streets are filled with riot police."
The regime is petrified of peaceful #IranProtests because all dictators are weak and know when their time is up. pic.twitter.com/0Lb0zlO4Q1

— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) March 30, 2021

Iran is not for sale "," death to those who rent out our homeland "and" we will fight, we are prepared to sacrifice life, we will take back Iran "were some of the slogans that the protesters chanted during the protests.

#BREAKING
March 30—Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
For the second consecutive day people are protesting the 25-year Iran/China deal.

They're chanting:
"We will be here everyday until the deal is cancelled!" pic.twitter.com/ztLxjRGzUg

— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) March 30, 2021

Protests in the city of Karaj. Protesters chant "We will continue to protest here until the agreement is broken"

The regime refuses to release details

The Iranian regime and China signed a 25-year cooperation agreement over the weekend. The regime refuses to publish the agreement and the areas it covers in cooperation agreements.

Under the agreement, China will invest $ 400 billion in Iran in exchange for oil over the next 25 years, according to reports in international media.

According to some reports, the regime has sold the Iranian island of Kish to China. There are also reports that China may, according to the cooperation agreement, station 5,000 soldiers in a new military base in Iran.

However, the regime has dismissed these reports as false attacks in order to undermine the agreement. Other high-ranking regime officials and members of the regime's parliament describe the agreement as a major setback for the United States and the West.

The agreement and the regime's secrecy have also led to an infected conflict between the regime's various factions. It has also received strong criticism from several members of the regime's parliament.

Experts and the media say that the cooperation agreement could give China a greater influence in the Middle East and undermine the US attempt to isolate the Tehran regime.

Iranian opposition, NCRI: regime markets Iran's natural resources for survival

Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi described the cooperation agreement as a desperate attempt by the regime to ensure its own survival.

"The dictatorship of the anti-Iranian clergy is ripping out resources and assets belonging to the Iranian people in a 25-year pact with China. The clergy are only thinking of preserving their religious dictatorship, which Khomeini [the founders of the clergy] said was the most important task, "the Iranian opposition leader wrote on Twitter yesterday, adding.

"Therefore, the clergy do not care in the least about protecting the assets and resources of the Iranian people."

Therefore, the mullahs could not care less about protecting the Iranian people’s assets and resources. #Iran

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) March 29, 2021