Resistance Units expand nationwide campaign with anti-execution protests, symbolic operations, and coordinated actions following Khamenei’s funeral
The PMOI’s Resistance Units have carried out a new wave of coordinated activities across dozens of Iranian cities, combining symbolic protests, anti-regime operations, and support for political prisoners in one of the broadest nationwide campaigns in recent months.
The actions unfolded around three major occasions: the funeral of former regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the nationwide “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, and a series of coordinated revolutionary operations targeting regime symbols. Together, they reflected a strategy of maintaining political pressure while demonstrating that organized resistance continues to operate throughout the country despite heightened security measures.
Nationwide campaign during Khamenei’s funeral
As the regime organized ceremonies surrounding Khamenei’s burial, Resistance Units responded with widespread public messaging rejecting both religious dictatorship and any return to monarchical rule.
Across multiple provinces, activists displayed banners, graffiti, posters, and PMOI symbols carrying slogans including:
- “Neither monarchy nor supreme leadership—democracy and equality.”
- “Death to the principle of Velayat-e Faqih.”
- “Death to the oppressor, whether Shah or Supreme Leader.”
- “Long live the National Liberation Army.”
- “Hail Rajavi.”
Public messaging appeared in Tehran, Shiraz, Yazd, Semnan, Mashhad, Isfahan, Arak, Qaemshahr, Kashan, Sanandaj, Shahrekord, Aq Qala, Chalous, Bandar Abbas, Gorgan, and several other cities.
In Tehran, Resistance Units conducted collective street activities declaring their commitment to continue “to the end of the road” while rejecting both clerical and monarchical dictatorship.
In Qaemshahr, activists installed PMOI emblems on bridges and public structures while promoting slogans supporting a future provisional government and calling for the end of the doctrine of absolute clerical rule.
Meanwhile, activists in Kashan issued declarations emphasizing their commitment to the freedom of all Iranians and their rejection of dictatorship and foreign dependence, presenting these statements as an enduring pledge to continue the struggle.
Overall, reports documented Resistance slogans appearing in at least 24 separate urban locations across the country.
Resistance Units reinforce “No to Execution Tuesdays”
The campaign also coincided with the latest nationwide “No to Execution Tuesdays” initiative on July 7, as Resistance Units amplified calls against the regime’s continuing wave of executions and expressed solidarity with political prisoners.
Across cities including Tehran, Mashhad, Amol, Jiroft, Chalous, Dezful, Dargaz, Saveh, Shahrud, Kermanshah, Arak, Qom, Rasht, and others, activists distributed messages and displayed slogans demanding an end to executions.
Many statements framed the campaign as part of a broader struggle for democratic change.
Among the principal messages were:
- “No to executions, yes to freedom.”
- “Yes to a democratic republic.”
- “The mullahs use executions to escape overthrow.”
- “The voice of political prisoners will not be silenced.”
- “Resistance until the last breath.”
Other messages honored fallen protesters while linking their sacrifice to the continued struggle of imprisoned dissidents.
Resistance Units also called on Iranians to support the nationwide anti-execution movement, portraying opposition to capital punishment as a shared national demand rather than the concern of prisoners’ families alone.
Thirty coordinated operations target regime symbols
In a separate series of actions, Resistance Units carried out approximately 30 coordinated operations targeting symbols of the ruling establishment despite what organizers described as heightened security conditions.
The operations included the burning of large posters and banners featuring Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei, Ruhollah Khomeini, and other prominent regime figures, as well as symbols of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The coordinated actions were reported in Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Shahrekord, Ardabil, Zahedan, Birjand, Najafabad, Fasa, Dehloran, Rezvanshahr, Azna, and Alashtar, among other locations.
In Isfahan and Shahrekord, activists accompanied the operations with slogans calling for the overthrow of clerical rule while expressing support for the National Liberation Army and the Iranian Resistance.
One of the largest operations occurred in Zahedan, where reports indicated that banners featuring Khamenei were set ablaze in five separate locations.
The campaign also invoked the memory of the 1992 Mashhad uprising, recalling Khamenei’s own remarks at the time in which he referred to protesters as “thugs” and called for security forces to eliminate them. Resistance Units contrasted those comments with today’s continuing protest movement, presenting the current struggle as part of a decades-long confrontation between the Iranian people and the ruling establishment.
Demonstrating an organized nationwide network
Taken together, the latest activities illustrate the geographic breadth and organizational capacity of the PMOI’s Resistance Units.
Rather than concentrating on a single form of protest, the campaign combined symbolic political messaging, public demonstrations of defiance, anti-execution advocacy, memorialization of past uprisings, and direct actions against regime propaganda.
The repeated appearance of coordinated slogans across dozens of cities also underscores the movement’s consistent political message: rejection of both clerical rule and monarchy, support for a democratic republic, solidarity with political prisoners, and continued resistance against state repression.
Coming immediately after Khamenei’s death and during a period of heightened political uncertainty inside Iran, the coordinated campaign signals that organized opposition networks remain active and intend to sustain pressure on the regime while advocating for democratic change.
