Reported actions across Tehran, Mashhad, Chabahar, Zahedan, Kermanshah, Shiraz, and other cities underscore the continuing challenge to the Iranian regime’s machinery of repression.
The Resistance Units carried out 61 reported “revolutionary practices” and anti-repression operations across Iran during the third week of Shahrivar 1405, corresponding to September 7–13, 2026, according to reports circulated by the Iranian Resistance.
The activities, reported in cities and towns stretching from Tehran and Mashhad to Chabahar, Zahedan, Iran Shahr, Kermanshah, Shiraz, Bushehr, and other parts of the country, focused on symbols and centers associated with the Iranian regime’s political leadership, intelligence apparatus, security forces, judiciary, and propaganda network.
The breadth of the reported actions comes as the regime continues to rely heavily on repression, surveillance, intimidation, and executions to contain growing social discontent. Against this backdrop, the Resistance Units portray their activities as an organized continuation of resistance inside Iran and an effort to break the atmosphere of fear imposed by the authorities.
Defying the regime’s machinery of repression
A significant portion of the reported actions targeted facilities associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Basij paramilitary force, and the regime’s security and intelligence apparatus.
In Tehran, actions were reported against locations identified as connected to the Ministry of Intelligence, while in Kermanshah, Bushehr, Bam, Iran Shahr, Chabahar, Sarbaz, and other cities, reported activities targeted Basij centers and facilities.
The reports also described attacks on several other regime institutions. These included a judiciary facility in Gorgan, a judicial facility in the Kaki district of Bushehr Province, a Basij facility in Chahverdan-e Javerdeh in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, and a facility described as belonging to the regime’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Iran Shahr.
In Mashhad, an Islamic seminary identified in the reports as a center of the regime’s ideological apparatus was also targeted.
The repeated focus on such institutions reflects a central feature of the Resistance Units’ activities: challenging not only the regime’s political leadership but also the network of institutions through which it exercises repression and ideological control.
Symbols of Khamenei’s rule targeted
Another major component of the reported campaign involved burning banners and billboards displaying the regime’s leaders.
In Tehran, Karaj, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Bushehr, Qazvin, Arak, Kashan, Birjand, Maragheh, and Borazjan, Resistance Units reported setting fire to banners featuring Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his son Mojtaba Khamenei.
Several actions specifically targeted images of Mojtaba Khamenei, whose elevation to the position of supreme leader has been presented by the Resistance as evidence of the regime’s hereditary succession and deepening internal crisis.
In Shiraz alone, banners featuring Mojtaba Khamenei were reportedly targeted at four locations. Similar actions were reported in Tehran, Mashhad, Qazvin, Bushehr, Birjand, Maragheh, and other cities.
In Tehran and Chahbahar, banners depicting Khomeini, Ali Khamenei, and Mojtaba Khamenei were also reportedly set on fire.
These actions carry a broader political message. By targeting the images that dominate public spaces, the Resistance Units seek to challenge the regime’s effort to project authority and inevitability through its propaganda apparatus.
Challenging the regime’s legacy of repression
The reported activities also targeted symbols associated with Qassem Soleimani, the former IRGC Quds Force commander, who has long been promoted by the regime as a symbol of its military and regional power.
In Kermanshah and Arak, banners featuring Soleimani were reportedly set on fire. The Arak action was accompanied, according to the report, by slogans rejecting Khamenei and expressing support for Massoud Rajavi.
In Chahbahar, a symbol depicting Soleimani and other deceased regime commanders was reportedly targeted.
Elsewhere in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Resistance Units reported burning signs associated with Khomeini and targeting signs connected to the regime’s police and IRGC intelligence networks. Similar actions were reported in Zahedan, Pishin, and Rask.
Resistance spreads across diverse regions
The geographical scope of the reported actions is notable. Tehran and other major urban centers were joined by cities and smaller communities across several provinces.
Reports included activities in Mashhad and Torbat-e Jam in Razavi Khorasan; Kermanshah; Shiraz; Bushehr and Kaki; Bam; Arak; Qazvin; Kashan; Maragheh; Birjand; Karaj; and numerous locations in Sistan and Baluchestan, including Chahbahar, Zahedan, Iran Shahr, Sarbaz, Pishin, and Rask.
The distribution of these activities is presented by the Resistance as evidence that opposition to the regime is not confined to a single city, social group, or region.
Rather, the Resistance Units describe their continuing activities as part of a broader effort to keep organized opposition alive inside Iran despite extensive security measures.
Breaking the atmosphere of fear
The reported 61 actions in the third week of Shahrivar come amid continued political and economic pressure on Iranian society. The regime’s response to dissent has included arrests, executions, surveillance, and the deployment of security forces to suppress expressions of opposition.
Against this backdrop, the Resistance Units seek to demonstrate that repression has not eliminated organized resistance.
Their activities—whether directed at regime propaganda, security institutions, or symbols of the ruling establishment—are presented as acts of defiance intended to challenge the regime’s claim to control public space.
The reported actions across Iran therefore represent more than a list of individual incidents. For the Iranian Resistance, they are part of a continuing campaign to confront repression, undermine the regime’s atmosphere of fear, and keep alive the demand for fundamental political change.
As the regime intensifies its efforts to consolidate power, the Resistance Units maintain that their activities will continue to challenge the institutions and symbols through which the ruling establishment seeks to impose its authority.