NCRI- Despite heavy security preparations for the last Wednesday of the year (Fire Festival) turned into widespread demonstration of the Iranian people’s hatred of the ruling clerics, reported Resistance’s sources in Iran.
Men, women and children turned the occasion into in all out show of the popular discontent with mullas. Burning pictures of mullahs’ supreme leader and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was common place in the major cities such as Tehran, Kermanshah, Ahwaz, and Isfahan to small remote townships.
NCRI- Despite heavy security preparations for the last Wednesday of the year (Fire Festival) turned into widespread demonstration of the Iranian people’s hatred of the ruling clerics, reported Resistance’s sources in Iran.
Men, women and children turned the occasion into in all out show of the popular discontent with mullahs. Burning pictures of mullahs’ supreme leader and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was common place in the major cities such as Tehran, Kermanshah, Ahwaz, and Isfahan to small remote townships.
The common slogan among youth was: “Death to Ahmadinejad”, “Death to Khamenei”, “Canons, Tanks in combating people would back fire.”
Loud noise of fire crackers and on occasions concoction grenades could be heard from blocks away.
“In less than thirty minutes 20 different places were set on fire in the capital,” reported the semi-official news agency Fars on Tuesday night.
Months of preparations in hope of stopping Fire Festival
On February 25, a state-run website quoted Eskandar Momeni, the deputy commander of the regime’s State Security Forces (SSF) in Tehran as saying: “In the past few months the SSF has carried out a number of operations extending from the border regions to far deep in the cities. These have resulted in discovery of many firecrackers.”
Moayedi, commander of SSF in Fars province told the state-run Fars news agency on February 27, “the volume and the quality” of the firecrackers show that “a group with the intention of creating unrest under the pretext of Chaharshanbehsouri (Fire Festival)” has imported those to Iran.
Moayedi said that the regime had been working in the past three months for the security of the festive period.
Vali Haji Gholizadeh, the public prosecutor for the northern city of Khoy in an official statement warned the local shops not to offer firecrackers to the public. He described the act as illegal and punishable by law.
"The State Security Forces (SSF) will firmly deal with those breaking the law," said Gholizadeh.
