Yaqobzadeh, the mayor of Ardebil said,” The troching of banks and government buildings on Saturday cost the city seven billion Riyals in damages.”
He also admitted that young people had set on fire a corrupt loan center known as Imam Jafarsadeq.
At Revolutionary Guards Corps Joint Chiefs of Staff’s morning drills, the Maj. General Rahim Safavi, Supreme Commander of the Revolutionary Guards, said that the uprisings in Azerbaijan, Ardebil, and Zanjan provinces were instigated by outsiders. He added, “We have documents which prove that the outside elements directed the uprisings.”
Commander of the State Security Forces (SSF), Maj. General Esmail Ahmadi- Moqadam said,” In a bid to strengthen the operational units, half of administrative work force and two third of their vehicles have been allocated to these unites.”
Uprisings in the Azeri provinces and demonstrations in Tehran, Khuzistan and other parts of Iran clearly indicate the Iranian people’s deep- rooted hatred of the medieval tyranny ruling Iran.
Attributing the week-long uprisings by Azeri provinces to “external elements” and stepping up suppression is foremost an expression of the regime’s fear of the present volatile situation.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 4, 2006