NCRI – On Thursday night, April 1, 2010, the courageous people and youths of Tehran’s Shahrak-e Gharb district took to their rooftops to voice their hatred towards the religious fascism ruling Iran by chanting “God is great,” “death to dictator” and “down with the principle of velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule).” (April 1 is the anniversary of a 1979 so-called referendum that the regime’s founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, concocted in order to cement his newfound theocratic regime after the revolution in February. It is thus hated and dismissed by Iranians as the anniversary of the hijacking of the 1979 antimonarchical revolution by the clerical regime).
Last night, too, from about 21:30 to 22:15 local time, despite a heavy suppressive atmosphere created by the regime’s agents in the same district in Tehran, youths carried out their nightly protests.
In recent days, on the brink of the last day of New Year holidays (known as Sizdeh Bedar, April 2), the clerical regime has added to the number of its suppressive forces stationed throughout Tehran in order to prevent the eruption of dissent and anger by the Iranian people. Checkpoints have been set up in various parts of Tehran, including Shahrak-e Gharb, Tehransar and Tehran Pars, to inspect vehicles and intimidate people.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 2, 2010
