Motorcycle ban enforced in Tehran
NCRI – Iranian regime on Tuesday enforced a ban on motorcycles from 14:00 to 24:00 local time as Iranian people celebrate the annual Fire Festival.
The state-run media quoting the Commander of the State Security Forces in Tehran, Revolutionary Guard Hossein Sajedi-nia, talking about “security maneuver in Tehran" that started yesterday aimed at "maintaining security during the last Wednesday of the year (reference to Fire Festival) and New Year holidays and the security of neighborhoods." He warned that the "rioters" will be "dealt with harshly."
In the meantime, Colonel Hadi Hashemi, Tehran’s traffic police chief, referring to “some young people who throw sound grenades and fire crackers as they traditionally do every year” warned, “Motorcyclists must not go out of their homes from noon today because the police will confiscate their motors,” Mehr news agency, affiliated to the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, quoted him saying.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 16, 2010