NCRI – Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of theIranian Resistance, hailed Iranians and especially youths in Tehran and other cities around the country who held demonstrations today to mark the anniversary of the July 21, 1952 uprising in Tehran in support of Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq, the late leader of the Iranian nationalist movement.
Demonstrations in various streets and main squares in Tehran and Ebn Babuyeh cemetery, where the July 21, 1952 martyrs have been buried, took place while the mullahs’ suppressive forces, including the IRGC, the paramilitary Bassij, plainclothes agents, State Security Forces (SSF), the special units and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) agents were on full alert and stationed at hotspots across the city. They tried to prevent any form of protest by resorting to the most brutal forms of violence against women and youths. A large number of demonstrators were arrested and a number of others were wounded.
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance called on people across the world to help the wounded and families of the detainees and to help alleviate the sufferings and pains resulting from the forced separation of loved ones. She called on the United Nations Secretary General, the UN Security Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and other competent UN bodies as well as all human rights organizations to condemn barbaric suppression of people’s demonstrations and to refer the dossier on the crimes of the ruling religious fascism in Iran to the UN Security Council.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 21, 2009
