In the course of a series of intense measures to prevent or counter the uprising on May Day, the terrified clerical dictatorship put on an overwhelming show of force. To enforce maximum control and to stifle any dissent, the regime did not hold its usual annual stage-managed demonstrations. In Tehran alone, at least 15,000 agents of the State Security Force, anti-riot units, and the Bassij as well as plainclothes and Ministry of Intelligence and Security agents were deployed in Tehran.
Anti-regime protests and slogans in Tehran and other cities showed once again that neither brutal suppression nor conciliation toward the ruling faction will succeed in reversing the situation and restore the credibility of the regime’s Supreme Leader.
Chanting "Khamenei, the tyrant; every day is May Day,” the arisen workers have shown that the Iranian people, especially the deprived and the oppressed, are determined as never before to overthrow the clerical regime and will not rest until freedom and popular sovereignty is established. The Iranian nation has risen in a broad national solidarity front to bring down the religious dictatorship.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 2, 2010