Nationwide uprising in Iran – Statement 114
NCRI – By 16:30 local time today, groups of Revolutionary Guards, anti-riot police, State Security Forces (SSF), plainclothes agents have stationed in Tehran’s central streets and squares including Vali Asr, Haft Tir, Keshavarz Boulevard, Amir Abad and Zand streets. The forces are also stationed in Baharestan Square adjacent to mullahs’ Parliament (Majlis). Helicopters are also hovering over the areas where people have gathered.
The regime’s forces are mobilized to crackdown today’s demonstrations to commemorate the July 21, 1952 uprising in support of the nationalist government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq.
According to a report at about 17:45, the suppressive forces of SSF had surrounded the Mokhber al-Dowleh square. They were beating people brutally with batons. The forces based in the area carry guns and batons.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 21, 2009
