Video – Iran: Protest against TV series erupts in several cities

NCRI – Thousands of Iranians from the Bakhtiari tribes have staged a mass protest during the week in the cities of Dezful, Masjed-Soleyman and Ahwaz in anger at a TV series broadcast on a state-run network that is racist and insulting to their people.

The series entitled ‘ Sarzamin-e Kohan’ (The Ancient Land) supposed to be about history of Iran from the 1940s to the mullahs seizing power in Iran in 1978. But the people say it distorts historical facts about the Bakhtiaries.

In Dezful, protesters waved banners reading, ‘We are original Iranians and we do not accept humiliation’, while 600 city residents also gathered to call for the resignation of the head of state-run TV and radio network.

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