Tens of millions of Iranians boycott revolution's 25th Anniversary "celebration"

Student Movement Coordinating Committee for Democracy in Iran ^ | 2.11.2004 | SMCCDI (Information Service)

[DoctorZIn]

Tens of millions of Iranians boycotted today what was supposed to be qualified as the "Celebration" of "25 Years of Glory". Millions and milions stayed home by turning, once again, their backs to the Islamic republic regime and its dark legacy.

In Tehran, the regime was just able to gather a professional crowd rich of less than 150 thousands and in main provincial cities the number was much lesser than any other year. It's to note that the population of the Greater Tehran is around 15 millions of inhabitants and that some of the regime's mouthpieces have reported that the today's demonstrators were brought to the Azadi square by around 4000 buses which had departed from 7 "gathering points".

SMCCDI had revelead eralier that confirming reports from main Iranian cities and especially the Capital were stating about the start of mass transfers of paid "celebrators" and future "voters" to these cities. These transfers managed and supervised by the Offices of Islamic Propagation and the Pasdaran Intelligence are made in preparation of the "celebration" of the 25th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, on Wednesday, and the regime's sham parliamentary elections of Feb. 20th.

Full buses reached the cities of Tehran, Esfahan, Shiraz, tabriz, Mashad, Hamadan and Oroomiah (former Rezai-e) by delivering their load of paid rural people who are receiving money, gifts, promises and free full paid travel to cities.

Most of the state's foundations' hotels and dorm places, Bassij centers, mosques and even part of the regime's military facilities, such as in Lavizan (NE of Tehran) are lodging these guests.

The regime intends by this way to boost its "popular legitimacy" and avoid empty streets on these days while each of the ministries received the order to gather groups of employees, school students and plainclothes militaries and to send them for the two events.

[kuma]

That's no joke. They use tax-payer funded school buses to take the kiddies to leftist protest events. They've already saturated the universities and are now focused on public schools.

A simple comparison of Democrats to Iran's regime is all that is needed to know what they are.

[TigerLikesRooster]

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Why need to celebrate 25 years of glory while they could celebrate 2,500 years of glory? Oh, I know! Islam is a relatively recent phenomenon in Iran. So good memory of infidel pagans have to be buried at all costs.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

There have been anti-war demonstrations in the US, where the numbers were inflated, and later digital photography and mathematics proved it.

The same could be done regarding the numbers in Iran, but it probably won't happen. It isn't like CNN is going to investigate!

My main point is, this is NOTHING new. And if Freepers know anything, they understand how manipulation works, that's why we are gravitated to FR, and the REAL story.

Thanks for your work, Doc. It is important that we are all informed.

[pragmatic_asian]

Your math is a bit off. It's 8000m x 40m = 320,000 sq meters. You could easily fit 3 to 4 people per square meter. Still I wouldn't accept any figures from that regime.

[philetus]

Instead of letting them get picked off one by one, why don't those tens of millions head for Tehran with anything they can get their hands on.

If they did that, the army would join them and the mullahs would be history.