Reza Pahlavi urges Iranians to mark ancient festival in defiance of regime

Arutz Sheva ^ | 15/3/26 | Yitzi Goldberg

[Eleutheria5]

Video of Reza, viewable on X.

Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi issued a statement ahead of the upcoming Charshanbeh Suri observance, urging Iranians in Iran and abroad to commemorate the occasion while opposing the Islamic Republic.

Charshanbeh Suri is an ancient Iranian festival held on the eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz, the Persian New Year. The tradition includes lighting bonfires and gathering in celebration, symbolizing renewal and the welcoming of spring.

"On the eve of Charshanbeh Suri, the anti-Iranian regime of the Islamic Republic is once again attempting to prevent this ancient national ritual," Pahlavi said in the statement. "But this year, we will mark Charshanbeh Suri with solemn national pride in memory of the brave souls who have sacrificed their lives to reclaim Iran and our national identity."

Pahlavi described the holiday’s traditional fires as a symbol of national resilience.

"Our message is clear: our fire, the symbol of Iran’s light and purity, will triumph over the darkness of this un-Iranian regime and cleanse the soil of our homeland from its criminal occupiers," he said.

Calling for international demonstrations, Pahlavi urged members of the Iranian diaspora to gather outside diplomatic missions of the Islamic Republic.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Iran; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: charshanbehsuri; defy; iran; pahlavi; regime

[Eleutheria5]

Burn, baby, burn, baby. Disco inferno.

[jmcenanly]

I was thinking more along the lines of ,”Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick...”

[Ciexyz]

Happy holidays to our Iranian friends who are living in exile, as they celebrate their Spring holidays.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I hope the Iranian people are hearing his message. I know they are afraid to come out of their homes I understand that but in the meantime if they can tell the IDF and the US where the IRGC is located we can just kill them and that is even honestly better than protesting at this point just tell us where they are at

[Eleutheria5]

If they do this holiday thing, the IRGC will come out to disrupt, and could be the IDF will be waiting with firepower, and Reza and Trump planned this with Bibi. Could be.

[RWGinger]

Excellent point. I hope Musk providing Skylink( or what itis called) to Everyone in Iran is getting message to the people

[BeauBo]

Charshanbeh Suri - on the evening of 17 March this year.

Will this be the turning point, for the population to start coming back out onto the street, to battle the old regime?

[Carry_Okie]

Hopefully it doesn't end badly anywhere. Out of a thousand such celebrations, if even one ends up in the IRGC mowing them down Pahlavi and Trump will be blamed.

Arm those "Iranian" people so that they can gun down their Arab overlords.

[Sarah Barracuda]

When they were having their lil Quds rally, that was the PERFECT time to off them, they were out there, yeah surrounded by human shields but those people stand with the regime so honestly I would have offed them too, who cares..but yeah, the Iranians who want freedom, all they have to do is stay home and tell the IDF where the IRGC is at and let them do the rest

[Texas Eagle]

Surely if islamists can observe islamist holidays in a Christian country then islamist countries should be quite welcoming of other people observing their holy days in their country shouldn't they?

HA! Yeah, right .

[Eleutheria5]

Their overlords, of whatever ethnicity, have training, discipline, and experience intimidating crowds. The crowds have no such thing, though some of them have faced gunfire and intimidation recently. They probably don’t know the first thing about firearms or keeping formation. This’d be a good time to play a Trump card of some sort.

[Eleutheria5]

Diversity is their strength./sarc

[doc maverick]

“If they do this holiday thing, the IRGC will come out to disrupt, and could be the IDF will be waiting with firepower, and Reza and Trump planned this with Bibi. Could be.”
Now that would be really entertaining!
Praying for Israeli/US militaries and Persian freedom.

[Carry_Okie]

Their overlords, of whatever ethnicity, have training, discipline, and experience intimidating crowds. The crowds have no such thing,

Agreed. It's a bad choice of tactics. Better to be knocking them off one by one, or taking a barracks while they sleep. Guerrilla tactics are harder to counter, easier to supply, and carry lower aggregate risks. They do take more time.

[Eleutheria5]

On the other hand, how many military, police and IRGC defectors are there, willing to take up arms and all?