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Thousands rush toward southern Tehran to help demonstrators
SMCCDI (Information Service)
June 20, 2003
Thousands and thousands have rushed toward the southern and pou suburbs of Tehran in order to help or support, by their presences, those desherited who defied the regime, this afternoon, in order to make a massive protest in the localities of Nassim Shahr of Eslam Shahr.
Heavy tarffic jams are blocking mort arteries which is unprcedented for this area and shows this cement of Unity getting solidified between the different layers of the population.
Violent clashes rock the area, earlier in the afternnon, as groups of demonstrators tried to approach the warehouses of the GTC where foods and different items are stocked by the government.
The situation on the terrain is very tense and thousands of unusual and non residents are in the area waiting for the dark night in order to start the 11th consecutive night of unrests.
Unfortunatly and for a "specific" purpose the foreign reporters and news agencies located in the Iranian capital stated, today, that action decreased, yesterday evening, which is totally false or due "possibly" but astonishingly to their earlier presence than 23:00 (local time) in the areas of sothern and especially easten Tehran with the locality of Tehran pars at its epicenter.
Neverless, thousands and thousands of residents inflicted another hot night to the regime and its leaders.
The demonstrators and protesters
In the early hours of June 20 clashes between anti-government demonstrators and members of Islamic militant groups rocked eastern and western areas of the Iranian capital and other cities of the country. Protesters call for a nationwide referendum on the political future of the country. In the city of Shadegan, Khoozestan province, security forces opened fire on demonstrators. In other cities police sided with demonstrators, not letting Islamic militants attack them.
According to the Student Movement Coordinating Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI), violent clashes took place in Tehran when government forces stopped a column of demonstrators heading toward a residential neighborhood where the Iranian trade elite live.
In Tehran's suburbs, Karadj and Tehran Pars, police did not allow militants to come nearer students, chanting slogans "Referendum" and "Resign!" in support of a nationwide vote on the political future of the country and in favor of the replacement of the political leadership in Iran.
The SMCCDI reported that demonstrators have changed their tactics, simultaneously organizing small protest actions in various places and thus forcing Islamic militant groups, aligned with the regime’s leader Ali Khamenei, to disperse. People in major cities help demonstrators escape police, giving them shelter in their houses .
Several people are said to have been wounded in Tehran overnight, and several more arrested. Islamic militants smashed front windows of passing-by cars that horned in support of demonstrators or marked them red by paint spray.
In the city of Rafsandjan, dozens of demonstrators were beaten and arrested by fundamentalists. The SMCCDI reported that a local office of Bassijis, a pro-government paramilitary volunteer force, was subjected to an armed attack in Esfahan province.
It is reported that today a conservative ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi required in his Friday sermon death sentences for those arrested during clashes. In the evening there was a report of heavy clashes beginning in the poor suburbs of Eslam Shahr city.
Source: SMCCDI
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