Iran: Widespread Boycott of the Regime’s Quds Day Rally

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On Friday, the Iranian people widely boycotted the “Quds Day” rallies announced by the Iranian regime in Tehran and other cities across Iran turning the rallies into a massive defeat for the clerical regime.

The turn out was so low that the state broadcasters failed to produce some scenes with large attendance despite massive editing of the films.

The Iranian public, who utterly disgust the regime’s aggressive policies and its military interventions in the region, even refused to go to the streets to do their daily routine.

The regime leaders and state-run media had began urging public to attend the “Quds Day” rallies since two weeks ago. State institutions unsuccessfully tried to lure large crowds to the streets by offering free bus and subway services in Tehran and other cities across the country.

Although the regime had bused in members of its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and Basij paramilitary force as well as plainclothes agents, the turn out was very low.

According to the reports, small crowd showed up in most of the ten announced rally routes in Tehran. In the major rally routes in the city such as Jomhouri street a very small crowd showed up and in Azadi Square most of the buses transporting people for the rally were empty.

In other cities including the city of Qom the streets were empty. In cities such as Isfahan, Natanz, Rasht, Boukan, Islamabad West, Kashan, Saqez, Nahavand, Shiraz, Karaj, only a handful of people attended the rallies and there was hardly a crowd. The protesters did not even bother to repeat the slogans aired by state-run loudspeakers.

(Source: NCRI)

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