NCRI - Some 2,000 people took to the streets in protest to confiscation of their satellite dishes from their roof tops in Vakil-Abad district of Mashhad, northeast Iran, on Friday.  The protesters marched on the streets chanting slogans against the mullahs' president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The State Security Forces (SSF) -- mullahs' suppressive police -- and paramilitary Bassij Force clashed with the angry protesters. The SSF wounded a number of demonstrators and arrested a number of others.

Demonstrations in recent weeks in Mashhad, Tehran, Zahedan, Sepidar of Fars Province and that of the students in various parts of the country are sings of the Iranian people's hatred to the mullahs' inhuman regime. With their protests, they have displayed their determination to bring about change and establish democracy in Iran. In the midst of such upheavals in the country, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana's trip to Tehran to present another package of incentives to the leaders of the clerical dictatorship is doomed to fail.

The Iranian Resistance calls on the international community, in particular the European Union, to condemn the brutal suppression of the Iranian people and to recognize their right to resist against the mullahs' regime. It also calls for the referral of the Iranian regime's human rights dossier to the UN Security Council for action.   

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 13, 2008