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NCRI –\u00a0The Iranian regime prosecutor in Shiraz (Fars province, southern Iran) announced that the \u201cmain elements\u201d of the Cyrus day gathering and demonstration in Pasargadae cultural heritage complex are arrested. He said judicial case is made for these citizens and they will be dealt with \u201caccording to necessary judicial regulations.\u201d This judicial authority did not mention the names and number of the arrested people or any more details.<\/p>\n
According to the state-run ISNA news agency on October 31, Ali Salehi, public prosecutor of Shiraz, claimed: \u201cActions of these people had earlier been monitored by the security, intelligence and law enforcement apparatus,\u201d and added \u201cAfter conducting the necessary investigations, the leaders and main elements of the demonstration who attempted to chant unconventional and norm-breaking slogans were arrested for their anti-values activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
It should be mentioned that state-run media of both ruling factions described the popular annual gathering at Pasargadae as a move against the mullahs’ regime and called for confrontational measures against such gatherings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe slogans of demonstrators on Friday at Pasargadae showed that the anniversary of Cyrus is only a pretext to target the principle of the system (regime),\u201d a state media wrote and added, \u201cThe slogans of \u2018neither Gaza nor Lebanon\u2019 as well as \u2018freedom of thought cannot be [obtained] with beard and pashm [Ovine-wool-like beard, a metaphor for hypocrite mullahs]\u2019, which have been transferred from the streets of Tehran to the Marvdasht plains [Shiraz].\u201d<\/p>\n
Another state-run media wrote: \u201cDesigning a day as \u2018Cyrus day\u2019 is not unexpected. If the parliament and the country\u2019s cultural administrators attempt [to solve] this important issue, the road to destruction and polarization [of the society] will be closed on some people.\u201d<\/p>\n
It should be pointed out that on Friday October 28<\/a>, thousands of people from across the country gathered in Pasargadae calling<\/a> Cyrus the Great \u201cthe founding father of human rights\u201d and an \u201chonor for every Iranian.\u201d They chanted patriotic and anti-regime slogans such as: \u201cFreedom of thought cannot be with beards\u201d , \u201cDeath to the dictator\u201d , \u201cIran is our homeland, Cyrus is our father\u201d and \u201cThe clerical regime, only oppression, only war\u201d as well as \u201cMerciless commander (General) has plundered Iran\u201d and \u201cLet go Syria, think (take care) of us (address our situation.)\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NCRI – The Iranian regime prosecutor in Shiraz (Fars province, southern Iran) announced that the “main elements” of the Cyrus day gathering and demonstration in Pasargadae cultural heritage complex are arrested. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-21393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n