{"id":6933,"date":"2009-07-31T07:42:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T06:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-protests\/6933-suppressive-forces-open-fire-on-protestors-in-vali-asr-square"},"modified":"2020-01-09T02:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:13:24","slug":"suppressive-forces-open-fire-on-protestors-in-vali-asr-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-iran-protest\/suppressive-forces-open-fire-on-protestors-in-vali-asr-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppressive forces open fire on protestors in Vali Asr Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/fr\/images\/stories\/200\/ghiam\/594828_teheran_310x175.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"30 juillet cimeti\u00e8re de Behecht-e-Zahra \u00e0 T\u00e9h\u00e9ran\"   width=\"150\" height=\"85\" align=\"right\" \/>Nationwide uprising \u2013 Statement 128<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NCRI &#8211; According to the Social Headquarters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) inside Iran, on Thursday afternoon at Vali Asr Square and streets leading to it, extensive clashes took place among people and the Iranian regime\u2019s suppressive forces. Plainclothes agents on motorcycles chased people on streets and violently beat them with batons. A large number of youths were arrested and detained. When the forces failed to disperse the population in this area, they opened fire on protestors. People chanted, \u201cDeath to dictator,\u201d and \u201cKhamenei is a murderer, his rule is illegitimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At about 18:30 local time, special units suddenly attacked a crowd of people on Shariati Street in between the junctures of Motahari Street and Abbasabad Street. Dozens were brutally beaten and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people in Tehran on Thursday braved the scorching heat to take to the streets to mark the 40th day after the June 20th uprising and to remember that day\u2019s victims. In accordance with orders issued by the clerical regime\u2019s officials, the air conditioning system in Tehran\u2019s metro was turned off in order to dissuade people from participating in the protests by taking the city\u2019s metro.<\/p>\n<p>Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<br \/>July 30, 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide uprising &ndash; Statement 128 NCRI &ndash; According to the Social Headquarters of the People&rsquo;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) inside Iran, on Thursday afternoon at Vali Asr Square and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-6933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-statement-iran-protest","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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