Iran – election – statement no. 6
Tehranis stage large-scale demonstrations across the capital, express jubilation over election boycott Reports from Iran indicate that simultaneous with the decisive boycott of the election in Tehran and other cities, residents of Tehran are expressing their jubilation by pouring out onto streets and chanting slogans against the mullahs’ sham election and in support of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect.
At present, a large crowd has gathered from Vali-e Asr to Monirieh squares and are chanting “cry of every Iranian is freedom,” “Maryam [Rajavi] was our leader.” The protests have turned Tehran’s environment against the regime.
Tehranis also staged gatherings in Fatemi Street, Mellat and Laleh parks.
The people are waiting for the dark to come out onto the streets and stage a major demonstration against the mullahs’ rule and in support of the Resistance. According to latest reports, people in Tehran set a vehicle of the State Security Forces on fire in protest to the mullahs’ election farce.
In its 6:00 pm broadcast from Tehran, Aljazeera reported, “hundreds of Iranians held a demonstration in Tehran and reiterated the call for the boycott of the Presidential election and the establishment of a democratic regime in Iran. Police forces confronted the protesters and arrested five. At least eight were injured in clashes between the police and the demonstrators.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 17, 2005