National Wrath Against Rioters
Iranians stage mass rallies to condemn foreign-backed unrest
Gov’t declares three days of mourning
Iranian people in their millions flocked to the streets in major cities and towns across the country on Monday to denounce the latest bout of deadly terrorist acts by armed elements hijacking rightful public demands and protests to destroy and set ablaze military and government buildings.
The nationwide demonstrations — themed ‘The motherland is our redline’ — took place after two weeks of US-Israeli backed riots that seized on public protests against livelihood woes stemming from the national currency depreciation.
Instigated by expressions of support on behalf of US President Donald Trump as well as Zionist-relayed instructions, armed groups and individuals in various cities, including the capital Tehran, turned the protests into violent clashes by dispatching firearms and Molotov cocktails to streets, claiming innocent lives and destroying and setting on fire an assortment of economic centers, religious and public sites, busses, and urban amenities.
In the Monday rally in Tehran, people converged on Enqelab (Revolution) Square to condemn the violent unrest, armed attacks by rioters, killing of people, acts of vandalism, attacks on military, administrative and medical centers, desecration of mosques, and burning of copies of the Qu’ran.
Chanting slogans in denunciation of widespread havoc wreaked by rioters, the demonstrators voiced their unbridled support for the Islamic Establishment and called on the Judiciary to severely deal with perpetrators of such terrorist acts.
The participants also waved Iranian national flags and called out, “Death to the US”, “Death to Israel”, and “Down with seditionist instigator.”
Apart from Tehran, the biggest of rallies were held in Isfahan, Mashhad, Kerman, Tabriz and Zahedan.
In a statement after a cabinet meeting on Sunday night, the government of President Masoud Pezeshkian declared three days of national mourning in honor of those who lost their lives in the resistance against the recent US and Israeli-incited unrest in the country.
The statement said the Iranian nation suffered firsthand experience of Daesh-style criminal and terrorist acts, which resulted in the martyrdom of “our beloved countrymen, including the Basij volunteer forces, police and security personnel.”
The statement underlined that such violence and crimes had not seen before, except in the actions of US-sponsored Daesh terrorists.
Since December 28, the rioters backing monarchy have vandalized public properties, blocked streets, attacked the administrative buildings and Police stations, and killed or injured a yet-to-be-specified number of ordinary people as well as security and law enforcement forces.