Iran: mullahs’ operatives damage national-cultural heritages

                                           Scenes of the damaged Ass’ad Bakhtiary statue 

Bakhtiary Iranians in the city of Ahvaz, southwest Iran, staged a demonstration on Monday, May 16^th, protesting the damaging of national heritages and symbols of the Constitutional Revolution period [early 1900s] by operatives loyal to the mullahs’ regime and supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

Following the damages inflicted to the statue of Ass’ad Bakhtiary, a legend of the Constitutional Revolution who conquered Tehran, by the gangs and hoodlums of the mullahs’ regime in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiary Province, the Bakhtiary Iranian community held a demonstration protesting these measures that are considered an insult to Iran’s culture and history. Video footages of the damages inflicted on the Ass’ad Bakhtiary statue has been posted on the Internet, showing the police being present at the scene yet taking no action to prevent this hideous measures.

Prior to this reports indicated two individuals had damaged the statue following provocative remarks made by the Friday prayer imam in the city of Zinghan. According to this report the regime’s Friday prayer imam had fled the city terrified of the angry people. Youths and intellectuals of the Bakhtiary community staged a demonstration protesting this hideous measure and demanded the perpetrators who damaged the statue be punished.

The police attacked the demonstrators and arrested a number of the protesters.

Prior to this in a measure similar to Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) members in Syria and Iraq destroying the locals’ historical heritages, reactionary elements of the mullahs’ regime in Gilan Province (northern Iran) had inflicted damage to the statue of Mirza Kuchak Khan, a nationalist leader of the Iranian people. Reports in this regard went viral on the web in Iran.