protests and uprising<\/a>\u00a0that started last December continue in many cities across the country.<\/p>\nLast Friday, August 10, 2018, during the soccer match between Tehran and Tabriz clubs at Azadi stadium, thousands of spectators expressed their anger at the oppressive regime by shouting \u201cDeath to the Dictator\u201d despite the fact that the regime\u2019s authorities had stationed a large number of their Basiji forces affiliated to the IRGC intelligence and IRGC guards. The regime had also stationed many intelligence agents\u00a0and anti-riot guard as well as plainclothes agents among the crowd in order to prevent the youths\u2019 protest.<\/p>\n
Bringing anti-riot guards into the stadium was an unprecedented measure. Nevertheless, despite all these measures, the brave youth broke the obstacles that had already been set up in the stadium stand, and loudly chanted slogans \u201cDeath to the Dictator\u201d and \u201cSecurity Force, shame on you, savage, savage\u201d all over the stadium. They resisted the brutal attack of repressive forces and punished a number of them.<\/p>\n
The regime\u2019s tricks for making the two clubs\u2019 fans fight each other for deviating the youths chanting did not work and Azerbaijani Iranians and supporters of Tabriz Tractor-Sazi Club also chanted \u201cEverywhere in Iran is my homeland; Long live Azerbaijan\u201d. In addition, outside the stadium, the young people who were not allowed to enter the stadium clashed with the repressive forces.<\/p>\n
The protests continued even after the match ended and spread to Azadi Square in Tehran. Anti-riot guards and plainclothes mercenaries rushed into the crowd with their motorcycles and injured and battered a number of them. Brave youths, however, confronted them courageously.<\/p>\n
Source: PMOI\/MEK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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