Unrests in Iran quickly turn political, why?

Just a few days after the uprising of the people and the youth in city of Mahabad (northwestern Iran) and while the Kurdish cities were restive, last Friday, we had another protest move against the dictatorial regime by the youth attending a soccer match.

No wonder that Iranian regime leaders, including Khamenei and Rouhani, were warning of the explosive state of the society, especially the youth in Iran. Regime’s president Hassan Rouhani said, “We should be very watchful about the youth… our young generation is in a special situation”.

The supreme leader also said, “Today, the youth in our country are threatened by dangerous mentalities”. In another instant he warned: “The security forces need to have contingency plans for different levels of security conditions and they should be able to confront it.”

The Iranian people, especially the youth and women, are fed up with suppression in mullahs’ regime and this tyranny is quickly moving toward its demise. Following the uprising in Mahabad on May 8, we saw that the announcement of a tampered soccer match result in Tabriz on May 15 quickly turned into a revolt that disrupted the order in this city with a similar incident in Tehran on that same day. We had the youth clash with the security forces.

The youth in Tabriz first set the chairs and the facilities in the stadium on fire and then on their way out tore banners with the pictures of Rouhani. The unrest in Tabriz was unprecedented for this capital of Eastern Azerbaijan Province.

Similarly in Tehran, the youth demonstrated along the way from Azadi Stadium to Azadi Square and clashed with regime’s suppressive forces that were there to disperse the crowd. Clashes continued for several hours and the antiriot police was placed on alert.

Apprehensive of the expansion of the demonstrations, the dictatorial regime forces swarmed to the streets in Tabriz and Tehran where they hysterically attacked the youth. In Tehran, special guard units, water cannons, and horsemen units were brought in to terrorize the youth and disperse them. The youth braved the oppressive measures and stood together against the repressive forces.

During the uprising in Mahabad, a senior regime official had acknowledged that this phenomenon is not limited to Mahabad, but that in every city a small incident quickly turns political with dangerous security implications for the regime.

The Iranian people, especially the women and the youth, who are under the pressure of oppression and unemployment, poverty and hunger as a result of a devastated economy have the greatest loath for the religious fascism ruling Iran and they use every opportunity to show their rage against this regime.