The clerical regime, in fear of protest movements, has resorted to extensive measures to heat up the sham rallies of February 10 (anniversary of the revolution).
1. Scores of plain clothes agents have been deployed around the city. These agents appear in different clothes and occupations to pretend normalcy.
2. A high number of the regime intelligence agents in bazaar, pedestrian bridges and other parts of the city are engaged in spying and controlling the movements of people in these areas.
3. A lot of control cameras have been secretly installed in various areas including within the flags in parks and streets around the city, in order for the regime to be able to control any kind of movement by the people. People show cameras to each other and tease about the repressive measures of the regime.
4. In Azadi Square, from 9:00 PM on Saturday February 9 until the end of the rallies a curfew would be in place and in many other streets restriction of movement applies.
5. Employers and factory owners have been given a quota for the forced participation of their workers in the demonstrations.
6. Employees in Esfahan and Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari provinces have been threatened that if they do not participate in marches, they would be reprimanded in writing and they would be deemed absent for 5 days.
7. All schools in the country have been given a quota for participating in the demonstrations and students have been threatened that if they do not participate, their discipline grade would be lowered.
8. In some schools including in Semnan classes have been closed for preparation for the march.
9. Taxi owners have been forced to install bars on the rear of cars to hold the regime’s flag that is known as the Scorpion flag among the people.
10. Nevertheless the regime intends to fill the main routes of the march in Tehran with the military and police forces that would be transferred to Tehran from different cities. The Bassij has instructed each city’s Bassij quota and the number of buses they have to dispatch to Tehran. In the instructions, the location of each city’s Bassijis in Tehran’s march has been identified. Those Bassijis who bring more people than their quota will receive remunerations.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 7, 2013