A group of Daesh minded mobs of the Iranian fundamentalist regime have vandalized the statue of a famous Iranian hero from the era of the Iranian constitutional revolution. This heinous act was carried out in broad daylight and while the Iranian regime’s security guards and police were watching, but refusing to stop them or to arrest the gang.
The incident took place on Saturday at As’ad Fort in Junqan, in Iran’s central Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province.
The statue belonged to the General As’ad Bakhtiari, one of the heroic leaders of Iran’s 1906 constitutional revolution. The statue has huge sentimental value to the local public.
The statute was supposed to be unveiled in the coming days when the fort was supposed to be transformed into a museum on the constitutional revolution.
The local mullah in Junqan had protested the prospective inclusion of the statue in the museum in the days before it was desecrated, and locals suspect that his agents had carried out the defilement. Local reports say the mullah in the town has now fled the area.
The incident has provoked a string of protests by Iranian Bakhtiaris in nearby towns.
Protests took place on Monday in Ahwaz (south-west Iran), Masjed Soleyman (western Iran), Shahr-e Kord (central Iran) and Shushtar (western Iran) against the destruction of the statue. In all of the protests, the demonstrators were attacked by the suppressive state security forces.
During the demonstration in Ahwaz, a number of Bakhtiari compatriots were arrested by the suppressive state security forces.