Shahriar City Hall demolition agents and police attacked the neighborhood of Dervishes in Shahriar city, suburb of the capital Tehran on Thursday, June 11, 2015 in order to bring down the newly built senior citizens’ nursing home belonged to the Dervishes community.
The demolition team started to throw out the senior citizens’ luggage’s and belongings battering anybody who would object to this brutal and inhumane measure. They brock the windows as they were faced by stiff resistance from the tenants.
The governorate in Shahriar had previously sent demolition teams to this area harassing and threatening them and taking picturing and filming the area
This was the second building belonging to the Dervishes that was being destroyed by the City Hall within last month. These agents always attack such neighborhoods under the cover of renovation.
Last month, another Dervishes center in Tehran was raided and finally closed down. Reports from Tehran indicates that hundreds of Dervishes are planning to go to Tehran in next few days to protest against such barbaric actions.