Tehran, Iran – For the first time in decades, the vast square around the iconic Tehran Azadi Tower (Freedom) was filled with cars and motorcycles, and not crowded parades, at the time of the commemoration of the 1979 uprising. influence on the Islamic Republic.
Thousands of state-organized and private vehicles arrived on pre-arranged routes in the capital and across Iran on Wednesday at the 42nd anniversary, which this year was threatened by the COVID pandemic. -19.
To review health protocols in a country that has suffered more than 58,000 deaths and is worried about a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the run-up to the end-of-year holidays at the end of March, it was ordered to people not going out for celebrations on foot.
Instead, spies were asked to decorate their cars so that they would look good in aerial photography, and express their delight by turning on their lights and turning on their wind cups.
The Azadi Tehran Tower, the main destination of every parade in the capital at the signal of a revolution, was slated to see military movements from the air and paratroopers descending. Revolutionary poems were read out over speakers.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) showed three types of locally made ballistic missiles in the marching route of Tehran. A native air defense system that put down an American drone in June 2019 was also on display.
Common messages against the US and Israel were also featured this year in slogans and flags.
Fleet ships made a symbolic march in the southern waters of Iran.
The US summit has returned
One week before the anniversary of the revolution, people were encouraged to sign up on a named website and select posters, texts and songs to share on social media.
All state television channels broadcast turn-related material, including live reports, interviews and documentaries with revolutionary and patriotic music.
The main topic of state television programming is how the Iranian revolution – which was hit by a US-backed shah – has survived despite the efforts and astronomy of western and Western powers. East.
Iran remains under a tough “maximum weight” campaign of economic sanctions first imposed by former President Donald Trump in 2018 after he dropped Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal by the powers of the world.
President Joe Biden has said he wants to take a diplomatic route to restore the landmark agreement, but there is disagreement over who should return to full compliance with the treaty first stopped it.
Iran, which began in 2019 scaling back its commitments under the treaty in response to the sanctions, has said it will not return from its position that the U.S. must first lift sanctions from they broke the agreement first.
‘Resist until you get the last win’
In a televised speech, President Hassan Rouhani said Iran had not emphasized US sanctions, which Iran repeatedly cited as an example of “economic and medical terror”.
As he commemorates the hundreds of thousands who died during an eight-year war that began in 1980 when Saddam Hussein of Iraq invaded Iran, the president called it a “critical economic war”. new U.S. sanctions.
From expanding Iranian infrastructures to encouraging non-oil exports and fighting corruption, Rouhani delivered most of his one-hour speech to talk about the administration’s ongoing performance. going out before and after the sanctions.
He said: “Iranian people are in debt all over the world” because if they had not upheld US sanctions and if Iran had also abandoned the nuclear deal, the U.S. and Israel would have been on target. their accomplishment would undermine global security.
He also described the U.S.’s repeated shortcomings in re-imposing multilateral sanctions on Iran in the UN Security Council as “an unprecedented event in U.S. and U.S. history. the world “.
“Everyone knows that the economic war has been won, but we must stand up to the final effect,” Rouhani said, urging Iranians to “participate most in the primary elections in June.
The way of peace
The president also said he was “proud” of his history of negotiating with world powers, saying that even Prophet Muhammad was negotiating and making agreements with his enemies for the benefit of his people. give to his people.
He reiterated Iran ‘s position that it is ready to return to full compliance with nuclear treaty promises as soon as other signatories do the same.
“The world and the region are second to none. Surely the path is political, surely this is the path of the world coming to an agreement with Iran, and God willing, we will succeed in it, ”said Rouhani.
According to a law passed by Parliament in December after the assassination of nuclear chief scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Rouhani administration must restrict access granted to the researchers of the Atomic Energy Group national before 21 February unless sanctions are lifted.