2009 Iranian pro-government rallies

Iranian rallies December 2024 30 December 2009 Iranian pro-government rallies 9 Dey 88 demonstrations (1).jpg Pro-government protestors at a rally in Tehran Various cities in Iran In response to anti-government protests held three days earlier 30 December 2009 On 30 December 2009, pro-government rallies, also known as the "Dey 9 epic",https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/409614/Iran-marks-2009-rallies Iran marks 2009 rallies Tehran Times 31 December 2016 28 December 2019 took place in various Iranian cities, including Tehran,9 Dey, in TehranJanuary 2024 InternetArchiveBot yes irinn.ir Retrieved 16 November 2019 Shiraz, Arak, QomDiverse cities of Iran, 9th of Dey yjc.ir Retrieved 16 November 2019 and Isfahan.Isfahan, 9 Dey basijnews.ir Retrieved 16 November 2019 The rallies were hold in response to the Ashura protests, where protesters on that day did acts including "applauding, whistling, and engaging in other cheerful displays," which was viewed as violation of a "red line" and targeting Husayn ibn Ali and Ashura commemoration itself. The demonstrations and counter-demonstrations were connected to the disputed 2009 Iranian presidential election.https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gzdSHkZl-Vrcllkzr74NnWrIb7eA Iran regime supporters swarm streets 30 December 2009 AFP dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100126104749/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gzdSHkZl-Vrcllkzr74NnWrIb7eA 26 January 2010 Background 2009 Ashura Iran anti-government protest In protest against the results of the 2009 Iranian presidential election and the death of Hussein-Ali Montazeri, the former deputy supreme leader of Iran, demonstrators took to the streets on 27 December 2009, coinciding with Ashura, a Shia holy day. According to Ibrahim Moussawi, associate professor of Lebanese University and head of Hizbullah's media relations, the incident damaged "public relations" of the Iranian Green Movement with Iranian citizenry more than all events as the acts of the protesters on that day including "applauding, whistling, and engaging in other cheerful displays," was "widely" seen as violation of a "red line" and targeting Husayn ibn Ali and Ashura commemoration itself. Lolagar mosque in Tehran was set into fire by the "rioters", according to the State TV of Iran leading to death of "few" people in mosque.Editorial People killed in mosque fire during unrest-Iran TV http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKDAH130601 https://web.archive.org/web/20170113171328/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKDAH130601 dead 13 January 2017 12 January 2017 Reuters UK Various society groups including "marej-'e taqlid, the society of Iranian doctors, university student groups, the Iranian Parliament, Oil Industry Workers, the Iranian Women's Culture and Education Society, the Society of Iranian Teachers, the Iranian Professors Society, provincial governors, municipalities and bazaars" expressed their condemnation and many of them publicly asked for the "prosecution of the opposition leaders".Moussawi Ibrahim Shi&'ism and the Democratisation Process in Iran: With a focus on Wilayat al-Faqih 16 January 2012 Saqi 9780863568312 https://books.google.com/books?id=_kAhBQAAQBAJ&q=Desecration+of+Ashura+2009+protest&pg=PT157 23 January 2017 en In response to the Ashura protests, pro-government protesters hold a rally in a "show of force" three days later on 30 December (9 Dey in the Persian calendar) to condemn Green Movement protesters.Karami Arash Iran marks anniversary of anti-Green Movement protests http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/12/iran-anti-green-movement-protest-anniversary.html 12 January 2017 Al-Monitor 30 December 2014 en-us Rally A witness said, according to The New York Times, that "many demonstrators on Wednesday were taken to protest sites by dozens of buses and were given free chocolate milk, and the Associated Press said the government had given all civil servants the day off to attend the rallies".https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/middleeast/31iran.html?_r=1&ref=world In Tehran, Thousands Rally to Back Government 30 December 2009 The New York Times Nazila Fathi 1 May 2010 Participants numbered in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Slogans included "O free-willed leader, we are ready, we are ready" and "Death to Moussavi," Speakers included Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, and speakers called on opposition leaders to repent from their opposition to the government or be declared "enemies of God" and face the death penalty.January 2017 Population Observers differed on the size or representativeness of the demonstrations. One source called the main rally in the capital "possibly the largest crowd in the streets of Tehran since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's funeral in 1989."Another Iranian Revolution? Not Likely By FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN LEVERETT, 5 January 2010 But this was challenged by another source which stated that satellite pictures of the demonstration showed it having "far, far fewer people there than at recent opposition rallies, which numbered in the millions," and that instead of congregating in Azadi Square in Tehran, where the regime had "traditionally organized mass rallies to intimidate the opposition and the world", the rally was held in "a much smaller square" in the middle of city.The State of the Opposition is Strong, Abbas Milani, 8 January 2010 Commemoration The pro-government protest is commemorated annually in various cities of Iran.Iran Commemorates 2009 Pledge of Allegiance Rally https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/12/29/1281927/iran-commemorates-2009-pledge-of-allegiance-rally 12 January 2017 Tasnim News Agency See also 2009 Iranian election protests Iranian reform movement Iranian revolution Politics of Iran 2009 Iran poll protests trial References and notes 30em Category:2009 in Iran Category:Protests in Iran Category:2009 Iranian presidential election protests Category:December 2009 in Iran