Epic 2009 rallies marked
Epic 2009 rallies marked

 Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on Sunday to mark the anniversary of mass rallies staged on December 30, 2009, to guard the principles of the Islamic Revolution and reinforce their solidarity with the system. On that day in 2009, known as the “Dey 9” in the Persian calendar, people took to […]

 Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on Sunday to mark the anniversary of mass rallies staged on December 30, 2009, to guard the principles of the Islamic Revolution and reinforce their solidarity with the system.

On that day in 2009, known as the “Dey 9” in the Persian calendar, people took to the streets in huge numbers in Tehran to show their strong protest against those who were claiming vote rigging in the presidential election.

The 2009 rally in Tehran is remembered as an “epic” occasion as it put an end to months of protests.

Before Dey 9, the protests were abused by the ill-wishers, including the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), who has a record in many terrorist activities in Iran and siding with Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran in the 1980s.

The months-long protests sometimes turned violent and led to some deaths.

Insistence on vote rigging was described as a “sedition” intended to divide the society.

Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps second-in-command, addressed the Sunday congregation in Tehran, saying Iran is powerful enough to stand against enemies in various areas, so much so that the military option against the country is not in enemies’ language anymore.

“Today, the hegemonic system is confused and has to admit Iran’s power. They signed the JCPOA [the 2015 nuclear deal] and then quit it, which shows their confusion. The U.S. spent trillions of dollars in Iraq and Syria, but had to leave the countries without having achieved anything, which shows their strategic defeat,” he said.

U.S. President Donald Trump on December 19 announced that U.S. troops had defeated the Daesh terrorists in Syria and he sought to pull some 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria.