Brigadier General Qasem Soleimani, the Commander of IRGC Quds Forces joined the people’s Bahman 22nd parade in Vali-e-Asr Intersection, and was highly welcomed by the people.
Demonstrators carried banners which read “I am Revolutionary,” and they expressed their strong support for recent remarks by the Supreme Leader about US, saying that “I am not a diplomat, but a Revolutionary.”
Azadi Sq., immersed by the people in joys and excitement of celebration of Revolution, and was inundated with flowers by the Army helicopters.
After recital of the Quran by an international Iranian reciter, Karim Mansouri, people chanted “ Khomeini, O Imam” in Azadi Sq., then a select group of Quranic Festival choired Fajr Verse from Quran.
The IRGC Parachute Brigade presented the parade with parachuting ceremony in the Bahman 22nd in Azadi Sq.
The parachutes inundated the parade with flowers in Azadi Sq.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army marching band performed the Revolutionary chant “Be Eternal, O Bloody Bahman,” imparting a very special and Revolutionary atmosphere to Azadi Sq.
The Iran’s Minister of Housing and Urban Development Ali Nikzad, Hojatol Eslam Ali Saeedi, Ayatollah Movahhedi Kermani, Brigadier General Rahim Safavi, Lotfollah Furouzandeh, and Ali Saeedloo, International Deputy-President, and Mohammad Shariatmadari, former Ministry of Commerce also joined the demonstrators of Bahman 22nd parade.
In the course of the parade, the Bahman 22nd Statement was read. People’s chanting “Allahu Akbar, Khamenei our Leader” with every article of the Statement being read reverberated in Azadi Sq.
The Head of Iran’s Judiciary joined the demonstrators in the parade. Sadeq Amoli Larijani has joined the demonstrators in 10:35 AM in the Eskanderi-Azadi Intersection.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is now addressing the demonstrators in Azadi Sq. here in Tehran.
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MNA
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Publish Date: 10 February 2013 - 13:40
TEHRAN, Feb. 10 (MNA) – Iranian officials have participated in Bahman 22nd anniversary public rallies, Qasem Soleimani, the Commander of IRGC Quds Forces being among them.