Two residents of a house in Shahr-e-kord could not believe their eyes when agents of the regime forced access to their property over a locked gate on 15 January 2013 and were destroying a large tent in the courtyard.
In the courtyard of the house, the owner had set up a tent to hold the weekly gatherings with members of the Gonabadi-dervish order of his city.
The Gonabadi dervishes are since long a thorn in the flesh of the regime in Iran because they represent by their positive and human values a version of Shia Islam which endangers and contradicts the legitimacy of the principle of the rule of the supreme leader (Velayat-e-faghi).
The Ammariyoun party and the Didebân Center (Article) have been maintaining for years campaigns against various groups in Iran that have been defined as enemies of the revolution. These groups include Baha’i, converted Christians, Sunnis and dervishes. Again and again it comes to the destruction of cemeteries, historical sites and prayer and meeting houses of these groups. Leaders of the groups are murdered, harmed by slander or arrested and locked up under unclear accusations.
When the two occupants (Mansour Saffarian and Mehdi Davari) protested against the illegal actions of the civilian agents, they were immediately arrested. But the uproar had brought neighbors, who do not belong themselves to the Dervishes, to the plan to immediately alert some dervishes, who were at that moment present at a funeral at a local cemetery. At the same time, other neighbors obstructed the way for the civilian agents to continue destroying the tent.
The Dervishes of the city rushed from the cemetery to the house to defend the property. Meanwhile an excavator and fire trucks were standing outside the house. Police and Pasdaran assembled and blocked the access of the surrounding streets.
The couageous and strong appearance of dervishes led to the conditional release of the two arrested men by the police. According to reports, around 4,000 dervishes camped around the house during the night in order to protect it from being damaged. One of the requirements of the police was the dispersal of the protesting crowd. But the Dervish know the tricks of the Pasdaran. They feared that their house would be destroyed by fire in the middle of the night, as in Qom, in Boroujerd or as in other places in Iran during the last eight years.
Video of the events on Facebook.
Interview on the attack on Radio Koucheh.
Source: Mehriran.de