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December 15, 2009
Iran Khabar Agency
Translated to English by Reza Eshteraki for Persian2English
Two hundred religious groups in Tehran lost their permit. Based on reports received, the authorities of the ‘Moharram Crisis’ that has taken shape in Tehran annulled the permits of mourning processions for 200 groups in the last few days.
The coup government of Ahmadinejad began attempts to influence religious procession groups since two years ago by forming cases and issuing permits for them. In the last few days and as time approaches the first days of Moharram, the government has gone forward to annul the permit for 200 religious groups. These procession groups belong to people that are not supporters of the Ahmadinejad coup government.
The authorities of the ‘Moharam Crisis’ will go through the permits for mourning processions and religious groups. This was previously done by the police and only to protect public discipline and prevent clashes of religious groups in different neighborhoods of Tehran that occurred due to local rivalries. But the government is in a deep crisis and faces ever expanding popular protests and that is why it has formed this authority of ‘Crisis’ to prevent vast protests to take place by granting permits to the government to support religious procession groups while annulling the permits of other groups or forcing them under its control with strict security measures.
[...] * The regime is now seriously considering the fact that it might just have to provide the permit for the march. [...]