Tehran Governor: Naming a Street After Master Shajarian in Tehran is Not Legal
The governor of Tehran says that the city council has not sent any resolution for a street to be named after Shajarian, and naming any street after him is not legal. A group has changed the name of Shajarian Street in Tehran to Fakhrizadeh.
Isa Farhadis, the governor of Tehran, regarding the change of the Shajarian Street sign said that the Tehran City Council “has not sent us any resolution for a street to be named after Shajarian”.
According to ILNA news agency, Farhadis added: “Until a resolution comes and we approve and announce it, action in this regard is not legal” and “the municipality installed and named the sign in violation of the law”.
He also referred to people who removed the “Master Shajarian” sign and replaced it with the name “Martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh” and said: “If a sign has been installed and someone changes it, it is still an illegal action. The municipality committed the first violation, and whoever removed it committed the second violation”.
A few days ago, the news of installing the Shajarian Street sign in Tehran was published along with its photo. However, a few people on Monday, the 2nd of Dey, in protest of this action, changed the street name from “Master Shajarian” to “Martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh”.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was the director of the Defense Ministry’s Organization of Researching and Innovation and one of the key figures behind Iran’s “nuclear defense”. He was assassinated on the 7th of Azar on the Absard road, about 80 kilometers east of Tehran.
The Asr-e Iran website, which published images of these individuals, wrote that among these few people, “the father of Martyr Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was also seen”. He was the commercial deputy of Natanz nuclear site who was assassinated in Dey month of 1391 (2012-2013) after leaving his home.
Based on this news, Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, the head of the cultural and social commission of the city council, in response to this action, wrote on his Twitter that after Fakhrizadeh’s death, Tehran City Council changed the name of the Sanaaye Street in district 1 (his workplace) with urgency after his name and over 45 percent of the naming in this period was named after “martyrs” of the nation. He criticized those who removed Master Shajarian’s name, saying that “it is too much to expect tolerance for the nation’s symbols”.
The Tehran governor claims that the municipality has not sent any resolution for naming a street after Master Shajarian, while on the 25th of Aban, the ISNA news agency quoted Hojjat Nazari, a member of the cultural and social commission of Tehran City Council, saying that the previous resolution of this council regarding naming a street after Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been implemented.
According to Nazari, the Tehran mayor finally “after repeated follow-ups by city council members and also public demand” announced the city council resolution for implementation, and on this basis it was decided that Felaak Street would be registered under the name of Shajarian, a master of Iranian music and singing.
He also said: “This name change should have happened about two years ago, at the time when the council approved the change of street name to his name and several other scientific and cultural figures of the country, but unfortunately it did not happen, and we are very sorry that today this street is being named at a time when the great Master Shajarian is no longer with us.”
Hojjat Nazari had emphasized that naming streets is among the duties and legal authorities of the city council, and this council in the last five periods has acted on naming new urban passages and spaces as well as changing their names.
This member of the cultural and social commission of Tehran City Council, like Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, also clarified that more than half of the naming done was after individuals whom he referred to as “esteemed martyrs of the Islamic Revolution, the Sacred Defense, martyrs of the Holy Shrine and veterans”.
Source: DW
