Preventing people from attending the tomb of Mohammad Mossadegh
On the anniversary of the death of former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, security forces prevented people from attending his grave.
Hossein Mousavian, head of the Central Council of the Fifth National Front in Ahmedabad, said that security agents prevented people from reaching Dr. Mossadegh's grave and turned their buses back.
Moussavian considered Mossadegh a figure who not only nationalized oil but, in his words, "revived our Iranian pride and character and recorded it in history."
The head of the Central Council of the Fifth National Front said: "In all the years after the coup, the former authoritarian and dictatorial government was afraid of Mossadegh's name and his name should not be mentioned anywhere. Today, the authoritarian government does not believe in freedoms and follows in the footsteps of the previous dictatorial regime and behaves in the same way, not allowing Dr. Mossadegh's devotees to lay flowers on his grave and recite a fatiha on the anniversary of his death."
Mohammad Mossadegh, the thirty-fifth Prime Minister of Iran, died in exile on March 4, 1966.
Source: Radio Farda
