Tehran Governor: Naming Professor Shajarian on a street in Tehran is not legal
The governor of Tehran says the city council has not submitted any resolution to name a street after Shajarian, and it is not legal to name any street after him. A group has changed the name of Shajarian Street in Tehran to Fakhrizadeh.
Regarding the change of the sign on Shajarian Street, Tehran Governor Issa Farhadi said that the Tehran City Council "has not sent us any resolution to name a street after Shajarian."
According to ILNA news agency, Farhadi added: "Until a resolution is passed and we approve and announce it, action in this regard is not legal," and "the municipality has installed and named the sign illegally."
He also referred to the 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 act. The first offense was committed by the municipality, and the second offense was committed by the person who removed it.”
A few days ago, news of the installation of a sign on Ostad Shajarian Street in Tehran was published, along with a photo of it. However, on Monday, January 2nd, several people changed the name of “Ostad Shajarian” Street to “Martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh” in protest of this action.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of the Defense Ministry's Research and Innovation Organization and one of the key figures behind Iran's "nuclear defense," was assassinated on December 27 on Absard Road, about 80 kilometers east of Tehran.
The Asr-e-Iran website, which published the pictures of these people, wrote that among these people is the father of martyr Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. He was the deputy commercial director of the Natanz nuclear site who was assassinated in January 2012 after leaving his home.
Based on the same news, Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, head of the Cultural and Social Commission of the City Council, wrote on Twitter in response to this action that after Fakhrizadeh was killed, the Tehran City Council urgently renamed Sanayi Street in District 1 (his workplace) after him, and more than 45 percent of the names during this period were named after “martyrs” of the homeland. He criticized those who have removed Professor Shajarian’s name, saying that “expecting tolerance for symbols of society is not asking too much.”
While the Tehran governor claims that the municipality has not sent him any resolution to name a street after Professor Shajarian, on November 15, ISNA News Agency quoted Hojjat Nazari, a member of the Tehran City Council's Cultural and Social Commission, as saying that the council's previous resolution to name a street after Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been implemented.
According to Nazari, the mayor of Tehran has finally announced the city council's resolution for implementation "after repeated follow-ups by city council members and the demands of the people," and on this basis, Flamak Street was to be registered in 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 same time as the council approved the renaming of a street after him and several other scientific and cultural figures in the country, but unfortunately it did not happen. We are very sorry that this street is being named today in a situation where the great Master Shajarian is no longer around."
Hojjat Nazari emphasized that naming streets is one of the city council's legal duties and powers, and that the council has taken steps in the last five terms to name new urban streets and spaces, as well as change their names.
This member of the Cultural and Social Commission of the Tehran City Council, like Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, had also stated that more than half of the names given were in the names of people whom he had referred to as "precious martyrs of the Islamic Revolution, the Sacred Defense, the martyrs of the shrine, and the veterans."
Source: DW
