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Not just in Tehran
13th of Aban demonstrations were NOT just in Tehran - eye witness accounts and videos are pouring in from Shiraz , Esfahan , Tabriz , Mazandaran(Nov. 3rd) , Mashhad , Ghom, Rasht , Ghazvin, Ahwaz , Kerman, Shahre Kord, Kashan(Nov. 3rd), Yasouj (Nov. 3rd), Arak, Zahedan, Kermanshah, and I am sure many more.
Protesting and being politically active is much harder in cities other than Tehran. Bellow is a translation from Alireza's blog. He writes beautifully, with dark, and tongue in cheek humor - a pleasure to read, not so easy to translate but certainly worth the try.
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Rural mates, Iran is not just Tehran you know! (by Alirza Rezayee)
Me, your unworthy servant (paraphrasing!) first off kiss all your hands because of all the things you have done under pressure that is a hundred times worse than Tehran, and all that you continue to do. Many years of living and working and studying in rural cities has given me the experience to know that movements in the very closed atmosphere of small cities is never an easy task. I know there are cities in which all the inhabitants share no more than five family names. And if they are not all cousins, they are still somehow or another related. Even if that is not the case, in a small city, even if they don't want to, people still see each other a thousand times everywhere and many general acquaintances form this way.
I know that if they grab the first person by the collar, if he doesn't have the exact directions to your house, for sure he will know twenty people who do. I know very well that selling people is many people's second occupation ... and considering all this, I also know that when ten basijis in a small street in Tehran can not control people, how open their hands are for enforcing control in other cities.
Maybe this is why, when something happens in rural cities, that incident echos ten times louder. Maybe that is the reason one action in other cities rattles the ground more than ten of those actions combined in Tehran. I have seen this and I know it too. If acquaintances and local connections sometimes restrict you, know that you are not alone. The big names in your city are filled with fear and paranoia, exactly for the same reason. That if they conduct themselves wrong how easily they will be recognized and found. How easy they can be looked up. How easily their reputation will be tarnished all over the city. How easy it would be when necessary to spread the news of their wrong doings everywhere. How simply they will have no choice to leave behind their posts and run away from that city ...
My mates from rural cities! Iran is not just Tehran. The grand 13th of Aban is also one of those days that we expect support from all of you ...