Azeri agency reports anti-Armenian protest in Iran

Turan news agency
25 Apr 05

BAKU

A protest against the so-called Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey
was held in Tehran yesterday.

The head of the Baku bureau of the National Revival Movement of South
Azerbaijan (NRMSA), Huseyn Turkelli, has said that more than a
thousand people marched from Vali Asr square to the (?Mariam) Armenian
Church, expressing their protest at the falsification of history by
Armenians.

The demonstrators chanted slogans condemning the Iranian authorities
for cooperation with Armenia and urging Tehran to reconsider its
relations with Yerevan.

The demonstrators clashed with the police in the square outside the
church. However, it was impossible to disperse the protesters as
columns of demonstrators moved towards the St Sarkis Armenian
Church. The action lasted about two hours.

During the clashes, several people received injuries of varying degree
of severity. A group of NRMSA members, including well-known activists
(?Sahram and Mehdi Naimi), were arrested.

However, the Iranian authorities have allowed ethnic Armenians to mark
the “genocide day”. They held their protest in the square outside
Mariam Church.

[Passage omitted: names of several Armenian spiritual leaders who took
part in the protest]

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress