Protests against a television program in Iran - Global Voices in Spanish

Sarzamine Kohan

Protests against

television series called Sarzamine Kohan (Tierra Antigua) erupted in mid-February in several cities in Iran, Dezful and Ahvaz including in Khuzestan province, rich in oil. Protesters indicate that the program insulted the Bakhtiari ethnicity and the role played by leaders in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.

one program dialog fiction, is said [fa] that bakhtyaris are “the servico of the English”, which means that they were traitors. Sixty members of parliament wrote [fa] a letter of repudiation Iranian state television complaining about this representation.

Bakhtiari

??ethnicity, living mainly in Chahar Mahal, Bakhtiari and parts of the province of Khuzestan, Lorestan and Isfahan, played an important role in the history of Iran.

Festivals in Dezful

Freedom Messenger

shared several filming a demonstration in Dezful, which took place on Friday 14.

Several netizens tweeted on controversial series.

Tevis

tweeted [fa]:

Today, they destroyed Bakhtiari, tomorrow they will with other ethnic groups.

The_Sina tweeted [fa]:

Here are pics from the event in Masjed Soleiman held on Friday, February 15. If you protest, do it the right way, without violence.

Mehdi Mohseni

??previously tweeted

The third channel

Iran (which transmits the controversial series) Bakhtiari music touched several times today. Likely to mitigate the current atmosphere.