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Video footage showed, on Thursday night, elements of the Iranian security forces attacking crowds of citizens who gathered outside the hospital where prominent Iranian singer-songwriter Muhammad Reza Shajarian died.
In the immediate aftermath of Shajran’s death, hundreds of his fans flocked to Jam Hospital in Tehran, where he was in a critical situation a few days ago.
And Shajarian’s meeting outside the hospital turns into a protest.# شجريان pic.twitter.com/EHqkbCI62K
– Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) October 8, 2020
In the eyes of the deployed policemen, men and women cried and some shouted slogans condemning the Iranian leader, Ali Khamenei, calling him a “dictator.”
Iranian activists posted video clips showing police officers beating crowds with batons and electric detonators, while there were reports from authorities restricting internet service in Tehran and other cities.
Iranian security forces attack a group of fans of artist Muhammad Reda with batons and electric detonators # شجريانThousands of fans of the artist, who had gathered in front of the “Jam” hospital in Tehran after hearing the news of his death.#KhameneiAnd the Iranian television that banned the broadcast of the songs of the singer Shajarian. pic.twitter.com/fKTLGMMa6f
– Iran International-Arab (@IranIntl_Ar) October 8, 2020
Shajarian has been battling cancer for several years. His son Humayun Shajarian, who is also a well-known artist, wrote this Thursday via “Instagram” under a black page that his father left “to meet his Lord.”
For half a century, Shajarian has embodied Iranian heritage and traditional music inside and outside of Iran.
The “professor”, whose popularity was compared by local media to the popularity of the late Egyptian “Lady of Arabian Song”, Umm Kulthum, is a patriotic symbol in Iran, and often had a controversial relationship with her authorities. country, either during the rule of the Shah or after the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
On the sidelines of the protests that followed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, Shajarian opposed the use of state radio for an earlier work he had written against Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi.
During this period of protests, which witnessed clashes between protesters and security forces, Shajarian released the song “Zaban Hash” (“The Language of Fire” in Persian), in a move that appeared to be an objection to the forces of security fired bullets at the protesters, especially since the lyrics of the song included the phrase “Put your gun is on the ground, bro.”
Shajarian explained during that period that his works are often linked to the political and social situation, even if he sang the works of poets who imprinted stages of the country’s rich cultural history, such as Jalal al-Din al-Rumi and Hafez al-Shirazi.
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