Iran prepares for Holy Protection Week

Iran is preparing to celebrate the Holy Protection Week, Radio Iran reported the Deputy Commander of the Basij Resistance Force Ali Fazli as saying.

Fazli said that this year’s celebration promises to be more spectacular than last year’s.
He said that theatrical performances, harking back to the 32 operations carried out by the Iranian army in Iraq, will be held in all Iranian provinces.

Fazli stressed that the theatrical performances were designed to inform young people about the Iran-Iraq war.

The army forces, Basij Forces, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will assist in the performances, he added.

A book fair titled Holy Protection Week will be organized in Mashhad. The country’s universities will hold activities to commemorate the war’s victims, he added.

The Holy Protection Week is marked annually in Iran in commemoration of the Iran-Iraq war, which began 30 years ago today. Military parades demonstrating military equipment are being held in Tehran and other cities this week.

The Iran-Iraq war began on Sept. 22, 1980, when the Iraqi army attacked the Iranian province of Khuzestan. The war ended by concluding a ceasefire agreement on August 20, 1988. The border between the two countries remained unchanged.


/Trend/