The Director General of Communications and International Affairs of Qom Municipality has announced that the urban advertisement of Qom’s 1978 uprising has been started.
Following that Ayatollah Khamenei addressed via video link a group of people of Qom on the occasion of a 1978 popular uprising in the holy city, several meetings were held in the Municipality’s Strategic Committee in order to inaugurate the urban advertisement of Qom’s 1978 movement, said Mehdi Kalantarzadeh in an interview.
Kalantarzadeh also stated that to hold the movement, professional design teams in Qom have been invited to cooperate so that the Supreme Leader’s statements can be installed on banners across the city.
Ayatollah Khamenei addressed a group of people of Qom on the anniversary of the popular uprising in the holy city against the former US-backed Pahlavi regime in 1978.
The January 9, 1978 uprising in Qom is seen as a very important historical juncture because it acted a precursor to more mass demonstrations in other cities across Iran, shaking the foundations of the despotic Pahlavi regime before finally toppling it in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The uprising was a reaction to the publication of an article titled “Iran and the Red and Black Colonialism” on the Persian-language Ettela’at daily, which had brazenly desecrated Imam Khomeini — the Islamic Revolution’s late leader and founder of the Islamic Republic.