Municipality News

Cycling event held in Qom

The big cycling event was held on the occasion of the birth of Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra (PBUH) and the Ten-Day down celebrations.

The cycling tour was coordinated by the Cultural and Sports Organization of Qom Municipality.

The big tour started from Nabovvat Square and after passing Amini Bayat Square, Tohid Square and then under the Nirougah bridge, the route to Imamzadeh Seyyed Masoom ended.

It is worth mentioning that this ceremony was held with the participation of about 500 cyclists and the coordination of Qom Municipality Cultural and Sports Organization, Roshd Advertising Group, Ali Ibn Abitaleb (AS) Corps, Qom Province Cycling Board, and Qom Province Traffic Police.

The Ten-Day Dawn celebrations have got off to an ebullient start in Iran, marking the run-up to the 42nd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the the US-backed Pahlavi regime.

The annual festivities commemorating the moment the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, disembarked from an Air France jumbo jet to a massive welcome back home, ending his exile in Paris.

Forty-two years ago, millions of Iranians thronged Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport to catch a glimpse of the return from almost 15 years of exile of the iconoclast at whose impending arrival the British-installed and US-backed Shah had fled the country.

The celebrations culminate on February 10, marking the resounding triumph of the Islamic Revolution which freed Iran from domestic despotism and foreign hegemony.  The victory came under the astute leadership of Imam Khomeini who ended 2,500 years of monarchy in Iran.