Chapter 593: Iranian Celebration
Today's Tehran crowd is the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, and the capital, Tehran, welcomes more than a million visitors from all over Iran.
This day of the year is the busiest day in Tehran, and about three million Iranians are expected to participate in gatherings and marches.
When Fan's motorcade entered Tehran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps sent a guard of honor to greet him.
Because of Fan Yize's arrival, the Iranian government specially drew a guard of honor that was originally going to participate in the gathering to welcome Fan Yize's arrival.
The enthusiasm of the Iranians, the streets of Tehran are covered with all kinds of slogans, or portraits of the spiritual leader Khamenei, all kinds of cheering crowds, walking on the sidewalks, the atmosphere is warm, and the sound of cheers and shouts is everywhere.
The slogans along the streets, in addition to the good congratulations to the country, are more of the slogans that the people themselves are persistent: Down with the United States, down with Israel, similar slogans are the most, some people directly hold these slogans, and people cheer and greet them wherever they go.
When the convoy came to the scene of the party, it was also in front of the square of the Iranian capital, and the whole square was full of people, holding high the Iranian tricolor flag, dancing their hands, and the crowd was undulating and lively.
Fan Yize had already thought that he had not seen such a warm scene for a long time, and the last time he saw a gathering of so many people was in another world, when he stepped onto the podium of the world's supreme leader, the scene of millions of people below cheering and cheering.
At this moment, the scene of that year seems to be vivid.
In front of the VIP passage on the square, Fan Yize's motorcade slowly stopped, and when Fan Yize stepped off the command car, the nearby Iranian people suddenly burst into enthusiastic cheers.
The Iranian female diplomat in the same car walked into the VIP channel with Fan Yize.
It is said to be a VIP passage, but it is actually a red carpet pulled up on the edge of the square, and the two sides are separated by a mobile fence to prevent crowding.
On both sides of the passage, there are Iran's three armed services honor guards, which are not only to reflect etiquette and military appearance, but also to maintain the smooth passage of VIPs.
As soon as Fan Yize's footsteps stepped on the red carpet, the Iranian people on both sides of the railing all stretched out their hands, as if to welcome some emperor superstar, cheering and wanting to shake hands with Fan Yize.
In the face of the excited Iranians, Fan Yize did not refuse the friendship of the Iranians, and after walking on the red carpet, he was like a superstar who was about to hold a concert, chatting with those fans one by one, and in the process, he was even pulled closer by several Iranian girls to take pictures together.
Looking at the excited crowd around him, Fan Yize was a little worried about what would happen if there was a riot, trampling and squeezing?
After all, there weren't many Iranian police officers at the scene who were maintaining order.
However, this did not happen, and at the end of the VIP passage, Fan Yize saw the new president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani.
Hassan Rouhani is a moderate conservative in Iran, which has been run by hardliners for a long time, after many years of winning the presidential election.
Of course, this kind of election result is also a kind of will and attitude of Iran.
The United Nations has begun the fourth round of sanctions against Iran, and various unilateral sanctions imposed by Western countries have further made Iran face a very severe economic situation.
Therefore, Iran also needs to start repairing its relations with the world, repairing its relations with the United States, and getting the United Nations to ease sanctions on Iran, so that Iran can develop further.
Despite the difficulties on this path, Rouhani, as Iran's nuclear negotiator, has also tried to improve Iran's diplomatic environment around the world through his own efforts.
This is fundamentally different from the previous president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who represented a hard-line stance demanding that the West and the United Nations lift sanctions; Rouhani, on the other hand, is a disregardist, belligerent and does not serve the interests of the Iranian people.
In the past ten years of sanctions, Iran has been isolated, unable to obtain external resources and technical cooperation, and it is difficult for the domestic economic development to grow, and it is naturally difficult for the people to accept it.
At the end of the VIP passage, Rouhani also greeted Fan Yize cordially.
"Mr. Fan, he is really very young."
The two gently shook hands and separated, and Fan Yize also said, "Mr. President, you are too polite. ”
A simple greeting, Rouhani couldn't let go of the two or three million people at the scene, greeted Fan Yize, then retired, walked to the prepared podium, and began his speech:
"This day of the month is a bright day for Iran...... We are the winners......*** will overcome everything......"
Fan Yize, who was greeted on the rostrum, listened to Rouhani's words, and watched the response of the millions of Iranian people below resounding across the land. At the end of the tide, helicopter gunships and drones of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps flew over the sky, and the drones scattered a large number of flowers at the party site.
The curtain came to an end after a speech that lasted several minutes, and Rouhani stepped down from the rostrum and went deep into the crowd.
At this time, Fan Yize also saw that a large number of Iranians at the gathering site were leaving one after another.
In this regard, Fan Yize asked the female diplomats around him with some puzzlement: "Millions of people came to the party, but just after the president's speech, so many people left, does it mean that they are dissatisfied with Rouhani's administration?" ”
The female diplomat suddenly looked embarrassed and said: "The speech is over, everyone can leave, after all, it is impossible for Mr. President to come into contact with everyone on the scene." ”
For such an answer, Fan Yize smiled slightly, he had already understood such a gathering.
This kind of gathering is not a frenzy for religion, but more for fun, gathering so many people, which is a typical entertainment color in it.
Human beings are social creatures who need to live in groups and need rituals to release their emotions and seek identity and belonging, so Iran's suicide and depression rates are far lower than those in the Nordic countries, which have the highest development in the world.
What kind of effect can such a gathering have today, in Fan Yize's view, the purpose and result are not important, what matters is the moment of the gathering.
Over the past few decades, there have been several annual gatherings of more than a million people in Iran, but there have been no stampedes or other casualties.
This speaks volumes about a lot, and if you can compare it with football matches, strikes, and large gatherings in Europe and the United States, it's much better.