An Iranian flash mob for the freedom of Iran turned up at liverpool street station in London and began to dance. The organizer told me they were a group trying to find a way to open up the protest about human rights in Iran but in a fun way. He said that only recently 2 young men had been hung in Iran. They apparently were part of the ongoing protests against the election results in Iran. The official bodies in Iran it is reported claimed that were hung for being 'enemies of god'
This flash mob only lasted about 2 minutes before the police stopped them saying they were stopping people from moving across the station. It seems a shame that the police involved could not have allowed them a little leeway as they were only going to dance for about 10 minutes. Maybe the policeman making the decision has been watching dance shows on the TV recently and just thought their dancing was 'pants'
Iranian flash mob given nul points by the police
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The police gave the flash mob for Iran nul points for dancing and stopped them in their tracks at liverpool street station. This flash mob only lasted about 2 minutes before the police stopped them s
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Just to make a point that because we wanted to maintain dignity of the issue for which we were protesting, we chose a whirling Dervish type movement at the end, which has a solitary sense to it.
This was to signify the way the Iranian regime has tried to put their citizens in a spin and isolated them from the rest of the world, so by the very nature of mixing protest and flashmob it was somehow a new mutation of flashmob and perhaps meant to be rather low key.
Most of the participants were in fact non-Iranians because the intention of our group is to turn the Green movement protest into an anti-apartheid and solidarnosc type campaigns.
I was disappointed that we were stopped specially since in the previous occasions the police not only did not stop the flashmob but had joined in. I suspect that it was because of the security alert level in London which is still high (after the conference with Taliban) amd that might have made them more formal, or perhaps they want to discourage such events happening in the station.
Still, I'm glad that the response from the participants was good and they seemed to have enjoyed it.
Thanks for covering this story.