Gonabadi Dervishes who were staging a sit-in at “Madad-kari-ye Reza” institute (“Reza Social Service” institute) in protest against illegal closure of this aid center by security forces, broke the seal this morning, Sunday, 13 Ordibehesht ( 3, May).
According to Majzooban Noor, the dervishes by writing a short letter, have announced that their act has been legal and wrote: ” We believe that Reza Aid Institute which have been giving services over twenty years in various fields of social charity services, such as, education, health, employment, helping the aged and etc, were sealed off not by law but by the complicity of the security and rogue forces, therefore, the closure is considered absolutely illegal and protest against illegal action (specially in a such space that there is no fair organization) would be exactly legal action.”
As the mentioned dervishes by signing a petitions addressed to the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare, Mr . Ali Rabiee, had called for the reopening of there, stated that they will waiting for legal response by the Minister, otherwise, they have to continue their protests.
In this letter they have referred to illegal chasing His Holiness Haj Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh, Majzoob Ali Shah”, the Gutb of Gonabadi Dervishes, who was going to Hosseiniyeh (the place of worship) of Gonabadi dervishes to take part in the religious celebration of Imam Ali’s birthday (12th of Ordibehesht 1394/ 2, May, 2015) by plainclothes forces. Three plainclothes forces in their cars along with a motorcycle chased after his car and began to shoot photos while their faces were masked. The drivers of the mentioned cars by driving hazardously and perilously around the vehicles of his escorts tried to create terror and horror deliberately.
In the end of this letter, Gonabadi Dervishes have written: ” We declare that if it shows continuing to cause problems, we will be more determined than ever to take action.”