Concert on Isfahan wounds; The municipality’s withdrawal from Zayandeh Rood!

Isfahan’s beating heart is dried up, and whatever happens around it has rapid reactions. On the margin of Zayandehrood, the forbidden swimming boards were once installed, and now that it looks like a desert, it has made a sad picture.

Over the past few days, the photo of the “Hall of the Moon” and the concert in Zayandehrood has been released and has received a lot of reactions. Isfahan Mayor has announced that it will be held in Isfahan after the end of Muharram and Zero and the 6 -day war; However, the happiness of the people of Isfahan is next to the river and the alive of Zayandehrood, not on the dry river bed.

Isfahan Mayor Ali Ghasemzadeh, after a strong protest by environmental activists over a concert on the dried river on Zayandehrood and said on the outskirts of Khaju Bridge:

Environmental lovers’ concern that the celebration in the riverbed normalizes the dryness of the river is understandable. Some environmental activists believe that we have accepted this celebration in the river bed, Zayandehrood is dry and we have turned it into a program. However, from the beginning, the purpose of providing this joyful and holding it around the river was to reflect the voice of Zayandehrood.

Meanwhile, the Coordination Council for Popular Resources and Environmental Organizations of Isfahan province warned the governor, the mayor of Islamic Culture and Guidance and Director General of Environmental Protection, and the letter said:

The move was to normalize the critical situation of Zayandehrood’s drought, which could divert public opinion from the pursuit of the revival of this vital artery. Any interference in the context of Zayandehrood under any title is irrational and unacceptable and will have irreparable environmental and social consequences.

This move has led to the reactions of professors and researchers in various fields; Hossein Akhani, a professor at the University of Tehran, has criticized the concert and said:

How best to hold this concert in the country’s environmental management cemetery! Is it a small task to dry up the Zayandehrood River? They have to celebrate, invite guests from all over the world. Why not happiness? Give themselves a prize!

According to the official poster published, the “Ummah of the Moon” celebration will be held on the occasion of the 1,400th anniversary of the Prophet of Islam on September 1-8 in the dry bed of Zayandehrood in front of Khaju Bridge. In this poster images of Uncle Purang and Hamed Homayoun; September 16th Mohammad Alizadeh and Group of Thousand Daf; Mustafa Raghab is seen on September 17th.

After the concert, Mustafa Ragheb deleted his previous story on his Instagram page, and again, referring to the change of the venue of his presence at the concert:

By changing the venue of the celebration from the Zayandehrood route to the Khaju sidewalk, I am pleased to serve the beloved people of Isfahan.

Zayandehrood has always been an important point for the people of Isfahan in the middle of their happiness and suffering, a joy that has always been flowing with water and sadness to see the dry river bed. Now holding a war of joy and concert for joy on the river dry bed is one of the strange experiences of Isfahan after drying the river.

Photos: Ali Azar