Oh oh! Defiance on Tehran’s metro

 

Rare defiance on Tehran’s metro: soldiers wave Iran’s pre-revolution lion flag

the country’s original flag, bearing the lion-and-sun emblem used before the Islamic Revolution, a direct challenge to the symbols of the current regime.  

For uniformed soldiers to display that flag in public is a bold act of protest in a state that harshly punishes dissent, especially inside the security forces. 

The lion-and-sun banner has long been adopted by regime opponents as a symbol of a free, pre-Khomeini Iran