Iran: Nationwide Water Gun Fight Scheduled

After 800 men and women gathered in a park in Tehran several weeks ago for a water gun fight, security forces have been tracking participants through social media websites and arresting them.  Security forces have been using Facebook to find the organizers and participants of the water gun fight through their Facebook accounts.  The Facebook page for “Water Wars in Tehran” now has 19,000 members and 22 local chapters for cities across Iran.  Iranians have reported that the event started out as “innocent fun” and has now become political.  They are “vowing to challenge” the regime with similar events.  A nationwide water war is scheduled for Friday after the end of Ramadan.