Help the people of Iran get rid of the Islamic regime!

by anarchist Sat Mar 01, 2008 17:32

"Now the Islamic regime in Iran should be rejected and isolated by an international protest movement of the people, and finally overthrown by the people of Iran. Then a whole world will be free of this regime."

I really cannot believe that the crazies who run Iran will go quietly.
The bastards simply don't care what their people or the world thinks.

The Iranian regime might be brought down peacefully but I really doubt it.

It is more likely a war with America or a civil war will decide the issue.

by Velvet underground Sat Mar 01, 2008 20:39

If there is civil war in Iran, the overthrown regime will be replaced with a less repressive form of Islamic theocracy which over time and in response to the pressures of American propaganda will resort to ever increasing forms of state control to counter what it will consider internal strife stirred up by paid agents of the US.

If America invades and wages war, the regime will be eventually replaced but only after carnage the likes of which has not been since WWII. All those inside Iran who rally to the Americans aid will only prove the regimes claims that those inside Iran facilitating political unrest are willing to co-operate with the US in order to pursue their own agenda. The vast majority of the population will rally to defend their country and all possibility of meaningful reform set back perhaps indefinitely .

Neither outcome delivers a socialist democratic Iranian republic. Both will result in the massive and unnecessary lose of human life for a futile and somewhat unachievable pursuit at this time.

Civil war will not deliver a socialist republic as the majority do not want (or are not ready) for that yet, it will deliver a lessor form of the regime they have at present which of course will not be tolerated by the US and the whole sorry affair will start all over again only it wont take 30 yrs to arrive at the situation we have today this time around..

American intervention certainly will not deliver a socialist republic as Americas price for their intercedance will be the positioning of a puppet regime of its choosing in power. That is something the Iranian population will not tolerate and all out jihad will ensue if it hadn't been raging already.

Neither scenario delivers a socialist republic, therefore I support neither

A velvet revolution and one that will succeed will only occur when the external and internal interferences of the US are removed and the threat to Iran itself from the US and its allies goes with it.

by pat c Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:53

The US & Israel want to bring about regime change in Iran through an invasion and wish to set up a puppet regime.

The WPI wish to bring about Internal Regime change through the action of the Iranian People. The WPI oppose any US aggression towards Iran, they oppose any invasion. They oppose Zionism.

Read the truth about how the WPI opposes US Imperialism:

In the face of the threat of an attack on Iran, support the people of Iran!

The threat of a US attack and the devastating consequences of economic sanctions are looming over the people of Iran. US’s war with the Islamic Republic is not the war of the people. People of Iran and their interests are not represented in this conflict. They want neither the Islamic Republic, nor a military attack, nor economic sanctions. For years, they have been fighting the Islamic Republic and the unbearable conditions that this ultra-reactionary regime has imposed on society.

In the fight against the US government’s warlike, inhuman and brutal policies, the Iranian people are on your side; they are asking you to be on their side in the fight against the Islamic Republic! To defeat the American government’s and its allies’ bullying and militarism, to defeat the reactionary and terrorist political Islamic movement and to overthrow the Islamic Republic, support the struggle of the people of Iran.

Hamid Taqvaee
Secretary of WPI Central Committee
30 November 2007
http://sjk-newseng.blogspot.com/2007/12/in-face-of-threat-of-attack-on-iran.html

Not another Iraq!

The current situation is a direct result of the USA's war and policies on Iraq. Of course Islamic terrorists are taking advantage of the situation to gain access to power – though some have already been mainstreamed into the Iraqi government, thanks to the USA. They too have turned Iraq into their killing fields.

And in all this tragedy and chaos, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says he wants to help the Iranian people have a freer and more prosperous future – that the Iranian people deserve better! Isn't that what they said about the people of Iraq and Afghanistan! And we have seen the prosperity they have brought for them!

To Jack Straw and Donald Rumsfeld: Please, if anyone is going to and can bring freedom, equality and prosperity, it is not you but the revolutionary movement fighting for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Your alternative is no alternative at all but more of the same.

Stand back and let us show you how it's done.

Maryam Namazie
Worker-communist Party of Iran
http://maryamnamazie.blogspot.com/2006/03/not-another-i....html

More at:

http://www.maryamnamazie.com/index.html

http://sjk-newseng.blogspot.com/

http://www.wpiran.org/English/english.htm

by rag Tag & Bobtail Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:51

A regime change in Iran, fine but has anybody thought of
asking the Iranian people of what they want ?

Might not they make an alternative proposal of suggesting that there is a regime change in Europe. i.e. rid yourself of the war mongering Christians and bring peace to the world ?

by pat c Mon Mar 03, 2008 13:39

It is Iranians who are calling for change. They are asking for our support.

I'm all for Regime Change in the West as well but unfortunately I dont see Obama or Clinton making any real difference.

by Velvet underground Mon Mar 03, 2008 15:23

Its not so much about reading the message as who its coming from.
The Worker-communist Party of Iran, who are predominately steered by expatriated or exiled Iranians, are a tiny faction in Iran and do not speak for its population.

It is the Worker-communist Party of Iran that is calling for support for its agenda not the Iranian population. There is a distinct difference and it does no one any favours to insinuate that they are one in the same.

Its a bit like saying the communist party of Ireland are calling for solidarity and support from the international community for its agenda and qualifying it by saying its call for support by the Irish people.

Iranians want reform but have not come out in any significant numbers calling for a socialist republic.

by Rag Tag & Bobtail Mon Mar 03, 2008 15:33

Thank you for the reminder Pat C !

The request from the Communist Workers Party of Iran is to change the present Islamic regime and replace it with what A Communist Regime ?

What percentage of the Iranian population is represented by those seeking change?

If the practises of former USSR & China are anything to go by, then a communist regime with it's barbaric practices would not bring about much of a change.

Nor do I believe would the introduction of Americanisms or Europeanisation be a healthy alternatives.

If change is to come to any country, it must be from the will of the majority of the population and without any external interference.

by pat c Mon Mar 03, 2008 15:33

The WPI are but one part of the resistance. Students, workers, womens rights activists are all calling for Internal Regime Change. Its truly amazing the way any call for support for the anti imperialist opposition is attacked.

Local community groups in Finglas are holding meetings on Iran. Come along and hear the truth.

Dari Jeyran, an Iranian is a women’s and political rights activist recently arrived from Iran. She has been involved in the struggles against the government there. She has been involved in solidarity work with trade unionists and students and also campaigned for prisoner’s rights. She has been at the forefront of providing information about what is happening in Iran out to activists abroad. She is also opposed to any war or sanctions on Iran

HOPI, and Parents Alone Support Service are holding 3 public meetings on

Thursday 6th March at the following venues

10.30am in St Helena's House, St Helena's Road, Finglas South, Dublin 11

12.30pm in Project West CDP, Barry Shops, Finglas West, Dublin 11

2.00pm in Rosehill House, Finglas Village.

by pat c Mon Mar 03, 2008 16:02

Iranian Workers Bulletin Issue 17 is now available. It has information on Teachers disputes, the Haft Tapeh workers decision to form an independent union, Deaths in workplace accidents, Dismissed workers protest and Mahmoud Salehi.

PDF at the link below.

by pat c Mon Mar 03, 2008 16:32

Heres an article by Iranian Shirin Ebadi who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, She writes on how women are treated in Iran.

Women are still denied their freedom

Since the 1979 Revolution Iranian women have been forbidden from serving as judges. In Iran a woman's evidence in court is worth half that of a man. Men can have multiple wives, while young girls can be married off to older men by their fathers. Sentences of stoning to death for adultery are still imposed, disproportionately on women, a practice denounced as grotesque and horrific by Amnesty International.

Well, what are the 35 million women and girls in Iran able to do about this? Like the suffragettes, one thing they can do is simply go out into the streets and proclaim what they want. Since 2006 the grassroots “Campaign for Equality” has galvanised women (and some men). Peacefully mobilising enough support to get a million signatures on a petition calling for an end to discriminatory laws, these equality campaigners include people such as Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, a brave writer, who in 2005 had a leg broken by security guards when she defied the ban on women attending football matches.

She has already spent time in solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison, where I myself have been imprisoned in the past. Now she is facing a charge of “illegal assembly” and a possible prison sentence. Dozens of equality campaigners in Iran are either already behind bars or facing imprisonment in what Amnesty calls an “acute” campaign of harassment from the Iranian authorities.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gue...6.ece

by pat c Mon Mar 03, 2008 16:54

Here is the latest statement from Amnesty regarding attacks on Iranian Womens Rights Defenders.

The Iranian authorities should cease their harassment of women human rights defenders and take urgent steps to dismantle the discriminatory legislation they are seeking to change, Amnesty International said in a report published today.

"Instead of using its powers to repress and intimidate those who protest and demand their rights, Iran’s government should address longstanding legal and other discrimination against women, who make up half of the country’s population. They must release imprisoned women’s rights defenders and stop detaining and harassing those peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly."

Ronak Safarzadeh and Hana Abdi - two Kurdish Iranian activists - continue to be detained without charge or trial, or even access to a lawyer. They were arrested in October and November 2007 for peacefully exercising their rights.

The organisation also published details of 12 women’s rights activists, 11 women and one man, who are currently being detained or are otherwise facing persecution because of their peaceful efforts to lobby for legislative change.