Brief on Iran

Brief

Suppression;

 Tool for covering up the shattering of power of 

clerical dictatorship

This question always exists about state-suppression; is this suppression because of the power of the establishment or its weakness?

If we don’t think properly about this question and its answer, at the first instant we always think of a regime’s power and strength in regard with state-suppression; its weakness and the conditions it is embedded in is forgotten.
To answer this question we must first lay out the possibilities and then reach the conclusion.


In which aspects the regime ruling Iran does pursue its suppression?
Execution in public or at prisons, constant torture of prisoners, arbitrary arrests based on different excuses, calling the youths as hooligans and counting them as criminals, imposing pressure on women under the code of ‘the plan for improper veil’, attacking universities, putting the detainees on trial on charge of ‘Moharebe’ (enmity with God or fighting against God) and..., systematic raping of prisoners to break their resistance and make them to confess false, cut in the visits of prisoners and etc.


What is the goal for all these arrests, tortures, executions and etc?
The clerical dictatorship wants to pretend that it enjoys a great power and is capable of doing whatever it wants. No body has the right to even breathe against it none the less to protest or to demand anything.

Has the clerical dictatorship reached its goal by the suppression or not? Has it been able to provoke horror and fear in the society?
Are people afraid because of round the clock suppression imposed by this regime in front of their eyes and express their demands no more? 

There are two answers to this question:

First- if the answer is that yes this regime has been able to make the society hush up by its vicious suppression then why all these demonstrations and cries of ‘death to dictator’ that is heard from all society strata? How can this contradiction be answered to?
Second- if the answer is that the Supreme Leader has not been even able to silence the prisoners in the prisons none the less the people in the society from workers to street sweepers, to employees to students to professors and etc.
The conclusion is that the suppression has no effect any more and can no more control the protests and discontent of people.
Especially when people cry in answer to the street killings during last year: ‘death to the principle of Velayat-e-Faghih’ or ‘death to Khamenei’.
This means that if there is even one day of freedom people will pull down this Velayat and will destroy it.

Conclusion:
First: people do not want this regime; they demand its downfall and will pull it down at the first chance they get.
Second: Velayat-e-faghih is only continuing its dictatorship by the power of weapons, IRGC and Bassij; if one day it stops its suppression it will not exist any more.

Especially when we look at the regime in the framework of international community we see that it has no support amongst its neighbors.
On the day of ‘Pasdar’ (IRGC member) Rahim Safavi said: “we don’t have any strategic partner in the region”.

Sanctions imposed on this regime by US, Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan are tightening their rings around this regime each day.
We are witnessing protests because of problems in water, electricity, non-payment of wages. The Bazaar closes; families of political prisoners protest for their freedom and students use any opportunity to protest, strike and march against this regime.
Any where we go we see anti-regime slogans written on the walls.
Political prisoners bravely announce their position in any occasion though they are in the paws of regime’s henchmen and go on hunger strike to gain their rights?
Families of those who had participated in the uprising, and are attacked at their homes by SSF, arrested and tortured still gather in protest on daily or weekly bases in front of regime’s prisoners.

After the Ashura Uprising regime’s propagating apparatus is threatening the youths and other people round the clock.
Mohsen Ejeie regime’s so-called General Prosecutor announced that ‘at least three’ detainees of Ashura Uprising have been identified as ‘Moharebs’ and will be executed but the execution of 5 political prisoners on May 9, 2010 aroused a wave of protests and public strikes. Even in prison the prisoners took positions against this cruel act.

In cities of Sanandaj, Mahabad, Saghez, Baneh, Sardasht, Piranshahr, Naghadeh, Oshnavieh and Marivan bazaars and shops were closed.
The Tehran’s Bus Driving Syndicate condemned the hangings. The Teacher’s Global Confederation condemned the hangings.
Students especially thousands of students of Meli University protested and prevented Ahmadinejad from entering the university; they clashed with Bassijis and made them retreat.

The new decree of execution of political prisoner, Jafar kazemi, supporter of PMOI, has raised a wave of global and domestic protest which still continues.
Political prisoners are on hunger strike some of them on dry hunger strike making the regime desperate, and their families stage protests each day.

While clerical dictatorship had issued the decree of stoning to death for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani it had to retreat under global pressure and hatred.
The continuation of these protests, demonstrations and anti-regime slogans has dragged the Supreme Leader, Khamenei, into point of desperation.
He hangs to anything but he cannot drive the society any more off the course of their demands.

Though the suppression was obvious but people attacked the suppressive forces in any alley and street in Ashura.

In Tabriz the brave youths punished one of the suppressive elements of SSF after a soccer match.

Regime uses suppression as a tool for its survival. If only one day it stops suppression it will be gone. So it is not a matter of power it is a matter of surviving or not surviving.

During Shah’s time people’s wrath was flamed when his regime massacred people on September 8, 1978 in Jaleh Square.

If the youths could grasp the guns of SSF as they did their shields, batons and helmets then the scene was painted in another color in Ashura.

Thus the regime well knows that it cannot just continue suppression to the extent it wants because if the valiant youths are armed then regime’s downfall accelerates and is inevitable.

Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)


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