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To the people of the world
Support the
struggle of the people of Iran by calling for:
“An immediate end
to military threats against Iran and for the expulsion of the
Islamic Republic from the international community”
On the two sides of
what is called the Iranian nuclear crisis, stand the governments
of the West and the Islamic Republic of Iran. None of these
sides represents the wishes and interests of the people.
The governments of
the West and members of the UN Security Council have the world’s
biggest stockpiles of nuclear weapons. The US government, in
particular, is the first power to have built the atomic bomb and
the only state to have used it against hundreds of thousands of
innocent people. It has even developed its use as a tactical
weapon. None of these states is a competent judge to rule on
whether other states should or should not acquire nuclear
weapons. Only those are entitled to stand against the attempts
of the Islamic regime of Iran or any other state to acquire
nuclear weapons which stand for a universal nuclear disarmament.
The fight against nuclear weapons must target all nuclear
powers, including the United States and members of the UN
Security Council.
On the other side
of this conflict stands the Islamic Republic of Iran, i.e. one
of the most savage and inhuman theocratic dictatorships the
world has ever seen. The crimes of this regime in its 27 years
of existence include executions, stoning to death, flogging,
throwing dissidents to jail, torture, stripping people of their
rights, violence and discrimination against women and
slaughtering tens of thousands of political prisoners.
These two sides now
stand against each other. But the main reason for the opposition
of the governments of the West towards the Islamic Republic has
never been the atrocities of this regime against the people of
Iran. The West’s main problem with the Iranian regime is the
nuisance that Political Islam, and specifically the Islamic
regime of Iran, is causing for the USA’s foreign policy in the
Middle East and around the world. Within this framework there is
no solution to the problem of the Islamic Republic, the nuclear
crisis or Islamic terrorism. On the contrary, the West’s
militaristic policies create a breeding ground for Islamic
terrorism, and strengthen it politically and socially. The
catastrophic consequences of this policy are there for all to
see in Iraq. While claiming victims in the most brutal way from
among the people, the state terrorism of the West and Islamic
terrorism feed off each other. They provide a reason for each
other’s existence. Each justifies its brutal actions by the
other’s brutality.
Civilised humanity
has its own solution against these two poles of savagery. The
basis of this solution is a ceaseless struggle against the
militaristic and reactionary policies of the United States and
its European Allies, at the same time as fighting against
political Islam and for secularism in countries plagued by
Islam. An essential part of this solution is challenging
post-modernist views which in the guise of respecting “other
people’s cultures” turn a blind eye to the atrocities of the
Islamists and Iran’s Islamic regime.
As far as it
concerns the issue of the Islamic Republic acquiring nuclear
weapons, the solution to it lies in the hands of the people of
Iran. The people of Iran despise that regime, have been fighting
it for years and stand for its overthrow. The overthrow of the
Islamic Republic will not only save the 70 million people of
Iran from the Islamic nightmare that has been strangling them
for 27 years, but will also deal a mortal blow to Islamic
terrorism and put an end to the threat of the Islamic Republic
becoming a nuclear power. There is no other solution. The
alternatives by the Western governments, i.e. military attack
against Iran or economic sanctions, are not solutions; they are
part of the problem. Just like a military attack, economic
sanctions will, on the one hand, hurt the people of Iran,
turning their lives into something similar to what the people of
Iraq are going through, and, on the other hand, give a new
excuse to the regime in Iran to play victim and justify the
poverty and repression that the overwhelming majority of the
people in Iran are subjected to.
People of Iran want
an immediate end to the military threats of the USA and the
governments of the West against Iran, while being engaged in a
relentless struggle for the overthrow of the regime. The Islamic
regime of Iran is hated by the people and does not represent any
section of them. The Iranian people demand that this government
should not be recognised by the world’s states and international
organisations.
They specifically
call for the expulsion of the Islamic Republic from
international organisations, an end to diplomatic ties with it
and the closing down of Iranian embassies around the world.
Their message is: instead of military attack and economic
sanctions, throw the Islamic Republic of Iran out of the
international community!
We call on the
progressive people of the world, human rights organisations,
parties and individuals and all those who want to see the world
free of the nightmare of nuclear weapons, Islamic terrorism and
the United States’ state terrorism to support the people of Iran
by calling for “an immediate end to military threats against
Iran and for the expulsion of the Islamic Republic from the
international community”.
Hamid Taqvaee
Secretary of the
Central Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran
17 February 2006
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