The Islamic Republic’s Deadly Scenarios to Destroy the Traces of the Revolutionary Women’s Movement Freedom Life
Throughout its shameful existence, the Islamic Republic has implemented many deadly scenarios for its survival. In the early 1960s, in order to consolidate its position, it arrested, tortured, executed, or killed tens of thousands of freedom-seekers and revolutionary opponents in unequal conflicts. The Islamic Republic’s deadly scenarios continued with serial killings between 1980 and 1998, and then with the killing of a number of protesters and the suppression of the “Green Movement” in 2009. In response to the anti-government protests held in 160 cities in January 2017, the Islamic Republic resorted to indescribable violence, killing more than a hundred people and arresting and torturing more than five thousand, thus temporarily suppressing the discontent of the masses of the people, which had for the first time exceeded the integrity of the Islamic Republic. It wasn’t long before the Islamic Republic faced wider anti-government protests in November 2019. Over the course of three days, it massacred 1,500 people on the streets of Iran and arrested and tortured more than 7,000. This time, it also succeeded in temporarily suppressing the public protests.
In Shahrivar 1401, after the murder of Mahsa (Zina) Amini in the “moral security police”, the Islamic Republic faced a new wave of popular protests, which quickly swept across Iran and led to a revolutionary movement that immediately set the overthrow of the Islamic Republic on its agenda. This movement, like previous anti-government protests, was neighborhood-based and did not follow a single leadership. But it was more coordinated and coherent than the movements that preceded it. For this reason, despite the boundless violence of the Islamic Republic’s repressive forces, it crushed them. The Islamic Republic was also able to temporarily stop this revolutionary movement to a large extent after six months by killing more than 600 people, blinding and wounding thousands, arresting and torturing more than eighty thousand people, executing four young revolutionaries, and sentencing dozens of others to death. This movement brought about dramatic changes in society, including widespread public dissatisfaction with the government, the growth of courage and resistance among young people, especially women, in confronting the repressive measures of the Islamic Republic, the generalization of the optional hijab among women, and its support by the majority of the Iranian people. The Islamic Republic has not hesitated to commit any crime to return to its position before the revolutionary movement of women living in freedom. It is trying to take back the achievements of the revolutionary movement of women living in freedom, one after another.
This murderous regime, in revenge for the schoolgirls who smeared the faces of the leaders of the Islamic Republic – Khomeini and Khamenei – in the school and on the street, has launched a chemical attack on girls’ schools. It has mobilized its mercenaries to impose the hijab on women, in all squares and passages of society, in parks, shopping malls and restaurants, and to seal many of them. Continuing its deadly scenarios, in order to create fear in society and push back the Women’s Freedom Movement, it plans to execute four young revolutionaries, Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi in Isfahan and Mujahid Kor Kor from Izeh, on fabricated charges and by extracting forced confessions from them through torture. Unaware that, with these executions, it is increasing the anger and hatred of the people and their determination to overthrow the Islamic Republic. This can be seen in the slogan that the youth write on the walls of the cities: Execute or not, overthrow.
Executions and repression no longer have any effect on Iranian society. Larger waves of protests and strikes are on the way, and the overthrow of the Islamic Republic by the people is happening much faster than the Islamic Republic can imagine. The conditions of Iranian society will not return to the way they were before the murder of Mahsa Amini, and the Islamic Republic cannot turn them back.
The only way to prevent the execution of these four young men, whom the Islamic Republic wants to sacrifice for its own ill-fated survival, is for the people to protest these criminal sentences. The Islamic Republic must know that it cannot easily kill their brave children. In addition to these four, the Islamic Republic has sentenced a number of other revolutionary youth to death during the Women’s Freedom Street Movement. They are also at risk of retaliation by the Islamic Republic until their death sentences are revoked. The Islamic Republic has also sentenced six political prisoners, Salem Albushokeh, Seyyed Adnan Ghobishawi, Habib Adris, Moein Khanafrah, Ali Mojdam, and Mohammad Reza Moghadam, to death in Ahvaz for being members of the military wing of the “Struggle Movement” and transferred them to quarantine to carry out the sentence.
The people, with their endless power and by taking to the streets, can push back the Islamic Republic and save the lives of their children. Let’s not leave these prisoners alone and defenseless to be executed like Mohsen Shekari, Majidreza Rahnavard, Mohammad Hosseini, and Mohammad Mehdi Karami.
The Islamic Republic executes in the silence of society. It recently executed political prisoner Habib Asyoud. He was the former leader and one of the founders of the “Struggle Movement,” an opposition group to the Islamic Republic. Agents of the Islamic Republic kidnapped him from Türkiye two years ago and took him to Iran.
The Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in exile) considers executions, especially political executions, to be crimes against humanity. The death sentences of Saleh Mir-Hashemi, Majid Kazemi, Saeed Yaqoubi, and Mujahid Kor-Kor, and six political prisoners in Ahvaz, must be immediately revoked and they must be released immediately. The lives of dozens of young people who were sentenced to death during the Women of Freedom street uprising are still in danger. The Islamic Republic has taken their lives hostage and is holding them like a club over the people’s heads. The Islamic Republic must be pressured to revoke these executions.
Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in exile)
24 Ordibehesht 1402 equals 14 May 2023