An Iranian girl at a protest in opposition to the federal government in Tehran on October 1, 2022 following the demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.
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Courageous Iranian girls, supported by a era of younger males, educated and figuring out their inalienable rights, have overtly and ferociously rejected the brutal spiritual dictatorship of Ali Khamenei and all his loyalists and apologists, in pursuit of justice and equal rights.
They're organized, impressed, self-sacrificing and able to result in basic change: the regime’s downfall and the institution of democratic rule that may guarantee their life, liberty and prosperity.
Their brave stand on the streets of virtually each metropolis and city in Iran has been met by the welcome help of all of society and the awe and respect of the free world.
Twenty-two-year-old Mahsa Amini’s tragic demise within the custody of Tehran’s morality police triggered an explosion of grievances over injustices our individuals have suffered for greater than 4 many years. The world is witnessing the fruition of a democratic revolution that Ruhollah Khomeini denied 43 years in the past when, below a pretense of Islam, he imposed a theocratic dictatorship on the Iranian individuals.
Iranians, particularly girls, are ending a monstrous spiritual fascist experiment that defiled Islam in addition to Iran’s tradition and civilization by committing essentially the most egregious and inhumane crimes in fashionable instances.
Ladies have been the primary goal of the regime’s oppression and discrimination — and thus possess the best potential to confront the regime. They've additionally discovered by expertise that their rights can't be realized so long as this regime reigns. They're, due to this fact, the power for change and rebirth of our nation.
The protesters are utilizing slogans to speak their aspirations to the world. “Demise to Khamenei!” “Demise to the oppressor, be it the shah or the [supreme] chief!” “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom!” “Demise to the precept of velayat-e faqih [absolute clerical rule]!”
Within the first months after the revolution, the mullahs’ regime sought to impose obligatory veiling with its personal slogan: “Both the veil or successful on the top.” Mujahedin-e Khalq girls who wore the veil have been on the entrance traces of the ladies’s big protest in March 1979. I used to be there.
In 1981, when our individuals revolted in opposition to spiritual fascism, they have been met with brute power. Many high-school and college college students have been summarily executed the day after a half-million-strong peaceable demonstration in Tehran, with out regard to judicial norms or correct identification. Mass executions intensified in subsequent weeks and months, at instances with tons of executed each night time.
4 many years of horrors and massacres, injustices and cruelties have ensued.
Right this moment, the Iranian individuals haven't risen to reform an irreformable and illegitimate regime however moderately to finish it. They rose in peaceable protest however have been met with bullets, torture and executions. In an uneven battle with closely armed forces of suppression, they're rightfully resisting with what they've, with rocks, their honor, blood, sweat and tears.
The free world should help the democratic revolution for which my empty-handed compatriots are laying down their lives. When inalienable and God-given rights can't be secured by way of peaceable means within the face of a brutal dictatorship missing any legitimacy, it's incumbent upon men and women of honor to safe them by way of organized, accountable and self-sacrificing battle by any means inside the bounds of internationally acknowledged covenants — such because the Common Declaration of Human Rights that acknowledges the proper “to have recourse as a final resort, to riot in opposition to tyranny and oppression.”
The USA Declaration of Independence, too, holds that “it's the Proper of the Folks to change or to abolish” a authorities that's damaging to its residents’ life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Confronted with ruthless violence from well-armed safety forces exhorted to point out no mercy and a regime that seeks at least their wholesale bloodbath to proceed its management and enslavement of the citizenry, there is just one recourse of final resort. As People know, freedom doesn't come free.
The Iranian resistance will proceed till the spiritual dictatorship’s downfall and the institution of a free, secular, democratic and non-nuclear Iran, in peace and good mutual relations with the world.
Ladies are on the heart of this resistance, and their position within the political management in addition to financial, cultural and mental life will likely be assured by their battle. Above and past their absolute proper to resolve what they put on and find out how to dwell, they're on the forefront of change.
The Iranian individuals shouldn't be alone at such a defining second. It's time for the West to shun the appeasement of the theocracy and help the democratic revolution by recognizing the resistance’s proper to defend itself in opposition to the brutality of the regime by any means attainable.
We’ve all the time welcomed the help and participation of all Iranians in overthrowing this regime, rejecting dictatorships of the previous and establishing a free Iran by way of well-liked sovereignty and the poll field. The trail to reclaim our rights and rebuild our future has been charted, and thanks in nice half to the nation’s girls, a free Iran will quickly be part of the free world.
Maryam Rajavi is the president-elect of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran.
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