Message by Hamid Taqvaee, Leader of the Worker-communist Party of Iran, on the admission of the Islamic Republic of having shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane
The
admission by the Islamic Republic that it has shot down the Ukrainian
passenger plane demonstrated before the whole world the degree of
mendacity, deceit and shamelessness of a criminal regime. After three
days of denial and peddling of lies, and once irrefutable evidence had
been released by experts and states around the world, they were forced
into an admission.
This was not just an admission of a horrific crime;
it was also a confession to lying, deception and shamelessness by
criminals who had failed in the cover-up of their crime. This is not a
human error, but the ‘error’ of a system that kills and denies;
something they have been up to for forty years.
This
is the last page in the dark record of a regime which from the very
beginning of coming to power has maintained its hellish rule through
crime, murder, lies and deception. The people of Iran know this
criminal regime very well. The crimes of this regime, from the 1980s
massacres to the state ‘serial murders’, to shooting protestors on the
streets - the latest example being the massacre of around 1500 in the
November 2019 protests - are known to all in Iran. Now, with the
catastrophe of shooting down a passenger plane, the depth of
criminality, deception and shamelessness of the Islamic Republic becomes
known to the people of the world too. Now people around the world also
understand, more than ever before, the legitimacy of the struggle of
the people of Iran to free themselves from the menace of this criminal
regime. This scandal can and must be turned into a final blow to pull
down this hated regime.
The
protests have already begun. Hundreds of people have come out on the
streets of Tehran chanting ‘We didn’t give up those lives so as to
compromise and worship the Leader’ and ‘So many years of crime, death to
this regime’. Shamed and disgraced, the Islamic Republic has ended up
in a most feeble and fragile state. Let us come out on the streets in a
solid and united rank and turn the vigils and commemoration of the
victims of the plane crash into a powerful wave of protest against the
entirety of this system of lies and murder.
In memory of the victims of the plane tragedy and the November 2019 uprising!
Down with the criminal Islamic Republic of Iran!
Hamid Taqvaee
11 January 2020
