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!
The
Islamic Republic, who has implemented an undeclared martial law,
shutting down the Internet, killing hundreds and arresting thousands
of protesters, claims that the protests are over. But the very nature
of these recent crimes shows that the revolution to overthrow the
Islamic regime must and will continue. The Islamic Republic is a
state of plunder, robbery, corruption, reaction, and crime and should
be done away with.
The masses of deprived and exasperated people, the
workers, teachers, retirees, women and the youth of this country are
determined to dispel the Islamic nightmare and to do so they continue
to protest boldly and in spite of the crimes of the regime’s armed
mercenaries.
The
people do not want to live below the poverty line and under the rule
of the capitalist mafia. The Iranian people do not want to live under
the yoke of the thieves and the murderers. The Iranian people do not
want insecurity, reactionism and superstition rule over their lives.
The
recent protests began over an increase in the price of petrol, but as
in the revolutionary uprisings of the 2009 summer and the 2017
winter, the slogans of “Down with the Dictator” and “Down with
the Islamic Republic” soon dominated the protests. There were
clashes with the regime’s mercenaries everywhere. People took
control of neighbourhoods and did not allow the regime’s
mercenaries to enter.
The
day will come soon when the revolutionary people will sweep away the
entirety of the regime together with its judiciary, legislature,
police, Revolutionary Guards, paramilitary Basij, its religious
seminaries and the totality of the Islamic collusion. The Islamic
Republic has confronted the people with tanks, prisons and its
criminals; the people will respond with nationwide strikes and
protests. The overthrow of this despicable and reactionary regime is
inevitable.
The struggle against the Islamic Republic continues in
many areas and cities; nationwide strikes and protests will be the
extension of this struggle and will continue until the Islamic
Republic is finally eliminated. The countdown for the toppling of the
Islamic Republic has begun.
Long
live the humane revolution for a humane society!
Atena
Daemi is known as an Iranian anti-execution campaigner and many,
among them Amnesty International, are calling for her release.
Fighting against executions is just one part of Atena’s work
however; there is a lot more to her and the reasons why she has been
subjected to the worst of ill-treatments by the Islamic Republic of
Iran.
Atena
Daemi stands for life and humanity – the total opposite of the
Islamic regime’s core essence, inhumanity and injustice. She is a
children's rights, a women's rights and an anti-execution campaigner.
She fights for the rights of the first and most vulnerable victims of
the Islamic regime and for the life of those who are condemned to
execution.
She
keeps writing even in prison under the harshest conditions, and
inspires many to fight for humanity.
Atena
Daemi’s father was with her when she was sentenced in the Islamic
regime’s court of injustice. Her father Hosein
Daemi wrote:
I'll
never forget when they brought Atena to court.
Judge
Moghiseh told her: Are you against execution?
Atena:
Yes, I am against execution.
Moghiseh:
It's none of your business, we execute whoever we want. And those
“human rights people” can't stop us.
Atena:
One day you will have to answer for those innocent people you hang,
and that day is coming soon.
Moghiseh
expelled Atena from the courtroom and sentenced her to 14 years in
prison.
Atena
Daemi was arrested in October 2014.
She
spent the first 86 days in solitary confinement.
She
was moved to Evin prison on 18thJanuary
2015.
She
was sentenced on 14thMarch
2015 to 14 years for ‘propaganda against the regime, conspiracy
against national security, insulting the leader of the regime,
insulting Khomeini, and concealing evidence.’
Interrogations,
accusations, court of injustice, solitary confinement, torture, long
prison sentence, harassment and arrest of her family members,
persecution, and more torture for Atena Daemi because she points out
the problem, the Islamic regime and its inhumanity, and proposes the
solution, humanity.
In
addition to campaigning against execution and for women's rights,
Atena is a passionate defender of children's rights. This is what she
wants to change:
In
Iran
over
10,000 infants die every year as a direct consequence of poverty
over
7,500,000 children are excluded from school
over
500,000 Afghan children are denied education
over
287,000 children are married off – the Islamic regime's law allows
it
over
5,000,000 children live on the deprived and unsafe margins of cities
Tens
of thousands are exposed to drugs. 1189 children were treated for
overdoses in 2015
71
children are awaiting execution in Iran
1500
children live with their mothers in prison
90%
of children in government care are sexually abused
26,909
cases of domestic abuse against children were reported in 2015
57%
of schools in Iran are unsafe
These
statistics are from the regime's census; the reality is disastrous.
Tens of thousands of children are homeless and face all sorts of
dangers including rape, exploitation in the drug trade, being victims
of the body parts trade, everyday humiliation, and hunger.
It's
for her uncompromising defence of the lives of the deprived and
bringing hope to them that she is subjected to the most inhuman
treatment. Atena Daemi is treated so cruelly because of what she
stands for: bringing moments of happiness to children who are
deprived of love, who are destitute, forced to work, forced to marry,
forced out of schools because they are poor or foreigners, forced to
live in slums.
The
hope for change that Atena brings to society disarms the regime which
has remained in power by taking away hope and terrorising society
with executions and the imposition of brutal poverty.
There
are no numbers or words to adequately reflect the “depth of the
inhumanity”, but there are people like Atena who risk their life to
change the life of just one child if they can. The ones who endure
torture, solitary confinement, immense pressure and whose messages
from behind bars are all about “passion for humanity” and “a
better world for children”.
The
enmity of the Islamic regime of Iran against Atena and other rights
activists is because of what they bring to society: the hope of
freedom from ’gender apartheid’ and its rules, the smile on a
child's face and the experience of love. That experience of
compassion by those who are not supposed to know about kindness and
love shakes the foundation of the Islamic Republic. How can the
Islamic regime secure its future, its ideology and its rules, if
people experience humanity and find hope?
Atena
Daemi stands for the humanity that we all share and the ideals we all
hold dearly. We call on all international humanitarian organisations
and workers' organisations to demand the immediate and unconditional
release of Atena Daemi.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
18 December 2018
Friday, 30 November 2018
Hamid Taqvaee’s
message to sugar cane workers of Haft Tapeh and steelworkers of
Ahvaz, Iran
I send my greetings
to you militant workers of Haft Tapeh and the steelworkers of Ahvaz.
Your steadfast strike and struggles echo the demands and sentiments
of all the workers and people of Iran. The methods of your struggle
are methods that can become a blueprint for all the workers and
people of Iran. You are demanding the payment of unpaid wages, you
have come out against poverty and corruption, you are calling for
workers to get organised and take over the running of their affairs.
These are the sentiments of the people of Iran, the sentiments of the
working class in Iran.
The methods of your
struggle can become a model for all workers and various protest
movements in society. Your families have joined your struggles and
doubly strengthened your fight. By holding general assemblies and
organising your struggle on a workers’ council basis, in my view
you have taken a huge step forward; you have raised the banner of
workers’ councils and have demanded the direct exercise of the will
of workers through their council. This is a demand, slogan and aim of
the whole workers’ movement and the people in Iran engaged in
protest.
On the other hand,
the unity and solidarity that you have shown between the two sectors
of workers, i.e. the steelworkers in Ahvaz and the sugar cane workers
in Haft Tapeh, if not unprecedented, is exceptional in the history of
the workers’ movement in Iran. It is over three weeks, nearly a
month, now that two important sectors of workers have been on strike
and during your strike you have come out united and in solidarity
with each other and in support of each other’s demands, slogans and
struggle. This solidarity can be widened to include larger sections
of the working class in Iran.
The government,
faced with this powerful wave of your struggle, has no choice other
than, like always, to resort to threats, repression and prison. But,
as you have said in your slogans, even threats, repression and prison
have no effect, and have only led to the strengthening of your
struggle.
It has been reported
that Ali Nejati [the head of the union of sugar cane workers] and
also his son Peyman Nejati have been arrested, while their house was
raided and they were brutally beaten up. It has also been reported
that Esmail Bakhshi [a popular leader and representative of the sugar
cane workers] has been subjected to torture and physical abuse in
prison. This outrage should be answered firmly, and we should stand
up to these savages, demanding the immediate release of Esmail
Bakhshi, Sepideh Gholiyan, Ali Nejati and Peyman Nejati; an urgent
demand that should be forced onto the government. Up to this point,
your struggle and the demand for the release of Bakhshi has given
rise to a huge wave of support, both in Iran and internationally.
Workers’ organisations, workers’ rights personalities, writers,
students, retired workers, teachers and civil rights activists and
figures have started petitions and issued statements and held protest
gatherings to call for the immediate release of Bakhshi, and actively
supported your struggle.
Also,
internationally, many trade unions, in Europe and Canada, have called
for the release of Bakhshi and supported your struggles. This wave of
support must be extended further, and the Islamic Republic forced to
release Esmail Bakhshi, Ali Nejati, Peyman Nejati and Sepideh
Gholiyan immediately and unconditionally. This fight must be
continued until the release of all jailed workers and all political
prisoners in Iran. In the hope of victory and success!
---
Hamid Taqvaee is the
leader of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI)
This is the English transcript of Hamid Taqvaee's video message in Farsi
Please note: Peyman Nejati have been released in the meantime
Today, Iran and the world - from Tehran, Esfahan, Mashad, Ahvaz to Stockholm, Frankfurt, London and The Hague - were the scenes of powerful and impassioned protests by the revolutionary people against the departing regime of the Islamic Republic.
The regime had summoned all its brutality and mobilised its entire machinery of murder, intimidation and media in the hope of surviving this day. Nevertheless, shouts of ‘Death to dictator’, ‘Khamenei is a murderer’, ‘Political prisoners must be released’ and other radical slogans of the people reverberated in Tehran and many other cities.
Film clips showing the pulling down and stepping on the billboards of Khamenei and Khomeini were shown on the world’s media. Some neighbourhoods of Tehran fell into people’s hands for hours, and some women threw away the Islamic headscarf. Groups of people marched towards Evin Prison, and were only stopped after an attack by the regime’s brutal security forces. Only by unprecedented control and extreme savagery, by turning the state Radio and TV headquarters, Khamenei’s residence and government ministries into virtual fortresses was the regime able to pass the day. In European cities, too, only the heavy presence of the police was able to prevent the Islamic Republic’s embassies from being taken over by massive angry crowds.
The world witnessed the tug of war between the revolution and counter-revolution in Iran. It saw once again how pathetically and viciously the Islamic Republic is fighting for its life in the face of a mass and radical revolution. The journalists who the regime had invited to relay the words of the head of its “dead state”, nearly all made fun of its clumsy attempts in putting up the show rally. Despite the regime’s plans, the international media reported on the repression, brutal crackdown and hired mobs bussed in to the state rally, and the resolve and determination of the people to see the regime off to its end.
February 11 also revealed the absurdity and hypocrisy of the admonitions of the pro-regime ‘opposition’ asking people “not to use force”, and how these appeals practically serve Khamenei and the regime. It was proven once again that the only genuine and the least costly way before Iranian society is the toppling of the barbaric Islamic regime by the power of people’s revolution. After February 11, we shall no doubt see a further polarization of Iran’s political scene, the radicalization of the revolution and a more earnest preparation by the revolutionary people to put an end to the Islamic Republic by their direct revolutionary action.
The Worker-communist Party of Iran sends its greetings to all the women and men who heroically came out on the streets today. WPI fights with all power for the victory of this revolution, the total overthrow of the Islamic Republic and the building of a free and equal society.
This week's WPI TV, the English language TV programme of WPI, on the anticipated protests in Iran and abroad on the anniversary of the fall of the Shah's regime, 22Bahman (11 February).
Here are some photos from the WPI demonstration in London, Trafalgar Square. The WPI protests Ahmadinejad's attendance at the UN General Assembly in New York today and calls for his prosecution.
(3:30pm): Many older people are on the move to behesht-zahra (3:32pm): Lots of basiji and plainclothes police are in 7-tir Square (3:36pm): Entrance to metro and the square are full of police at 7-tir Square (3:10pm): Rumor is that the Metro exit doors to behesht Zahra are closed (3:42pm): Many are planning to turn up at protests/mourning (3:45pm): GPRS link to my contact in Tehran streets goes down. have 2 wait til comes back online! (4:00pm):Anti riot forces today have established their basis at Behesht Zahra cemetry where the 40th memorial day of death of those who lost their lives during recent demonstrations, will take place. (4:05):A large number of persons are moving towards Behesht Zahra. Mousavi and Karroubi have also confirmed participation at todays ceremony (4:07):Behesht-zahra: loads of ppl and rising (4:12):Jafar Panahi the famous film maker and director of the Iranian cinema and Mahnaz Mohamadi, womans activist and documentary maker, have been arrested this afternoon in Behesht Zahara cemetry.
These 2 film makers, this morning had gone to Behesht Zahra to place flowers over the graves of the persons who lost their lives in the post-election events and were arrested around 2 pm and taken to an unknown location. (4:15):Dozens of riot police are attemptng to disperse mourners at a Tehran cemetery (4:16):Mousavi Arrives Tehran Cemetery To Commemorate Victims Of Unrest (4:17):Iranian police arrest mourners for victims of Iranian election unrest at Tehran cemetery (4:18):Iran police arrest mourners at cemetery (4:19):Mourners being beaten with sticks, batons and belts by police (4:20): People are chanting "This a day of mourning ..This is a day of mourning" (4:21): POLICE FORCE MOUSAVI TO LEAVE TEHRAN CEMETERY, DISPERSE MOURNERS (4:22):Iranian police tell mourners to leave the cemetery or "face the consequences." (4:25):People in cemetery chanting Our Neda is not dead It's the regime thats dead (4:26):Clashes between people and the security and para-security forces verifying in Behesht Zahra. (4:28):Police 'Beat Mourners' At Iran Cemetery (4:30):A large number of people gathered in center and south areas of Tehran and police is serverly preventing people from gathering in Ferdowsi Square. (4:33):People are singing yare dabestani in beheshte zahra (4:35): I have just spoken to Mahsa Amrabadi's mother and she confirmed that Mahsa has not been released but said that will be released by middle of the month of "Sha'ban"(fereshte qazi) (4:36):Cries of "Death to the Dictator" can be heard (4:38):A large number of anti-riot guards and police are present in the area. People throw flowers on them and chant "Support us ..Support us". (4:42):Riotpolice chasing chantng youngstrs, weather is hot, girls on the frontline amid uncomfortable clothing (4:45):The slogan of "Death to dictator" can be heard louder than ever (4:46)People are singing yare dabestani(a revolutionary anthem) in beheshte zahra (4:47):About 3000 mourners around Neda's grave site (4:48):Police charge people at grave site. Clashes taking place (4:49):Police and security forces have closed lot n. 257 in Behesht Zahra cemetery and do not allow people to enter. (4:50):Forces are stopping people by the gates of behest zahra, clashes have started at the gates (4:54):Riot police has blocked all entrances to "Behesht Zahra" (4:55):Old man tells police "Go ahead hit me!" (4:56):Mourners chant: "Death to Dictator!" Basijis now chanting "God is Great" too. (4:58):Anti riot police are fighting with those who are trying to film the situation
7:29:No network in central of tehran 7:30: They are beating people in the most violent way in Abbas Abad strett with batons and rod 7:35:Thousands of peopel are in Vali-e Asr street and Police is beating them up brutally by electric baton and cable 7:40:Heavy clashes at Takht Tavos St. police shooting tear gas
7:50:Protesters in Ahvaz (around KianPars ave) despite heavy smog 8:12:In esfeahn 5 to 6 thousand ppl holding green signs protesting 8:15:Unconfirmed reports one killed in Valiasr street 8:16:Black smoke caused by tires set on fire has spread over the sky in Tehran 8:20:In Isfahan 5 to 6 thousands poeple with green symbols had gathered in Enqelab Sq and around 33 bridge area 8:25:2 young men were arrested and placed inside a van, but a group of demonstrators broke windows & pulled men out of vehicle 8:45:Following block of mobile phones and interference in the SMS services, a total power black-out has also occurred in many areas of Tehran. The reason for the slight delay in our live-blogging service, is due to the fact that we've had to move to another location 8:50:Thousands protesters in Vali-asr Ave. Also a huge crowd in Modarres express way 8:55:Many anti-riot police & plain cloths in Tajrish up to Vali-asr intersection & there up to Jamalzade ave. 8:56:Anti-riot police attacking people w their bikes. Ppl have put large garbage containers on fire 8:58:Clashes continue in Beheshti, Motahari, North Hafez, Vali-asr, Zartosht, Fatemi & surrounding areas 9:00:Clashes between protestors with plain-clothes and special guards in Mashhad city Mellat park 9:02:Both sides of Khosravi ave (where neda was shot) blocked by forces 9:05:About 500 ppl marching toward IRIB 9:10:Gunshoots at Amir Abad,at least 10 ppl injured, 2 Police motorcycls on fire 9:11:Police arresting some protesters in Abbas Abad street 9:12:Basij have shot the doors in mosala and protesters are lock inside they need help 9:13: The crowd in Behesht Zahra cemetery today was 40,000 9:15:Jafar Panahi & Mahnaz Mohammadi are released ! 9:17:There are too much damaged cars with broken windows in Takhte tavous , Abbas Abad streets and surrounding areas where a large number of people are still there. Some of the automobiles drivers have told that they have been told by plain-clothes and militia forces not to blow the horns and for threatening drivers ,they are hammering cars by baton and bars 9:30:Another documentarist (Rokhsare Ghaem Maghami) was also arrested with Panahi & is now released
In the WPI Press Centre's briefing of 8 July Patty Debonitas interviews Hamid Taqvaee on the survival tactics of the Islamic regime in the face of ongoing protests and the upcoming 10th anniversary of the bloody repression of student protests in Iran.
In the 1 July Daily Dispatch from the WPI's press centre Patty Debonitas asks Hamid Taqvaee to comment on the statement and demands made by Mousavi in response to Ahmadinejad being confirmed as president and whether this will have any impact on the protests and the demands of the demonstrators. Watch here
The Daily Dispatch from the WPI's press centre: Ahmadinejad has been confirmed as president and the media reports that protests are going down in Iran. Does this mean the end of the protests? Hamid Taqvaee gives a different view, speaking about the changing form of the protests and the defiance of the protesters, in his interview with Patty Debonitas. Also the statement from the EU meeting discussing Iran, the forthcoming G8 summit and the US. Watch it here
Today, 26 June 2009, hundreds gathered in front of the Islamic Republic of Iran's embassy in Stockholm, Sweden to protest against the Islamic regime of Iran.
Around 4.30pm the protesters surged forward, broke through police lines, broke down the embassy doors and entered it. The armed security of the Islamic regime attempted to stop the protesters. They were immediately unarmed; embassy staff then fled the buidling.
Swedish police arrived and fired shots in the air after which the demonstrators left the building.
The daily dispatch from the WPI's Press Centre looks at the recent statements of Barack Obama about the protests in Iran. Patty Debonitas discusses with Hamid Taqvaee the strategy of the US for the current and a future government in Iran. Will the US support the WPI in power in Iran? Watch here
TV International is looking at the claims that the current events in Iran are just a stage in the evolution of the Islamic Regime. Maryam Namazie interviews Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush on Neda becoming the symbol of the protests in Iran and the impact that New Channel TV has had in Iran with its phone-in live broadcasts. Watch it here
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