Dear Compatriots,
Ali Khamenei - the Supreme Leader of the despotic regime - while
confirming [in a speech] that the rise in the price of petrol, like all
other key economic-political decisions, has taken place with his
agreement, has denounced as "villains" those people that have had enough
of tyranny and deprivation under "Islamic rule" and has in effect
ordered a bloody crackdown on the popular protests. Following
Khamenei’s speech, the so-called "Reformers" in the Parliament
immediately withdrew their emergency bill that had demanded petrol
prices be returned to their previous level.
In today’s [parliamentary] session, the Speaker of the Parliament,
Ali Larijani, addressing Khamenei’s speech, said, "After hearing [his]
profound" speech [it is essential that members of parliament] follow the
direction outlined and seriously pursue the concerns over the economic
problems." Subsequent to Khamenei’s speech yesterday, Ibrahim Raisi,
the notorious criminal now heading the regime’s judiciary, also made a
statement demanding that all prosecutors across the country "Collaborate
with the police and security forces to enforce the law by decisively
targeting the thugs, those affiliated with counter-revolutionary streams
and the infiltrators who have targeted the security of the people and
society with their subversive acts." The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps
(IRGC) has threatened the protestors and working people and declared
that it will deal decisively with any "disturbance".
As per its usual approach, in order to implement its plan for a
bloody and widespread crackdown on the popular protests, the regime has
shut down the [main] means of communication, - including the internet
and a large part of the country's mobile-phone network - and has
severely disrupted all forms of public transport, including the Metro
lines in Tehran and Isfahan. Several schools and universities have been
shut down in various cities and, according to the latest reports, more
than 1,000 protesters have been detained with hundreds injured and
dozens killed in violent and repressive [counter-]operations. Despite
all this repression, the popular protests continue in Tehran, Tabriz,
Isfahan, Shiraz, Yazd, Sari as well as most cities in the provinces of
Kurdistan and Khuzestan.
The manner with which the regime and its leaders have responded to
the people's [legitimate and] righteous protests against the destructive
and anti-national policies of the government, show once again that one
cannot expect anything other than repression, trampling upon the
people’s rights, and tyranny from the despotic regime. What now
prevails in our homeland is the rule of the dark-minded, who have no
intention of pursuing the national interest and the will of the people,
and whose main concern is the survival and continuance of their despotic
and oppressive rule at any cost.
Historical experience and the evidence from the struggle of the
peoples of the region have shown that it is only by persevering the
united and coherent struggle of the people [along the path of radical
change] that tyrannical rule can be seriously challenged and pushed back
step-by-step. It is the duty of all progressive and freedom-seeking
forces to support this popular uprising under the current critical
circumstances.
The Tudeh Party of Iran, while condemning the brutal and bloody
crackdown on the righteous and oppressed people of our homeland, once
again calls upon all progressive Iranian forces to defend the people's
struggle with all their might. We also call on all progressive and
freedom-seeking forces around the world to express their solidarity with
the struggle of the Iranian people and raise their voices against the
[savage] repression [being meted out by] the regime.
The Tudeh Party of Iran
18 November 2019
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