Iran violence

December 2019   Iran is experiencing its deadliest political unrest in the streets since the Islamic Revolution of 40 years ago. Hundreds have been killed. Street protests have been put down with lethal unrestrained force.

It all began a few weeks ago with an abrupt increase of at least 50 % in gasoline prices.  Since any provocation was likely to set off the pre-existing tinderbox of anger against the Regime, hundreds outraged demonstrators in many cities were calling for an end to the Islamic Republic’s Islamic government.

Government forces responded by shooting unarmed protesters. The use of lethal force against citizens throughout Iran is unprecedented, even for this notoriously brutal Regime.

This time, hundreds have been murdered in the streets, and thousands wounded and even more arrested.

The extent of the government brutality was obscured by a government internet blackout, but the truth of the tragedy is gradually being exposed.

The violence reveals how fragile and afraid the Regime is over any protest to its Islamists dictatorship.

State media has admitted that protests had erupted in most provinces, and some military bases had been attacked. Attacks against Banks, public spaces, religious centers, gas stations, as well as burned vehicles and torched police cars were all evidence of the seriousness of the social and political conflict. A video on Twitter suggests that tanks had been deployed against people in the streets.

This Regime has pushed its people toward desperate violence, by its years of smothering cultural and legal subjugations of Islamic political rule.

The government’s brazen harsh response to the protests, signaled a hard deep rift between Iran’s leadership and the population of 80 million.

Although the government’s reaction was brutal, desperate citizens appear not to be afraid to take to the streets. There is a sense of hopelessness with Islamic control of all aspects of living.

The Regime is hunkering down for the inevitable war for its survival. It is placing missiles in other countries to add a protective threat to any potential invader. Nevertheless, it still exports money and arms to terrorist organizations, and the Regime remains an international scourge. Iran also joined the war in Africa against Saudi Arabia with secret missile attacks.

Since the Regime now only survives through bribery, thuggery, capricious imprisonment of its people, and raw fear, all under the cover of religious lies, the Regime is seen as ruthless, similar to the last months of Hitler’s Regime where any means were justified.  The religious fanatics in control, are being challenged from outside by western governments, as well as former citizens in exile who have organized a resistance network. Once again citizens within the country are rising in desperation for a better life that has hope.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI – Paris France), described the killing of the protesters as a manifest case of crime against humanity.  She demanded urgent action by the world community so that the murder and suppression of the protesters are halted immediately.  She called on the United Nations to quickly dispatch fact-finding missions to Iran.  Mrs. Rajavi added that the regime leaders must face justice for perpetrating crimes against humanity.  Silence and inaction, she said, are both a violation of international conventions, laws ad standards, and embolden the Regime to continue its crimes and expand them to the region.

Philip Luther of Amnesty International said, “The international community’s cautious and muted response to the unlawful killing of protesters is woefully inadequate. They must condemn these killings in the strongest possible terms and describe these events for what they are – the deadly and wholly unwarranted use of force to crush dissent.”