23 September 2013.
By
Hassan Rouhani
The new president of Iran, was due
to address the United Nations General Assembly opening in New York on 24
September. Following is a statement and leaflet put out by "Activists of
the Communist Party of Iran (MLM) in North America", which planned to
hold protests outside the UN during Rouhani's appearance.
On 24 September, Iran’s recently
elected president, Hassan Rouhani, will give a speech at the
United Nations. His trip to New
York coincidentally falls on the same day on which Iranian political refugees
all over the world are grieving the
mass murder and execution of political prisoners in Iran in the summer and
autumn of 1988.
Rouhani’s cabinet members such as
Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, Ali Rabii and Hamid Chiyan were directly involved in
that particular mass murder. They are known to be cold-blooded murderers and
some of the worst among the Islamic regime of Iran. Pour Mohammadi is often
referred to as the "president of death". He was directly and actively
involved in the executions of political prisoners in the 1980s in Iran. He, along
with many other members of Rouhani’s ministerial cabinet were responsible for
thousands of death penalties which were delivered in less than a couple of
minutes to the political prisoners of Iran in the 1980s.
Iran's new president introduces
himself as the people's "hope"! But in
fact he represents a new alliance among different factions
of the Islamic Republic regime. He has climbed to the seat
of power with the support
of the Sepah-e-Pasdaran (the Revolutionary Guards, the main body of the
regime's military forces), the notorious security establishment of the regime
and the "leader" (Ayatollah Khamenii) himself.
Rouhani was essentially chosen as
president to perform several tasks essential for the survival of
the Islamic Republic system. He must initially provide a false hope about "reforming
the system" – a false hope to
those who are
suffering from expanding poverty
and are fed up with political and social suppression and
religious obscurantism. He should also assure the imperialists that the contradiction between the
Islamic Republic system and the imperialists is not of an antagonistic nature
and in fact the relations should be healed and Iran should be looked at by them
as a reliable partner in controlling and exploiting the masses of Iran as well
as in carrying out the imperialists' regional plans – given that those powers
also ensure the survival of this
regime.
Iran's regime and the Islamic
Republic system is an integrated part of the world capitalist system which is
controlled by the imperialist powers. The feud between the Islamic Republic and
the imperialist powers is in fact the fight and contradiction between two "rotten poles"
within this system and there is no element of "anti-imperialism" on
the part of the Islamic regime of Iran.
In Iran, like the whole world, the majority of the people
produce the wealth which is appropriated by a minority of parasitic
capitalists. Like all other countries dominated
by imperialism in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the Iranian economy is totally
dependent on the world capitalist system. The more it gets integrated into the
world capitalist system the wider becomes the class chasm and political
suppression of the masses. The regime in Iran is a theocratic regime which constantly
attacks people's mind and body – especially women's. Political suppression
is one of the pillars of this regime. In fact, its very existence depends on
trampling upon the most basic political, cultural and social rights of the
majority of the people of Iran.
National oppression is another
touchstone of this regime. In sum, the contradiction, between the Islamic
Republic regime and the people of Iran is of an antagonistic nature. This
reality brings about the necessity and possibility of a revolutionary overthrow
of the Islamic Republic of Iran. We, the revolutionary communists of Iran, know too well
that if we do not mobilise and
organise people in a movement for revolution, the reactionary, corrupt and crisis-ridden ruling classes of Iran will be able to survive through suppressing and
deceiving people in different ways and manners, and therefore will get a new lease on life, and their
rotten rule will last longer and destroy more generations. We are well aware
that if the masses of Iran do not become conscious of and take up a
revolutionary communist vision and programme which can enable them to really and radically change their conditions, then even if
they rise up against this hated regime, without taking up that
vision they will fall into the trap of some other reactionary
forces or be wooed by the
alternatives that U.S. imperialism has in pocket for the future of Iran. This would definitely turn Iran into another tragedy like the ones we are witnessing
in Syria and Egypt, where people have become captives of warring rival
reactionary forces, each of which have the backing of this or that imperialist
power.
There is only one solution:
to overthrow the Islamic Republic system through a revolutionary
struggle with the goal of destroying all of its reactionary class and religious
relations and values and instead establish a new state which would be really by
the people and for the people and would pursue the goal of organising a new
society based on a new economy, new politics and new social
relations – a kind of society that we communists call a socialist society and
which we consider a road to achieve a kind of world without any sort of oppression and
exploitation, a communist world.
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