Islamic Republic is the Real Problem

Islamic Republic of Iran is an Islamic theocracy. The real power to vet the candidates before and after they emerge from “Islamic Ballot Boxes” and the final power to veto any legislation deemed un-Islamic is with an unelected body called the Guardian Council.

The Guardian Council is made up of senile aged clerics determined to run Iran as a medieval religious dictatorship.

The people of Iran have had their revolution of 1979 hijacked by these clerics of the dark ages. In the last 25 years, Iranian people have struggled for a secular democracy and a better life without much help from the international community.

• When the women in Iran were forced to wear the veil again, no women’s organisations in the West marched in support of the Iranian women who wanted to choose what to wear.

• When kids as young as 12 and pregnant women were executed by the Islamic Republic for opposing the Islamic regime, no one marched to condemn the Islamic Republic’s hideous acts.

• When virgin teenage dissident girls were raped before execution so as not to enter the “Islamic heaven” after their deaths, no one in the West marched to express their condemnation.

• When women in Iran are put into a sack and buried up to their waist and stoned to a cruel agonising slow death, no so-called progressive organisations in the West have marched to condemn this barbaric act.

• When the Iranian political prisoners, mostly Left-wing activists, were massacred in their thousands in 1988, no one, including the Left in the West marched to stop the massacre.

• When thousands of Iranian students were rounded up in 1999 and given long-term sentences during the student uprisings that took place across 19 Iranian cities, the so-called progressive organisations and students in the West, again were silent.

Yes, we are against a military invasion of our country. But in order to guarantee peace and security for the people of Iran and the Middle East, first we must get rid of the theocratic, medieval religious dictatorship in Iran that supports, harbours and sponsors international terrorism. Only a free and democratic Iran will be the best guarantee against any military intervention.

Give us a hand, lets oppose the Islamic Republic of Iran today.

Alliance of Iranian Students
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