A Requiem for Dictatorship

Roozonline (Reformist publication): ...
Akbar Mousavi Khoini, said, “We witness that the administration has failed to satisfy public needs, and faces international crises as well. The regime is even willing to give up a part of its territory to resolve its international crises.”


The secretary-general of the Advar-e Tahkim Organization added, “The regime is losing its mental stability and its behavior contradicts that of a strong regime. We have to be alert and not become entangled in the regime’s trap.”

Mousavi Khoini called on parties and groups to stand up to the regime’s increasing oppression before its spreads to other areas: “We ask organizations, individuals and even grand ayatollahs to take a stance on this issue. I also ask students to pursue their rights through civil and legal means and not allow a group of dictators and traitors to crush their efforts in the name of confronting chaos.”

Activist Abbas Abdi also spoke at the gathering: “Right now, the Iranian government is asking to fight not just with the United States, but with everyone, the East and the West. But they arrest 6 students that are sitting in front of a university, and that shows their real weakness. No government in the world reacts like this to a small protest. People who have not gone to prison do not understand what imprisonment and solitary confinement mean. When a regime puts students in solitary confinement, it means that the political system has lost its confidence.

In conclusion, the head of the Participation Front’s Women’s Committee, Fatemeh Rakei, remarked, “Women and students are sharing one another’s pain. Despite differences in ideological and political attitudes, all Iranians believed during the 1979 Revolution that the chapter of dictatorship must forever be closed in Iran. Unfortunately, we still witness such acts.”

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