4,370 CONFIRMED DEADOrder Prevails in Tehran - eddieshin
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Quick run-down: Unlike previous mass protests in Iran the current ones were caused primarily by crushing economic conditions rather than civil rights, and so they carry undeniable proletarian character and potential. The true scale of the protests is hard to confirm due to conflicting imperialist propaganda, however the staggering death toll in such a short period dwarfs the previous protests.
Recent reports from the streets by Worker-Communist Party of Iran (Hekmatist) translated from Farsi (Jan. 7-13)
>The Iranian people do not need a military attack by American bombers, nor do they need international criminals to intensify sanctions and attack their livelihoods for freedom, prosperity, and equality, to be free from the clutches of the Islamic Republic. Lifting sanctions, preventing a military attack on Iran, and cutting off the hands of international criminals from their lives and struggles is the demand of tens of millions of people in Iran and the demand of their freedom-seeking movement.
>After two weeks of protests in Iran and their spread to various cities, the Islamic Republic has taken extensive measures against the protesting people under the pretext and relying on Mossad’s claims of its interference. The Internet shutdown in Iran, the arrival of the army to confront the protesting people and the loss of a large number of protesters and deprived people, threats to government leaders from the Supreme Leader’s Office to the judiciary and widespread arrests, attacks on hospitals and house-to-house raids, and all-out propaganda by the state media and attributing the protests to the people’s rights to Mossad, introducing every protester as a Mossad spy and their agents, have created serious dangers.
>The Islamic Republic has in common with the fascist governments of Israel and America and their pawns in the opposition, pushing back this movement and blinding its radical and freedom-loving horizon. One is by ordering an “uprising” and turning the protests into street fighting and terrorizing it, and the other is by suppressing them under the pretext of Mossad’s interference and confronting it!
>To Communists: come to the streets to prevent the protests from turning into bloodshed and to ensure their progress!
>Marginal forces whose efforts to ride the wave of protests have failed and do not have the social power to divert mass protests have officially today set the policy of bloodletting in the protests to their agenda by launching mercenary and armed gangs against their opponents, declaring an armed uprising, and prematurely bringing weapons to the field in the protests. These forces, along with the apparatus of repression and the internal gangs of the Islamic Republic, are the ones who are responsible for bloodletting in the protests and the lives of the people.
>The Rajavi sect has issued an order for an armed uprising and the capture of military bases. It is as if the "rebel centers" of the Mujahideen are going to "liberate the cities and then hand them over to the local councils"!
>There is no doubt that this heavily armed regime will ultimately be overthrown in an armed uprising. There is no doubt that the people who rise up and protest have the right to use any means and weapons to defend themselves and defeat the enemy. But sending young people to war prematurely is deliberately taking them to the slaughterhouse and mass protests.
>The movement and uprising of the hungry is going its own way and, independent of the small and large insects of reaction, with vigilance and open eyes, it is organizing, uniting and nationwide its protest and struggle, protecting its activists and leaders, and building its own future. Ensuring this is the work of us communists, the work of radical and freedom-loving activists.Statement of the Workers’ Councils of Arak: All power to the councils! (Jan. 12)
>“To the workers of Markazi Province, to our comrades in Khuzestan, and to all the people of Iran.”
>For decades, our demands for bread have been answered with bullets, and our demands for dignity with prison. But today, the silence has come to an end. We, the workers of Arak’s factories, declare the following:
>Workplace control: From now on, the management of the Machine Manufacturing Company, AzarAb, and Wagon Pars factories will be in the hands of workers’ councils elected by the workers themselves. We no longer recognize managers appointed by the state or the regime’s puppet unions.https://cpiran.org/statement-of-the-workers-councils-of-arak-all-power-to-the-councils/Joint statement of Worker-Communist Parties of Iraq and Kurdistan (Jan. 7)
>The protests come amidst profound political transformations in the region and a clear decline in Iranian influence, which had expanded in recent years through militias and their allies, relying on funds looted from the working class and the welfare of the lranian masses. In the same vein, American imperialism, known for its bullying and unwavering support for fascist regimes, foremost among them the state of lsrael, is attempting to market itself as a defender of human rights and a supporter of the demands of the lranian masses, by brandishing the threat of blatant intervention, as recently occurred in Venezuela the two Communist Workers' Parties in Iraq and Kurdistan, while declaring their full solidarity and support for the just demands of the lranian working class and the masses yearning for freedom and dignity simultaneously warn against relying on American policies or allowing its intervention which plays a role in providing the lranian regime with pretexts to escalate its repression of the protesters.
>Any real change, any tangible improvement, and any victory for the protests in lran depends on maintaining their independence, separating their ranks from American imperialist policies, and preserving their class and popular unity.>Long live the working class of Iran>Long live the just demands of the Iranian people for freedom and equalityhttps://wp-iraq.com/الى-الامام-273Unconditional support to Iranian workers as they face the full savagery of capital on the local and international fronts.
NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR 136 posts and 15 image replies omitted.>>2649440>Claiming that there's no Mossad interferenceLearn to read faggot.
They claim Mossad is interfering, against the workers.
>>2649449leftcoms are never beating the obsessed with the deprogram allegations
>>2649434t. nafo boot-licker
>>2649472KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK
>>2649464>>2649457>>2649449Thank you, CIA.
Now back to the every-day needs of the Iranian workers and farmers, if you don't mind!
>>2649472Fact #1: it was your (NATO) side that kept saying that the Iranian "regime" kept killing workers exclusively. This has been recorded and posted above.
Fact #2: now that you see how silly that position is, you shift the burden of yours onto us (actual communists) and claim that it was us all along who said that Iran was pro-worker, or whatever.
Fact #3: you are a literal paid glow shill who will die being tortured to death by proletarian supersoldiers.
bye bye
>>2649465What does this mean?
>Mossad’s claims of its interference>In no other context will Iran take Mossad's claims at face value>why is Iran trusting and citing the Mossad?It implies that Mossad's claims at having boots on the ground and interfering are either false or unserious, which they are obviously not. That the IRI is only repeating these claims because it suits them, not because there's actual israeli interference, just an excuse for repression
>>2649485It continues to state
>The Islamic Republic has in common with the fascist governments of Israel and America and their pawns in the opposition, pushing back this movement and blinding its radical and freedom-loving horizon. One is by ordering an “uprising” and turning the protests into street fighting and terrorizing it, and the other is by suppressing them under the pretext of Mossad’s interference and confronting it! >>2649492This is basic organic centralism. The state is a real human organ.
Did iranian commies declare an armed uprising? Is this a correct decision?
Do you guys have any criticisms of iranian communist party?
>>2649503the Arak soviet has a people's army with katyusha rockets
>Islam differs sharply from communism. Whereas we respect private property, communism advocates the sharing of all things – including wives and homosexuals -khomenei
>Khomeini strongly opposed Marxism. `Atheistic Marxists` were the one group he excluded from the broad coalition of anti-Shah groups he worked to rally behind his leadership.
>And I am confident that the Iranian people, particularly our youth, will keep alive in their hearts anger and hatred for the criminal Soviet Union- khomenei
>`We have often proclaimed this truth in our domestic and foreign policy, namely that we have set as our goal the world-wide spread of the influence of Islam and the suppression of the rule of the world conquerors. We wish to cause the corrupt roots of Zionism, capitalism and Communism to wither throughout the world. We wish, as does God almighty, to destroy the systems which are based on these three foundations, and to promote the Islamic order of the Prophet. in the world of arrogance- khomenei
Now this is true revolutionary thought! If you don't agree with this you are not a real leftist
This is an interimperialist conflict period.
>>2649528Islam offers 72 virgins that you will be mating pressing forever. What does communism offer?
Israeli logistical support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)
Israel sold Iran US$75 million worth of arms from stocks of Israel Military Industries, Israel Aircraft Industries and Israel Defense Forces stockpiles, in their Operation Seashell in 1981.[37] Material included 150 M-40 antitank guns with 24,000 shells for each gun, spare parts for tank and aircraft engines, 106 mm, 130 mm, 203 mm and 175 mm shells and TOW missiles. This material was transported first by air by Argentine airline Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense and then by ship. The same year Israel provided active military support against Iraq by destroying the Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad, which the Iranians themselves had previously targeted, but the doctrine established by the attack would increase potential conflict in future years.
Arms sales to Iran that totaled an estimated $500 million from 1981 to 1983 according to the Jafe Institute for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Most of it was paid for by Iranian oil delivered to Israel. "According to Ahmad Haidari, "an Iranian arms dealer working for the Khomeini government, roughly 80% of the weaponry bought by Tehran" immediately after the onset of the war originated in Israel.[38
According to Mark Phythian, the fact "that the Iranian air force could function at all" after Iraq's initial attack and "was able to undertake a number of sorties over Baghdad and strike at strategic installations" was "at least partly due to the decision of the Reagan administration to allow Israel to channel arms of US origin to Iran to prevent an easy and early Iraqi victory".[39]
Despite all the speeches of Iranian leaders and the denunciation of Israel at Friday prayers, there were never less than around one hundred Israeli advisers and technicians in Iran at any time throughout the war, living in a carefully guarded and secluded camp just north of Tehran, where they remained even after the ceasefire.[40]
Israeli sales also included spare parts for U.S.-made F-4 Phantom jets.[41] Ariel Sharon believed it was important to "leave a small window open" to the possibility of good relations with Iran in the future.[42
Very cool!
>>2649487>>2649493Yeah this doesn't address the question of israeli interference bro, this just states that there's undefined "marginal forces" that exacerbate the violence and "pawns in the opposition" if you want to claim that they're talking about mossad insurgents there then that undermines the previous point of it being merely mossad's "claims". You are the one who brought up the question of why Iran would take Mossad's claims at face value. I say, because they're true.
Marc Rich, an Israeli-Swiss businessman with international ties, began doing business in Iran through his Glencore company headquartered in Switzerland. Rich ignored US and international sanctions on Iran and became the primary trader of Iranian oil for 15 years.[203] He claimed that the oil he bought from Iran was shipped to Israel and both countries were aware of this transaction.[204] Rich provided the Iranian government with weapons and missiles through the Iran–Iraq War
Rich was born in 1934 to a Jewish family in Antwerp, Belgium.[2][3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Richfollowing the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, during the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Rich used his special relationship with Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution, to buy oil from Iran despite the American embargo. According to Forbes Magazine, Asadollah Asgaroladi was also the secret business partner of Rich in helping bypass U.S. sanctions against Iran after the Iranian revolution.[16] Iran would become Rich's most important supplier of crude oil for more than 15 years. Rich sold Iranian oil to Israel through a secret pipeline.[17][18][19] Due to his good relationship with Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini, Rich helped give Mossad's agents contacts in Iran.[20]
He popularised the use of letters of credit in the oil trade.[21][22]
Rich had made substantial donations to Israeli charitable foundations over the years, and many senior Israeli officials, such as Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert, argued on his behalf behind the scenes.[40] Many leading figures of the Jewish world such as Abraham Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), whose organization had received over $250,000 from Rich over the years also wrote to President Clinton for Rich's pardon.[41][42] Among other leading Jewish leaders writing to Clinton were Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israel's former foreign minister; Michael Steinhardt, a philanthropist and CEO of Steinhardt Associates; and Rabbi Irving Greenberg, chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, which oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Rich was a strong supporter of Israel throughout his life, having donated around $150 million to institutions such as the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, research centers, theaters, as well as numerous other documented causes over the years.[71]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_RichInteresting!
The 2001 uprising in Herat was a coordinated insurrection and uprising in the Afghan city of Herat as part of the United States war in Afghanistan. The city was captured on November 12 by Northern Alliance forces as well as Special Forces of the United States, the United Kingdom[1] and Iran.[2][3
The U.S. Special Operations teams consisted of U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force under the command of CENTCOM General Tommy Franks. Iranian forces consisted of agents of the Quds Force under the command of Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, commander of the IRGC, and Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's Quds Force.[3] The Northern Alliance faction consisted of over 5,000 militiamen under the command of Ismail Khan, a commander in the previous Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and former governor of Herat before the Taliban came into power in 1995.[citation needed]
UK Special Forces for reasons of national security remained anonymous and did not reveal their formal command structure.[4
The plan, organized by General Franks and General Safavi, was for Iranian Special Forces to discreetly enter the city and form an insurrection against the Taliban. This sudden event was to coincide with the entrance of Ismail Khan's band of Northern Alliance militia members into the city. Meanwhile, a team of U.S. Special Forces and CIA agents would oversee the operation in Tehran alongside Iranian military intelligence.[5]
Combat operations began on October 7, 2001. Towards the end of the month, U.S. air strikes hit targets in and around Herat, including tanks, communications facilities, and tunnel complexes.[6] This also includes the Herat airport, where Russian-made fighters were destroyed.[citation needed]
On 11 November 2001, U.S. Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha 554 ("Tiger 08") was inserted by helicopter near Herat.[7] As planned, Iranian commandos secretly entered Herat to begin the insurrection on November 12, which successfully gave way to what Ismail Khan claimed to be, the local uprising against the Taliban leaders. The Northern Alliance, Shi'ite Hazara factions, and a small group of U.S. Special Forces then entered the city.[5] Herati residents also took part in the uprising with sticks, knives, and guns hidden throughout the populace. The city fell as the Taliban fled towards the mountains along the Iranian border, leaving behind several abandoned tanks. Prisoners, including Chechen and Arab volunteers, were taken to undisclosed locations.[8]
The uprising was met with celebratory gunfire from residents. Iranian media even went as far as to report widespread celebration including 'dancing on the rooftops' and honking car horns.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_uprising_in_Herat>>2649323>its billions of dollars being spent on making war while people live on scrapsNuclear energy equals war? Sure anon.
>>2649565Do you want wholesome islamic aes in israel by 2050 or not you nato ultra wrecker
Exodus status?
>>2649552>>2649552>>The Islamic Republic has in common with the fascist governments of Israel and America and their pawns in the opposition…>Yeah this doesn't address the question of israeli interferencekys
>they're talking about mossad insurgents there then that undermines the previous pointIt doesn't because the claim is Mossad is sponsoring the protests while in reality (as the WCPI demonstrates) it is crushing it
The Zionists in this thread are trying to construct an alternative reality
Good thing nobody believes them
>>2649607Ok so they do claim Israeli interference, they're just coy about it that's fine. But then the IRI is not merely using claims by the mossad as a pretext for repression, those claims are true, there is mossad agents amongst the protest, they do try to accelerate them violently, which the IRI has to respond to. So again, why would you act like it's some conspiracy that Iran would take these claims at face value? Why all the soying out about what an epic sentence "Mossad's claims of interference" is?
>>2649638No Anon you don't get it! Israel and Iran cooperated in the 80s, therefore we should ignore everything that's happened since then and is happening right now!
so, am i supposed to be on the side of the reactionary theocracy, or no? someone clear things up for me.
>>2649655You're supposed to be against the interference of your own government in Iran's affairs. Anything outside of that is an impotent opinion that will make no difference.
>>2649671
>The IRGC and Mossad are working hand in hand for ultimately the same purpose.
Wtf are you smoking? Where would you get this notion? Why would Israel want to preserve the Islamic Republic?
>>2649644You're coming with this with the presupposition that protests are le evil psyop, not natural consequence of the economic conditions, like Iranian communists do. Obviously you can't comprehend how the Mossad could interfere on the side of the bourgeoisie to maintain the status quo. The IRGC and Mossad are working hand in hand for ultimately the same purpose.
If the IRGC infiltrated the protests to sow chaos amongst the workers and give itself pretext for bloodshed (and it does), will that make the bloodshed justifiable? Because as far as the class struggle is concerned there are only two camps, the bourgeoisie (Iran, Israel, so-called opposition, etc) and workers.
The communists claim those actors are attacking the protesters directly with knives for chanting the wrong slogans btw, it's not merely through coercion that they're fighting against workers.
And yes the Mossad claims of supporting the protests are false. It's laughable that you believe not only is the Mossad jeopardizing its mission (something it never does, unless it ISN'T its mission) but also Iran's citing Mossad's word uncritically.
>>2649689>The IRGC and Mossad are working hand in hand for ultimately the same purpose. This is completely unreasonable and batshit insane.
>>2649697>>2649680>what is class struggle?on-ground Iranian communists >>> your libshit geopol reddit world view
Iranian Communists are claiming Israel and IRGC are united in murdering Iranian workers the same way they claimed Khomeini and Saddam were united in murdering Iranian workers
If you can't understand this material reality, you're not qualified to discuss this topic.
>>2649674should britain have not intervened when hitler invaded poland?
>>2649704Hey those are the lumpen Iraqi mercenaries killing Iranian workers!
Too bad they handed all the oil to the US afterwards :/
>>2649718NAT but Britain was more progressive choice if a choice has to be made. I would prefer myself not cheerleading any capitalist power.
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