The Shah and the mullahs: Partners in Oppression

The confrontation between the Iranian people and the regime in the past year has laid bare the has laid bare the outcome of the claimants’ stances and slogans. Those striving to restore the Shah’s dictatorship have shown that their vision for tomorrow is one of repression of society and oppressed nationalities alike.


The Shah raised the banner of the “White Revolution” and the “Great Civilization.” Khomeini proclaimed an “Islamic Revolution,” and Rafsanjani spoke of a “Great Islamic Civilization.” Yet under both systems, execution squads and massacres were ever-present, proportionate to the resistance they faced.

If Iranian society had been as stagnant and silent as to accept the son of Khamenei or the son of the Shah, there would have been no revolution, no uprising, no Resistance Units, and no Liberation Army. For years, the very word “revolution” was taboo, forbidden, and feared, until social upheaval forced even the Shah’s heir to abandon his father’s “White Revolution” and cling instead to the irrelevant slogan of a “Lion and Sun revolution.”

Throughout Iran’s history, Shah and the mullahs have walked hand in hand in oppression, twin manifestations of tyranny. But the people of Iran and the forces of the democratic revolution are determined to repair a century of destruction.

The vision of a democratic society, first drawn by Massoud Rajavi and guiding the Resistance ever since, remains the inspiration of our struggle.

The future can be built from today. Its path lies in uniting around principles shared by the majority of Iranians: a democratic republic, separation of religion and state, autonomy for nationalities, gender equality, abolition of the death penalty, and a non-nuclear Iran living in peace and coexistence with the world.

A provisional government to transfer sovereignty to the people and establish a democratic republic, based on a Ten-Point Plan, serves precisely this goal.

Defending the rights of Iranian women, and of oppressed compatriots among the Baluch, Arab, Kurdish, and Turkmen peoples, is part of this same path.

Salutations to all who resist, from the Ashraf – 3 supporters across the globe, to the members of the People’s Mojahedin (PMOI/MEK) residing Ashraf-3, and to the supporters inside Iran who struggle for this cause.

https://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en/message-for-nowruz-1405/

Location: Germany

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