Statement
of the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) on the Recent Developments in the
Middle East Region
The
assassination of Qassem Soleimani by the U.S. and the Iranian and the world
response to it, has prompted our Party to reaffirm its principled stance on the
matter and investigate the effects of this U.S. terrorist action on Iran and
the world.
General
Soleimani was a commander who voluntarily went to war against the Iraqi’s
military invasion of Iran, defended the territorial integrity of the country,
and gradually became a prominent military strategist. Qassem Soleimani also
took the lead in the fight against ISIS, especially at the time when the U.S.
backed terrorists made their way to Baghdad with the hope of coming to Tehran.
General Soleimani defeated the murderous attempts of ISIS by establishing a
united front and founding the para-military group Hashad al-Shaabi (Popular
Mobilization Forces) in Iraq.
Qassem
Soleimani, as an experienced military man and a diplomat, was a popular and
respectable army general not only to a large section of the Iranian society,
but also to the entire region and many world leaders.
According
to documents released by the international press and by the statement of Iraqi
Prime Minister Adel al-Mahdi, Soleimani had traveled to Iraq at the invitation
of the Iraqi government in order to facilitate negotiation between Iran and
Saudi Arabia. In a press interview, al-Mahdi unmasked the U.S. lies that
"We had the exact information that Soleimani had come to assassinate the Americans
in Iraq".
Al-Mahdi
declared: "For the record, I say that at eight o'clock in the morning, I
had a meeting with General Soleimani. I wanted to give him the Saudi letter
that was about the developments in Iraq and peace in the region."
The
fact is that the Iranian government has long been trying to put an end to the
turmoil that the U.S. has created in the region. U.S. imperialism coming from
8,000 kilometers away has built dozens
of military and terrorist bases around Iran, has occupied the territories of
the region, is plotting and sabotaging against the formal, legal and legitimate
governments of the region, and is
causing tension in the Middle East. The Policy of the Iranian government in the
region includes the removal of tension in the region, prevention of war and
destruction, demands for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the region, and
the establishment of a partnership agreement with the Persian Gulf states that
guarantees security in the region. If implemented, these policies would
primarily serve the national interest and the interest of the working class and
the people of Iran.
Israel
is the only country that benefits from the chaos in the region and wants to
interrupt any attempts at reconciliation, cooperation, and peace. Continued
provocative Israeli actions in Iraq, the bombing of Syria, targeting Iranian
ships in the Red Sea with its missiles and accusing Saudi Arabia for it, and
other Israeli acts of sabotage in the Persian Gulf are in the service of
preventing the Arab countries from getting close to Iran. This proximity is of
strategic importance in the region, reinforcing the Palestinian Liberation
Movement, curtailing Israeli so that it fails to exploit divisions in the
region for the benefit of its own expansionist and tension-creating goals. That
is why political analysts reiterate that Trump has been used by his Zionist
adviser and has fulfilled Israel's wish without thinking about the consequences
of his actions. In the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, you see the filthy
hands of Israel Zionism.
The Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) strongly
condemns the Trump–ordered assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a well-known
Iranian official, who had traveled to Iraq for negotiation with Saudi Arabia.
This is a manifestation of state terrorism in the world. This criminal act by
Trump is a clear violation of the rights of nations, universally recognized
norms and standards, and a trampling on achievements of humanity and global
agreements.
The
right to national sovereignty is a democratic right that all countries of the
world are entitled to regardless of ideology, the size of country, the nature
of state, religion, race, language, and so on. President Trump, by an
assassination order, has thrown this important achievement of mankind into a
landfill. All countries in the world, with the exception of Israel, condemned
this terrorist act. Trump’s hideous crime was condemned by the UN Secretary
General.
National
sovereignty or democratic rights are the rights that are independent of the
nature of governments. Democratic rights are not divisible. Only tyrants and
fascists do not recognize these universal rights in the present world. The
rights of men and women are equal whether they are from working-class or from
the bourgeoisie. This is also true of the national sovereignty and rights that
our country Iran has. One cannot use the form and ideology of the government in
Iran to deny the rights that belong to Iran as a country with a long history.
When
the news of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani reached Iran, the society
boiled over because our awakened nation did not condone the humiliation and
violation of Iran's national sovereignty. Millions of people took to the
streets of many cities to protest and participate in the funeral procession. A
nation that came to the streets for the love of its country in November 2019
and lost its sons and daughters in the fight against the repressive regime of
the Islamic Republic, refused to undermine the interests of his country for the
sake of revenge and vengeance on the ruling regime and to dance for Trump’s act
of terrorism. The punishment of the Iranian government for its crimes must be
determined only by the Iranian people, not by Trump or Netanyahu. This message
was sent by the Iranian nation to all the world's bullies and to the Iranian
sellout opposition. The people of Iran love their country, are full of national
pride, differentiate Iran from the Islamic Republic, and are ready to carry out
a unified resistance to any foreign aggression.
Everyone
heard Trump‘s announcement that he will destroy Iran's cultural heritage. This
is the very same man that labeled the Iranian people as terrorists. Immediately
after the announcement was made, the pro-U.S. and pro-Israeli Iranian
opposition, who had realized the extent of the criminality of the announcement,
started to rephrase it. They claimed that Trump did not even understand his
words and that he meant “religious sites“, and the "Qom seminary". To
say that Iranian centuries-old mosques are not part of Iran's cultural
heritage: how much a brain must be infected to think so! This outrageous claim
was declared by the Iranian mercenary opposition to deceive the public when all
press in the world criticized Trump's announcement and defended Iran's cultural
heritage and when UNESCO chief at the United Nations declared it criminal act
of war.
Not war, No sanction, No
military aggression
Our Party opposes the
destruction and disintegration of Iran and fights against the complicity of
Iranian mercenary opposition with imperialism and Zionism. Setting the account
with the capitalist regime of the Islamic Republic is the duty and the work of
the Iranian people. Opposing sanctions and war does not mean accepting
humiliation. The Iranian regime is said to be seeking talks with the United
States behind the scenes. This is a bourgeois principle of diplomacy in the
world and it is not a big problem here. What matters is what comes out of this
compromise. If the opposition to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the
pressure of Iran and the world on the United States lead to the implementation
of the nuclear deal, lifting of sanctions, and the return of Iran's illegally
seized assets, it would naturally be in the interest of Iranian people, but if
these negotiations take place for the purpose of killing time and violating
Iran's rights, it will be considered a treacherous act by the regime of the
Islamic Republic. Today, the U.S. imperialists and their allies have become increasingly isolated in
the world and in the region. If the United States of America does not give
concession in today's conditions, it will never give any concession, and the
risk of war will increase. The interest of our homeland is to retreat so long
as the gains listed above are achieved, and if not, all the interests of
imperialism in the region must be endangered.
What is to be done?
The first step towards a
political solution to the current impasse in our country is to form a popular,
revolutionary front. The formation of such fronts is only possible through
drawing a transparent demarcation between friends and enemies of the Iranian
people. In our view, this transparency separates the ranks of those who go hand
in hand with the imperialists from the forces loyal to the people. Any economic
sanction and military intervention should be condemned. Neoliberal economic
policies, corruption and embezzlement, and political repression should be
opposed. Any political change must be considered an internal task of the
Iranian people. The tie between the struggle for the democratic rights of
workers and toilers and for social justice and the struggle against imperialism
and its mercenaries defines the identity and character of such a revolutionary
and popular alternative.
There is no doubt that the
assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the danger of a foreign war has affected
the class struggle and has given the regime a break, but these effects are
short-lived. Deprived of their rights and faced with poverty, discrimination,
and repression, the masses will rise again. Foreign threats have always been
used by the authorities of the Islamic Republic to unite the people behind
their power. These threats justify the concentration of power in the hands of a
few authoritarians and transform society into a war-time society. In fact, the
threats by imperialists objectively serve the continuation of despotism in Iran
and reinforce the regime of Velayat-e Faqih (the rule of Supreme Leader).
The elimination of external
danger and lifting of illegal sanctions are in favor of the movement of workers
and toilers, and they provide the conditions for the advancement of the class
struggle.
Shooting Down of the passenger
aircraft
The warmongering, aggressive, tension-creating,
law-violating policies of U.S. imperialism have created an atmosphere of
insecurity around the world. No one anywhere in the world enjoys the legal
security and universal protection of the United Nations. Language of force and
bullying are the last word. A valid law in the world has become the Genghis
law: he who has more power has more right. This insecurity and tension was the
rule not only in the Iran-Iraqi airspace and when an Iranian official in Iraq
was assassinated or when a Ukrainian passenger aircraft in Iran was hit by
missiles.
In 2014, a Malaysian passenger aircraft also became a
victim of the NATO terrorist atmosphere in the conflict zone of Ukraine, an
atmosphere which was the product of clear aggression and interference by NATO
and the U.S. in Ukrainian internal affairs and the creation of a warlike
atmosphere.
The catastrophe of downing the Ukrainian aircraft in
Iran, which also killed many of our compatriots, is neither the first nor the
last in the tension-escalated climate that is the product of U.S. policy. The
American administration is directly responsible for these catastrophic events.
As far as the regime of Iran is concerned, the lack of transparency and lying
about the event has made many Iranians angry. These liars will never regain the
trust of the Iranian people. The People of Iran worry when they see that the
American, Canadian, and Australian intelligence agencies knew all the secrets
of the regime in this event even sooner than many high-ranking authorities. The
Iranian people have a right to fear such insecurity; they want to know whether
the regime is competent or only boastful when they claim to have the ability to
defend Iran's airspace against U.S. cruise missiles. The people have the right
to demand the resignation of the regime's incompetent Islamic officials. The
great Iranian nation is prepared to fight against U.S. aggression despite the
domestic repression it has been facing for 40 years. Imperialists are also
exploiting the chronic inadequacy and lies of the regime. As the repetition of
the Syrian experience, the British ambassador participates in a student protest
and President Trump sends a Farsi message to students telling them to count on
the support of the U.S. administration. It is unclear what mysterious hands
have informed the British ambassador so that he can participate in the
protest. Now we have to wait for the
work of imperialist hand-picked sharpshooter agents in Iran!
Our Party calls for the resignation of the incompetent
officials. We call for a public trial for these officials with the presence of
world-wide mass media. The high tension and insecure atmosphere created by
Trump administration that resulted in the tragedy of downing the Ukrainian
aircraft must be brought to light in the courtroom. Assassinations by the
imperialists and their lack of respect for human life must be exposed in a
public tribunal. We strongly condemn the U.S. intervention and Trump's speech
and the shameless presence of the British ambassador in anti-regime
demonstrations in Iran. These interventions damage the democratic struggles of
the Iranian people for freedom because they are hypocrisies and sow the seeds
of division and repression. The people of Iran, not President Trump or the
British ambassador, must seek justice and force the regime of the Islamic
Republic to respond to their demands. Imperialist conspiracies aimed to destroy
or disintegrate Iran must be exposed and discarded.
We support the revolutionary struggle of the Iranian
people against the capitalist rule of the Islamic Republic for the freedom,
democracy, social justice, and respect for the right of national sovereignty
and territorial integrity of Iran!
We demand that the liar and braggart Iranian
authorities be brought to an open trial, and the role of the U.S. imperialist
in breaking international law and creating hostilities be exposed!
We demand an end to the presence of imperialist forces
and to interference in the internal affairs of the countries in Middle East!
We say “No” to war, sanctions, and to all aggression
against the countries in the Middle East!
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