{"id":266718,"date":"2022-11-15T16:56:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=266718"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:54:32","slug":"support-irans-uprising-and-end-the-silence-that-reinforces-the-regimes-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/support-irans-uprising-and-end-the-silence-that-reinforces-the-regimes-impunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Iran\u2019s Uprising and End the Silence that Reinforces the Regime\u2019s Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now that the Iranian people\u2019s national uprising has been going on for nearly two whole months<\/a>, it is long past time for the international community to recognize the real possibility of regime change and to begin acting accordingly. Western leaders have offered verbal encouragement to the protesters. But those statements have generally fallen short of appropriately endorsing the people\u2019s movement for regime change or acknowledging their rights of self-defense in the face of escalating state repression.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, Western powers and international bodies have denounced that repression, but they have yet to enact a strategy that actually aims to stop it or to hold its perpetrators accountable. Yet there is much they can do for the sake of those goals, and most of these actions would also help the Iranian people to achieve their own aims without rising to the level of direct foreign intervention in Iranian affairs.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Iranian authorities have killed approximately 550 protesters so far, while 30,000 have been arrested. Around 1,000 indictments have been announced just in Tehran over the past two weeks, some of them being for political charges like \u201cenmity against God,\u201d which carry the death penalty. The people have valiantly resisted<\/a> all attempts at repression, often confronting heavily armed security forces while wielding only rocks. But in the absence of serious pressure from the outside world, that resistance can only do so much.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Crackdowns will inevitably continue either until the regime collapses once and for all or until the mullahs are made to believe that they put themselves at greater risk by carrying on than by holding back. They\u2019re not likely to draw that conclusion anytime soon, but if they ever do so, it will be because they are facing dual pressures from the domestic population and the outside world.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Iranian people have been doing their part to create that situation ever since the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Tehran\u2019s \u201cmorality police.\u201d At every turn, they have made it clear that nothing will force them back into compliance with the status quo. Security forces remain preoccupied with demonstrations in upwards of 200 cities which repeat calls for \u201cdeath to the dictator\u201d and declare that the regime will fall in \u201cthis bloody year.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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