A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #167: THE LONG-LASTING STRUGGLE OF THE IRANIANS (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

It has been four months now since the women and men of Iran have engaged in the 
final battle with the country's Islamic government . The intensity of the 
struggle shows no sign of abating, despite the deaths at the hands of the police, 
of women and men, the hangings, the thousands of injured, women raped, tortured, 
arrests and administrative repression of demonstrators. ---- The mobilizations 
and street demonstrations, the acts of civil disobedience, instead of decreasing 
due to the effects of an increasingly brutal and murderous repression, 
intensified and became generalized throughout the territory. Not only that, but 
indignation prevails over the fear of repression every time the forty days of 
mourning for a death recall the violence suffered, triggering the escalation of 
repression in the face of popular demonstrations.
What is at stake is civil freedom for the country which at the same time has to 
face a very heavy economic crisis, a substantial deterioration in the standard of 
living of its population, the growth of ethnic discrimination among its 
population and also that of the various religious components of the country, 
governed by the most fundamentalist and radical wing of the Shiite clergy.
After forty years of regime the measure seems full.
Western states and societies blather about support and support for the people's 
movement, but in fact they do nothing but support the movement with some sporadic 
demonstrations by civil society and denounce the repression.
Iranian political emigration is left alone to be indignant, powerless.

The reasons for the lack of support

The reasons for the lack of support are complex and reside above all in the 
refusal to tackle the problem of the relationship with the Islamic world in a 
critical and organic way and therefore the Palestinian problem, the collateral 
problem of the Kurdish people, the problems of political management of the Sunni 
countries, also in relation to their relationship with those with a Shiite majority.
Posing the Palestinian people's problem of having its own land and a state entity 
that represents it means clashing with Israel and US interests in the Middle East 
and this, for internal US political reasons, is very difficult, also due to the 
economic implications and the geostrategic consequences. The recent Israeli 
crackdown on Palestine is proof of this all the more in light of Israel's attempt 
to use every international crisis, in this case the war in Ukraine, to widen the 
expropriation of land and the expulsion of Palestinians.
The impossibility even of tackling the Palestinian question is accompanied and 
complicated by the insensitivity towards the Kurdish people, used without 
restraint in the fight against Isis and then abandoned to the massacre by the 
Turks, again for geostrategic reasons. but mostly political. And this is because 
the creation of a political entity that includes all of Kurdistan would create a 
wedge in the Islamic world, both on a territorial level, subtracting territory 
and resources from Turkey, Iran and Iraq, from Syria, as well as imposing the 
redefinition of territorial borders as well as military balances in the strategic 
Middle Eastern area, would shake the balance of forces between Sunni and Shiite 
states to its very foundations.
What would be shocked would be both the role and the autocratic management of the 
Sunni Islamic countries, of their tribal autocracies, which live in alliance with 
the clergy, strong in oil revenues and gas extraction, which have become even 
more strategic in the context of international alignments after the Ukrainian war 
, organic allies of the United States,
destabilizing the entire Middle East area, especially since the Kurds are the 
bearers of a civil society project which has demonstrated its ability to 
effectively combat clericalism, its ability to promote women's emancipation and 
social rights, knowing how to free those populations from religious-based 
conflicts thanks to the construction of a new society based on secularism, gender 
equality, self-management.
Furthermore, what would happen in the Sunni world would certainly force even the 
countries with a Shiite majority to look at their own political and power 
structures, at the role of the clergy, at that of the confessional social 
structures which have a strategic function on the economy of those countries. A 
review of these ratios and balances would involve
too many interests, which results in support for the current regime and hinders 
change. Only the duration of the mobilization can help the success of the 
struggle movement.

The editorial staff

http://www.ucadi.org/2023/02/01/la-lotta-di-lunga-durata-degli-iraniani/
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