{"id":3385,"date":"2019-12-12T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2019-12-15T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:20:30","slug":"solidarity-with-the-people-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/solidarity-with-the-people-of-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity with the people of Iran!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The massive\nstruggles by the Iranian people for peace, human and democratic rights and social justice has the full solidarity\nof the Communist Party of Canada; at the same time, we also call for an end to\nU.S. imperialist sanctions and war threats which only punish working people,\nnot the leaders of the repressive regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

During November, demonstrations\nin 100 cities across 23 out of Iran’s 31 provinces drew hundreds of thousands\nof people, after the government’s decision to remove subsidies on fuel prices\nresulted in increases of up to 300%, at a  time when US sanctions have led to massive\ninflation and unemployment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nSupreme religious leader Ali Khamenei issued instructions to crush the protest\nmovement, security forces arrested 1000 peaceful protesters on November 16\nalone. Verified reports said that at least 143 protesters in 21 cities were\nkilled in the first few days of the crackdown. The real death toll is now estimated\nin the hundreds, including people shot in the head or the upper torso by\nsecurity forces. Over 3700 people have been reported injured, more than 7000 arrested,\nand hundreds more are missing. The\ngovernment shut down Iran\u2019s entire internet system for over a week, and phone\nlines have been actively monitored by the security agencies. Iranian\nofficials have warned that anyone trying to circumvent the internet ban by\nusing other means to send information about the protests would be arrested and\ncharged with treason, which carries the death penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All progressive and left forces in\nIran, including our comrades in the Tudeh Party, have supported the popular\ndemonstrations and the legitimate demands of the people for change. We stand\nin solidarity with their brave struggle against the repressive measures adopted\nby the authorities, and we demand the immediate release of all prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we join with others to protest\nthe violence against peaceful demonstrations, we also warn against any calls\nfor imperialist “humanitarian intervention”. The stage for the latest\nevents was set by Donald Trump\u2019s decision to tear up the Joint Comprehensive\nPlan of Action, adopted by Iran and the P5+1 (US, UK, France, Russia, China +\nGermany) together with the European Union, and to instead unilaterally impose\nUS sanctions which intensified Iran’s economic problems. Scrapping the Iran\nNuclear Deal had the effect of further isolating Iran and strengthening its security\nforces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this critical moment, support for U.S. interference in any form means backing imperialist plans to impose U.S. domination of Iran through a new version of the brutal Shah regime. As we have seen in other countries, U.S. military involvement does not bring peace and stability, but it does have the potential to spark a wider war in the Middle East, and even poses the danger of a catastrophic nuclear conflict. Genuine international solidarity means standing together with the popular movements of the Iranian people in their fight for peace, human rights, democracy and social justice; the people of Iran will win their freedom through their own heroic efforts. The Communist Party of Canada will continue to provide such solidarity as the struggle continues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The massive struggles by the Iranian people for peace, human and democratic rights and social justice has the full solidarity of the Communist Party of Canada; at the same time, we also call for an end to U.S. imperialist sanctions and war threats which only punish working people, not the leaders of the repressive regime.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-solidarity","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}