Around the anniversary of Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel and the bombing of Gaza under the orders of Netanyahu's government in the past year—which many human rights advocates and experts describe as a clear act of genocide—the assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, the Israeli army's attack on southern Lebanon, and missile strikes by the Islamic Republic of Iran on Israel have significantly heightened the risk of war escalation. Iran itself could become a major battleground in the conflict.
The warmongering and adventurism of the fundamentalists ruling Iran and their regional allies aiming for the destruction of Israel, alongside the claims of Israeli fundamentalists to impose a "new order" in the Middle East, are merely invitations to more conflict, slaughter, and destruction in the region. Neither the missile strikes by the Islamic Republic nor the military attacks by groups known as the "Axis of Resistance" on Israel help the Palestinian people, nor do Israeli bombs bring peace, democracy, and freedom to Gaza, Lebanon, or Iran.
The Islamic Republic and its fundamentalist allies have held the demands of the Palestinian people hostage, through their proxy wars in the region. At the same time, the Netanyahu government spreads war across the Middle East through killings in Gaza and Lebanon under the pretext of a "new order." Supporting any side of this inhumane war is a betrayal of the people. It harms the lives of individuals and the goals of peace, democracy, welfare, security, and peaceful coexistence in the region. Both sides of this gruelling, anti-human conflict are exacerbating tensions and expanding the war, leading only to death and destruction, displacement, intensified repression and suffocation, the rise of extremism, and insecurity.
Despite our diverse perspectives, we the signatories of this statement as a third voice, oppose the warmongering and aggression of both sides of this conflict. We call on the United Nations, its member states, human rights organizations, and peace and democracy supporters in Iran, Israel, the region, and the world to increase pressure on all sides involved in the conflict, work toward an immediate ceasefire, prevent the war from spreading to new fronts, and stop the war.
End the madness of offering the death!
Defending peace is defending freedom and human dignity.
Signatories:
(Names published in the first round)
1. Yervand Abrahamian
2. Touraj Atabaki
3. Parvin Ardalan
4. Fereshteh Ahmadi
5. Mohammad Azami
6. Reza Akrami
7. Asghar Izadi
8. Monireh Baradaran
9. Mehrzad Boroujerdi
10. Farzaneh Bazarpour
11. Behrouz Bayat
12. Kourosh Parsa
13. Ali Poursan
14. Ali Pour Naqhavi
15. Mehdi Khanbabatehrani
16. NayerehTohidi
17. Fardous Jamshidi Roudbari
18. Roza Roozbehan
19. Mihan Roosta
20. Hadi Zamani
21. Sholeh Zamini
22. Fatemeh Haghighatjou
23. Naqhi Hamidian
24. Behrouz Khaligh
25. Hadi Khorsandi
26. Mansoureh Khosroshahi
27. Reza Khandan
28. Atena Daemi
29. Mehrdad Darvishpour
30. Maryam Satwat
31. Arash Sarkouhi
32. Faraj Sarkouhi
33. Akbar Saif
34. Mansoureh Shojaei
35. Negin Shir Aghaei
36. Mehrdad Samadzadeh
37. Ashkbous Talebi
38. Mohammad Reza Alee Payam
39. Shirin Ebadi
40. Majid Abdolrahimpour
41. Farzaneh Azimi
42. Reza Allamehzadeh
43. Kazem Alamdary
44. Reza Alijani
45. Jalal Alavi Nia
46. Parastoo Forouhar
46. Mehdi Fatapour
48. Mansour Farhang
49. Masoud Fathi
50. Farhang Ghasemi
51. Kamran Ghaem Maqham
52. Mohsen Ghaem Maqham
53. Shahram Ghanbari
54. Mehrangiz Kar
55. Kazem Kardovani
56. Behzad Karimi
57. Azadeh Kian
58. Amir Kianpour
59. Mahdieh Golroo
60. Jahangir Gholzar
61. Reza Goharzad
62. Mazdak Limakeshi
63. Mohammad Reza Nikfar
64. Majid Nafisi
65. Hassan Nayeb Hashem
66. Parviz Navidi
67. Iraj Nayeri
68. Mahnaz Matin
69. Mehran Mostafavi
70. Parvin Malek
71. Nasser Mohajer
72. Ali Akbar Mehdi
73. Homayoun Mohammadi
74. Touran Hameti
75. Mehrdad Wahabi
76. Elahe Amir Entezem
77. Hamid Asefi
78. Saeed Payvandi
79. Taqhi Rahmani
80. Mehrangiz Kar
81. Amir Mossadegh Katouzian
82. Hossein Dowlat Abadi
83. Mihan Jazani
84. Ata Houdashtian
85. Ali Reza Mojallel
86. Masoud Noghrehkar
89. Taqhi Mokhtar
90. Sarvar Kasmaei
91. Shahram Homayoun
92. Mehdi Ebrahimzadeh
93. Hassan Etemadi
94. Parisa Azami
95. Frida Afari
96. Farid Ashkan
97. Mansour Akbari
98. Wahab Ansari
99. Hossein Anvar Haqhiqhi
100. Mandana Irani
101. Maryam Ahari
102. Fereydoun Babaei Khamene
103. Amir Boreshi
104. Khosrow Bandari
105. Noora Bayani
106. Amir Hossein Behboudi
107. Misaqh Parsa
108. Ahmad Poormandi
109. Ehsan Dehkordi
110. Hootan Dowlati
111. Kazem Rostami
112. Hassan Zehtab
113. Ismail Zargarian
114. Hassan Jafari
115. Nahid Hosseini
116. Sima Khaleghi
117. Amir Khadir
118. Babak Khati
119. Jamshid Khunjoosh
120. Morteza Davar
121. Ali Sarkouhi
122. Masoud Safarinasab
123. Masoud Shabafrouz
124. Soheila Shaghafi
125. Elahe Shokraei
126. Fatemeh Shams
127. Asghar Shirazi
128. Hamid Shirazi
129. Kiumars Sabeghi
130. Ismail Safarzadeh
131. M.H. Sediqh Yazdchi
132. Ali Samad
133. Javad Abasi Tavaloli
134. Siavash Abghari
135. Nader osareh
136. Hezhir Attari
137. Arash Azizi
138. Morteza Aghili
139. Davood Gholam Azad
140. Fahimeh Farsai
141. Siavash Faraji
142. Nahid Ghajar
143. Yadi Ghorbani
144. Reza Ghorashi
145. Reza Karimi
146. Hassan Kalantari
147. Manoochehr Golshan
148. Soheylah Golshahi
149. Hassan Golshahi
150. Barbod Golshiri
151. Ahmad Nejati
152. Mahshid Najafi
153. Helen Nosrat
154. Amir Niloo
155. Mohsen Nejhad
156. Davood Navaiyan
157. Effat Mahbaz
158. Sirous Madadi
159. Parviz Mokhtari
160. Pourya Motahari
161. Parvin Malek
162. Mohammad Montazeri
163. Hossein Montazer Haqhiqhi
164. Jiran Moghadam
165. Rasul Memar
166. Ahmad Mashouf
167. Nima Mashouf
168. Abbas Firouz Bakhsh
169. Mahmoud Mehran Adib
170. Fariborz Mehran Adib
171. Akbar Mousavi Khoeini
172. Anvar Mir Satari
173. Maliheh Minu Kherad
174. Mehrnoush Seyed Maki
175. Shahin Honarvash
176. Jahan Valiyan Bepour
177. Masoud Vaseghi
178. Mehdi Parviz
179. Jafar Sedigh
180. Shapour Bahrami
181. Nasser Jamali
182. Davood Parsian
183. Mitra Safaari
184. Bahram Abassi
185. Saeed Fattahi
186. Maqhsoud Falahi
187. Kourosh Afsati
188. Taraneh Roosta
189. Ghamar Nikzad
190. Saba Shahcheraghi
191. Omid Amiri Aleenia
192. Aman Khashi
193. Saeed Yavari
194. Arman Mobaraki
195. Daryadel Tavana
196. Sima Anzali
197. Farshin Kazemi Nia
198. Rouhi Shirvani Pour
199. Masoud Sadr
200. Houri Fooladpour
201. Saber Mehdizadeh
202. Fariba Shahrvan
203. Mitra Pouyandeh
204. Khosrow Heydarian
205. Soheila Anzali
206. Iraj Fereydounfar
207. Parichehr Taheri
208. Niloufar Taheri
209. Tareh Noori
210. Ali Mohammad Barnooshian
211. Sahand Afshara
212. Mahin Khadir
213. Afsaneh Paul
214. Ehsan Hakimi
215. Taqhi Tavakoli
216. Yahya Salari
217. Maryam Ashrafi
218. Hanri Nahrini
219. Ghodsi Ahmadi
220. Behrouz Boroumand
221. Saeed Reza Tehrani
222. Habib Bahreman
223. Flora Shafighi
224. Fardous Tajdini
225. Marzieh Khosroshahi
226. Zaka Khosroshahi
227. Hamid Hematpour
228. Abbas Firouz Bakhsh
229. Fatemeh Rezaei
230. Youssef Mohammadi
231. Masoud Mirmalek Sani
232. Parvaneh Albooye
233. Mansour Ansari
234. Mohammad Pezeshki
235. Kianoush Khaksar
236. Mohammad Pourdavani
237. Mahmoud Abdi
238. Amir Hooshang Ghayi
239. Pourang Khademi
240. Saeed Kazemi
241. Mansour Soleimani
242. Gorji Marzban
243. Maryam Noori
244. Sima Sahebi
245. Ali Karimzadeh
246. Siamak Allamehzadeh
247. Arash Azarakhsh
248. Youssef Jahedi
249. Mashal Ghodsi
250. Mohammad Pourfar
251. Amir Hooshmand Momtaz
252. Reza Afshari
253. Hooshang Nikouei Nejad
254. Shahla Alemi
255. Ardovan Ershad
256. Davood Ahmadloo
257. Abbas Baheri Kia
258. Mazdak Allahyari
259. Asghar Rastgar
260. Farzaneh Mahdavi
261. Shamsi Fattahi
262. Yasaman Rajabkhah
263. Binazir Masoudi
264. Lida Darafshe
265. Bijan Moajeri
266. Bahram Mohammadi
267. Mansour Zand
268. Bahram Emami
269. Masoud Orang
270. Saif Ahadi
271. Kamran Parsayi
272. Shahnaz Shirdelian
273. Mohammad Soleimani
274. Bahram Roosta
275. Behrouz Khosravi
276. Ashraf Mirhashemi
277. Youssef Mohammadi
278. Ali Ghane
279. Saeed Hormozi
280. Behrouz Ahmadi
281. Zahra Pourhamrang
282. Fatemeh Sonbol
283. Malihe Hayati
284. Parvin Shahbazi
285. Mahmoud Alizadeh Lesani
286. Ayaz Asi
287. Mohammad Hossein Shamsaee
288. Mohammad Abotalebi
289. Fereydoun Sarami
290. Forouza Pourki
291. Nasser Ashjari
292. Morteza Niki
293. Haideh Dahaee
294. Mohammad Torabi
295. Firoozeh Khatibi
296. Mohsen Safarollahi
297. Shaghayegh Sadeghi Goudarzi
298. Arsen Nazarian
299. Emad Amouzad
300. Ali Malek
301. Enayat Moodati
302. Atesa Madahiyan
303. Behzad Abasi
304. Shahin Heydari
305. Shohre Daroudi
306. Ahmad Bagheri
307. Goudarz Eqhtedari
308. Esmail Khatayi
309. Aj. Ghebarei
310. Kaveh Eghtesadi
311. Hamoon Hirmandzad
312. Kourosh Sehati
313. Saif Ehdayi
314. Leila Saifollahi
315. Parviz Dadkhah Tehrani
316. Shirin Nasiri Pour
317. Ali Seyedi
318. Hossein Nedavash
319. Mokhtab Sadat Elmi
320. Narges Jahan
321. Behyar Ghahremani
322. Soraya Nadim Pour
323. Samaldin Ziyaei
324. Hossein Daftar
325. Zhinous Tavakoli
326. Mohammad Sadegh Ali Asghari
327. M.H. Sedigh Yazdchi
328. Abbas Firouz Bakhsh
329. Iran Moghadam
330. Nahid Azami
331. Omid Badkoobeie
332. Mehdi Habili
333. Reza Gholipour
334. Sima Moayed
335. Masoud Moghadam
336. Salim Shahbazi
337. Hossein Vesal
338. Homayoun Alizadeh
339. Bijan Pirzadeh
340. Manijeh Shokohi
341. Esfandiar Karimi
342. Dampen Ali Mohammadi
343. Mona Emami
344. Hadi Aghazari
345. Amir Sasan Sharafi
346. Hadi Yousefi
347. Kourosh Kian
348. Sara Amini
349. Saeed Aminzadeh
350. Asu Sefidi
351. Asghar Khorsand
352. Farangis Esmaili
353. Shokrollah Ahmadi
354. Mohammad Reza Shafizadeh
355. Manoochehr Javanmard
356. Badri Sadraei
357. Behrouz Azad
358. Samad Kouchi Baghli
359. Zahra Rahimi Khamene
360. Hassan Arabzadeh Hejazi
361. Farideh Yazdi
362. Mehrnous Seyed Maki
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