The left party of Iran (People’s Fadaian) considers the arrest, imprisonment and banning of the country's filmmakers and the attack on the protesting sports figures as a sign of fear of the spread of the people's movement against the regime and a struggle to exercise control over a society that has moved from within and from the depths and has shaken the pillars of religious tyranny with the power of its action. It is the power of the people's civil movements that has made the regime powerless. The mass ban of Filmmakers and the attack on Ali Karimi and others by gangs affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards and even Khamenei himself reflects their fear of the progress of the people's struggle against the dominated situation in the country and their struggle to overcome this corrupt and oppressive system.
Political-Executive Board of the Left Party of Iran (People’s Fadaian)
As the people's protest movements become more widespread and solidarity with the protesters of the regime's policies increases, the regime's struggle to suppress these movements and create fear among the supporters of the people's rights and freedoms also becomes more intense and more insane.
The Minister of Ershad (Guidance) of the Islamic Republic has announced that he will publish a list of those banned this week, and he means banning the signatories of the filmmakers' statement protesting the suppression of protesting people in Khuzestan after the collapse of the Metropol complex, and addressing the suppression forces with the title "Put down your gun." 170 cinema people signed it and asked the armed forces not to kill people and not to carry out the orders of their commanders.
In another action, after Ali Karimi, the famous football player of our country, protested and tweeted, "We spend billions of Tomans to give a votive, and at the end wish for healing of the patients who die because they don't have money for treatment" was attacked by mobs and regime agents, media affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards and Khamenei himself, threatened and attacked in the most bawdy way, and finally the Tehran Municipality announced his banning and all advertising billboards with his image were collected from the city. The encounter with another famous football player of the country, Voria Ghafouri, also took place after publicly supporting the people's protests. Opposing the regime has not only become public but confronting its policies and corruption at the level of the society's elites has also become a daily routine.
In the Islamic Republic, elimination of critics and opponents and killing of prisoners was and is a common practice. But what is most evident these days is arresting, threatening, and banning well-known artistic, sports and cultural figures who recently, have risen to protest against silencing the voices of protest against the oppression of the people and the looting of public property by the corrupt administrators of the regime, in the name of religion and religious rituals.
In reaction to the preparation of the list of banned artists, Rakhshan Banietamad, one of the prominent filmmakers of our country, wrote: "An artist who ignores the conditions of society is not an artist. An artist is not a mercenary or a subject of the heads of the barracks who bows his head to command. Banning cinema and theater artists, announced and unannounced, is to intimidate all people of culture and art to turn a blind eye to the surrounding events. Taking the indisputable right to work and expression as a pledge in exchange for silence and inaction against the pressure, hardship and suffering imposed on the people in this era is not the custom of statesmanship!"
In the days when the repression apparatus of the regime declares the protest against the mandatory hijab as "collusion against the Islamic Republic, contact with the outside and the spread of corruption and prostitution", Sepideh Reshnou, a cultural activist, is being tortured and a case has shamelessly been filed against her for protesting the interference of one of the regime's thugs in her privacy. Leftist students like Leila Hosseinzadeh are arrested and imprisoned for the umpteenth time, and dozens of labor activists, members of the country's teachers' union, workers' rights defenders like Sepideh Qolian are still imprisoned on false charges and wherever there is a protest, the regime’s gunmen and thugs are sent there to kill people. The presence of well-known figures of the country in the position of defending the rights and freedoms of the people and their civil development is the need of social movements and in the service of strengthening the civil struggles against the regime autocracy and tyranny.
The aim of the attack of the Islamic Republic against the prominent artistic, cultural and sports figures of the country is a struggle to break their courage and boldness in defending the rights of the citizens in protest and opposition against the regime. These figures, from Mohammad Rasoolof, Jafar Panahi to Ali Karimi and Voria Ghafouri, are bastion of resistance against the onslaught of the ruling tyranny and a support in the civil struggles of the people against the Islamic Republic.
The left party of Iran (People’s Fadaian) considers the arrest, imprisonment and banning of the country's filmmakers and the attack on the protesting sports figures as a sign of fear of the spread of the people's movement against the regime and a struggle to exercise control over a society that has moved from within and from the depths and has shaken the pillars of religious tyranny with the power of its action. It is the power of the people's civil movements that has made the regime powerless. The mass ban of Filmmakers and the attack on Ali Karimi and others by gangs affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards and even Khamenei himself reflects their fear of the progress of the people's struggle against the dominated situation in the country and their struggle to overcome this corrupt and oppressive system.
Political-Executive Board of the Left Party of Iran (People’s Fadaian)
August 20, 2022
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