Iran accuses, then in trouble

Opinion

IT WAS expected that Iran would accuse Gulf countries, America and free countries of being responsible for recent attacks on the Revolutionary Guard in Ahwaz.

This has been the habit of the Iranian regime since 1979. It hurled accusations instead of admitting the reality produced by the coup carried out by Khomeini against the royal governance. The regime’s hobby is to challenge the entire world, using nonsensical slogans that have nothing to do with facts.

The people of Ahwaz have been living one of the worst human tragedies that no other minority had experienced. The suffering started with the Persian occupation of Ahwaz which was an Arabian country in 1927. Since then until the coming of the Mullah regime, the people of Ahwaz have been suffering as some have been targeting their Arabian identity. However, the crimes committed by the Mullah regime against the people of Ahwaz do not differ from those committed by the Nazis when they started their ethnic project.

At the beginning, decisions were taken to change the curriculum and ban the use of Arabic language. Ironically, the regime claims it is Islamic and Arabic is the language of the Holy Quran. This means that speaking Arabic helps in understanding Islam.

Second, the regime changed the course of rivers and water resources from Ahwaz to other areas where Persians are the majority.

Third, the regime deprived the inhabitants of Ahwaz of their share of the oil fortune, so there has been no development project there. The people — Sunnis or Shiites — have been left to face unemployment and starvation on their own.

Fourth, the regime put Ahwaz under nuclear threat when it chose the place for the implementation of its nuclear projects. The area did not get any benefit like electricity from the nuclear project which the regime claims to be for peaceful purposes.

Fifth, the Sunni minority in Ahwaz has been prevented from building mosques and practicing religious rituals just like the case in Baluchistan, Azadian and Kurdish areas. This is because the Iranian Constitution states that the 12th Shiite doctrine is the source of legislation. It also prevents Arabs or those of Arab origins from taking over senior positions.

By the way, we have to mention part of the tragedy of thinker Jalal Aldin Al-Farsi who was among the leaders of the Iranian revolution, but he was dismissed from the presidential elections many times just because his mother was of Arab origin. Strangely, the Ayatollahs must be of Arab origins, particularly from the children of Imam Al-Hussein, in order to meet the conditions stated in the Constitution to rise to power in Iran.

This ethnic discrimination intensified the hatred of the people in Ahwaz. For more than 91 years, many uprisings have been conducted by the people of Ahwaz but they never reached the level of armed confrontation as it happened in the recent military show. This means the people are already fed up, to the extent that they cannot step back.

Iran consists of a number of ethnicities like Azadis, Kurdish, Baluchis and Arabs. All of them have been suffering since 1979. They have been suffering from cultural, social and political repression.

With the worsening daily life crises which resulted from sanctions imposed on the regime due to its terrorist activities included in the slogans it raised concerning the export of revolution and the nuclear weapons race that badly affected the lives of 80 million citizens, the popular revolution is getting closer than before.

Division will be the ultimate result of such a revolution according to the study on similar conditions in Yugoslavia and Soviet Union.

The example of Rwanda is not so far away due to the suffering that the Iranian people have experienced under the rule of this regime.

Thus, upon reading the statements issued by the regime about the recent operation and the accusation hurled at Gulf countries, we can easily notice the contradictions which reflect confusion and lack of courage to admit that it no longer controls the Iranian street, because injustice and repression have reached unprecedented levels.