The people and the regime in Iran

On 11th June 2011, an intensive conference with a dynamic exchange between the audience and the speakers took place in Hamburg. The Association for Human Rights and Democracy and the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights in Iran invited distinguished speakers.

The conference with the title "The people and the regime in Iran" started with a minute of silence for Haleh Sahabi and all victims of the regime in Iran. The Kulturladen in St Georg was full and there were not only exiled Iranians in the room. It is encouraging to see that despite many international crises people in the West are interested in the situation of the Iranian population and the nature of the system. The organizers of the conference in fact wanted to give an impression of daily life, the goals and nature of the regime, the consequences for the world and the possibilities of the permanent crisis in Iran to those present.

The author and poet Barbara Naziri of Hamburg opened the conference with a report from a trip to Iran in April 2011. The report entitled "Freedom is a bird" gave a differentiated view of the complex and colourful society in Iran and the repressive forces of the system. The complete text of “Freiheit ist ein Vogel” can be found on www.mehriran.de

The key questions of the following contributions were: What are the reasons for the present socio-political situation in Iran? What do the Iranian people wish for? To answer these questions, the sociologist Prof. Dawood Gholamasad from Hannover clarified his point of view of some characteristical elements of the system.

His statements can be summarized in these five points:

1.

It is not possible to reform the system of the IRI
2.

The image of a human in the ideology of the IRI regime is the image of the eternal immature
3.

The population must function in the service of a "holy" order
4.

The "Green Movement" is a complex democratic movement that leads to the emancipation of the citizens
5.

Some spokesmen for the "Green Movement" tend to harmonizing instead of informing and by doing so deviate from the institutional crisis

(„Die Islamische Republik Iran - eine strukturelle Quadratur des Kreises“ – www.mehriran.de )

Dr. Mostafa Azmayesh from Paris, a religious scholar and a leading member of the International Organization to Preserve Human Rights in Iran (IOPHRI), warned against certain protagonists to set about the "Green Movement" in favour and in the frame of the existing system of Velayat-e-faghi (the Supreme Leader, who in today’s Iran is Ali Khamenei).

In his contribution “The citizens want the end of Velayat-e-faghi”, he talks about the demand of the population for a general referendum on the future system in Iran.

Source: Inside of Iran