Campaign Iran has issued the following statement on the ongoing crisis in Iran.
Campaign Iran is an organisation which works solely with the aim of halting the threat of war and the continuing sanctions on Iran. Therefore, we clearly do not express an opinion on individual candidates within the Iranian election, nor any particular preference.
However, as an activist based campaign we always support the right of protest and condemn the repression of any demonstrations in Iran from the state. We support democracy and human rights in Iran and believe that the current movement which has taken to the streets vindicates our position that the Iranian people, and only the Iranian people, have the ability and the right to
make change in Iran as they best see fit. It is clear that the democracy movement can fight its own battles and we support their struggle.
Read the full article HERE
A deeper analysis from Counterfire is HERE
There are a couple of main points we must pay attention to:
- we must throw our full support behind those who have taken to the streets in Iran against their rulers
- At the same time we must also highlight the hypocrisy of our own governments and media organisations
- we must warn against the dangers of imperialist powers abusing the situation by continuing to our campaign against the existing suffocating sanctions and any catastrophic plans for war. That way, we allow the Iranian democracy movement to continue without foreign intervention or interference
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