Expansion of ‘No to Islamic Republic’ Campaign and Support from Various Organizations, Parties, and Institutions

Several political and civil organizations, cultural and research institutions, Iranian media outlets and publishers, in support of the ‘No to Islamic Republic’ campaign, called for greater coverage of this campaign and announced that ‘the cry of no to the Islamic Republic has resonated throughout Iran.’

More than 115 political and civil organizations and parties, cultural and research institutions, media outlets and publishers, in support of at least one thousand five hundred political and civil activists, artists and athletes, writers and university professors, and Iranian citizens who have joined the ‘No to Islamic Republic’ campaign, issued a statement declaring: ‘The expansion of the No to Islamic Republic campaign, in connection with other political and civil movements, is a promising sign of greater alignment and convergence of the Iranian people’s freedom-loving and justice-seeking struggles for liberation from the Islamic Republic.’

Abdolreza Ahmadi, a member of Iran’s Liberal Students and Alumni and a supporter of the ‘No to Islamic Republic’ campaign, referring to the fact that this campaign is intended to be a loud voice of the ideas that today represent the main desire of Iranian society and the concept of ‘overthrow,’ told Voice of America: ‘If this demand existed yesterday in the mind of every Iranian, today it is being shouted as a voice in the public sphere, and what this letter does is actually a reflection of this voice.’

Continuing, while also referring to the success of this campaign, he added: ‘No to the Islamic Republic has become a string that connects all thoughts with any tendency to each other… This diversity and this plurality that exists among all people confirms this.’

Among the supporters of this statement are the names of organizations and parties such as the Iran Constitutional Party (Liberal Democrats), the Transitional Management Council, the Secular Democratic Party of Iranians, the Farshgard Network, the United Student Front, Solidarity for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran, the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI), the Middle East Women’s Organization, the Iran and Arab Research Center, the Balochestan Studies Center, and many others.

With the launch of the ‘No to Islamic Republic’ campaign, prominent artistic and political figures and a large number of Iranian citizens inside and outside Iran, by joining this campaign, have called for a change of government in Iran.

Voice of America in its previous reports covered the participation of prominent figures in this campaign. The campaign initially began in the first days of the year 1400 in the solar calendar with the publication of a statement by hundreds of Iranian activists and artists, including Prince Reza Pahlavi, Shahin Najafi, an artist and researcher of philosophy of art, and Shahla Entesari, a political activist.

Dozens of political activists inside Iran also, only a few days after the launch of this campaign, by issuing another letter to the United Nations, called the Islamic Republic government a ‘kleptocracy’ and called for international support for the Iranian people for a transition to a new government through a referendum.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has faced widespread protests in the last two years. However, according to Reuters and other human rights organizations, these protests have been violently suppressed.

The United States of America has repeatedly and in various instances condemned the violent actions and widespread suppression of protesters and civil activists, as well as the repeated and continued violations of the rights of Iranian citizens, by the Islamic Republic.

Source: Voice of America