On this day of
the sad 41st anniversary of the terrorist and corrupt regime of the Islamic
Republic of Iran, we would like to bring to your attention a strong and
historical message from our suffering compatriots in Iran, who extend a hand of
friendship to the people of the United States of America.
While the
Islamic Republic is after hostility and confrontation with the United States
and the Free World, the Iranian people desire, more than ever, peace and
friendship with the same.
We believe that
our homeland, Iran and the United States have strong common strategic
interests. As the Iranian people are not allowed to freely choose their
government, our countries have not even had diplomatic relationship in the past
40 years. Indeed, the leaders of the theocratic regime do not work for the
Iranian national interest. Their main objective is to export their fanatical
ideology to the entire region and beyond. To achieve their goal, this regime
needs to be the enemy of the United States, Israel, and all democracies across
the world.
However, more and
more, the Iranian people are demonstrating their determination to be part of
the free world and be respectful of democratic values. This desire for freedom
is best exemplified by the daily struggles of Iranian women, workers, students,
and religious minorities who engage in peaceful civil disobedience and protests
while facing mass murder, imprisonments, and torture by regime’s thugs and
security apparatus.
Mr. President, we would
like to warmly thank you for the unprecedent support to the Iranian people that
you and your administration provide. From
our perspective, the best policy to bring back peace and stability in the
Middle-East is to support the Iranians’ national self-determination for a democratic
government. The solution is neither war, nor maintaining the status quo. As you
have so rightly said, the Iranian people are what the regime fears the most.
Therefore, we
respectfully request your support for the will of the Iranian people to be able
to choose their destiny through free, fair and transparent elections in
accordance with article 21 of the Declaration of Human Rights.
Thank you for your
attention to this important matter.
I was only six years old when political Islamists
formally established Khomeini’s official state in Iran.
Every morning before going to school, I used to see
the Cyrus the Great Cylinder on the table that reminded me of respect and
tolerance of others. However, at school
before classes started, we had to chant “Death to U.S.A.” and “Death to Israel”
and we had to cross the Israeli and the American flags to get into our classrooms.
At the end of the day, as all media were under the
control of the regime, our only contact with the outside world was the one-way
radio programs. At night, my father would catch up with the Persian program of
Israel’s radio so we could hear the real news.
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of
Iran (IRI) in 1979, the destruction of Israel has been one of the foundations
of the regime’s ideology. An official anti-Semitic state with the slogan of
eliminating the Israel from the world map which became an official state
policy.
On May 09, 1979, the most
well-known leader of the Jewish community Habib Elghanian, was falsely accused
of Zionist espionage and executed.
The same year, al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) was
invented as a result of Khomeini’s anti-Semitic propaganda as he declared the
confrontation with Israel a “religious duty.” Al-Quds Day is the annual anti-Zionist day.
Islamic Republic commemorates this day by organizing marches and expressions of
hatred towards Jews and the state of Israel. Accordingly,
every year on the last Friday of Ramadan, al-Quds Day commemorates with mass
parades led by the regime to emphasize hatred of the State of Israel and
to publicize the regime’s intention of destroying the State of Israel.
Jews along with other official religions (Christian, BahaÏ,
Sunnis and Zoroastrian) are treated as second-class citizens and subjected to
humiliation. The Islamic Constitution has restricted their religious freedom.
They need permission from, and are controlled by, the regime for performing
their religious ceremonies.
The value of their lives is set at one-half of that of
a Muslim. In case of non-Muslim women, the value reaches one quarter of the
life of a Muslim. They are barred from many government and military positions.
The anti-Semitic propaganda of
the Islamic Republic is getting more and more fierce. It has come to the point
that the word “Jew” has become synonymous with humiliation.
The Ministry of Guidance and
Culture, whose blade of censorship is sharp, not only permits publication of books and production
of films of this kind, but also sometimes invests for their production. As an
example, the film “Anti-Semitism” (l’Antisémite) was
produced by cooperation of the Islamic Republic and a French company. The
author and director of the film is “Dieudonné” who had previously made
“Mahmoud.” Mahmoud is a play based on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
anti-Semitic remarks. The film Anti-Semitism, according to Mohsen Ali
Akbari, was made with the invitation of Iran’s Deputy Director of Cinema and
cooperation of French Laplum Company. Ali Akbari says of the film that Anti-Semitism
is “a comedy that mocks Jewish Thought.” Further, the film mocks the Auschwitz
camp. Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson plays himself in the film.
Many media outlets in Iran have
been trained to spread lies and insults against Jews. From insulting beliefs to
accusations of incest with their daughters or spread of corruption for the control
of the world.
Indeed, the Islamic Revolution aroused fears among
Iranian Jews such that nearly two-thirds of the community, despite having a 2700-year
background, were forced to leave their homeland because of discrimination,
restrictions, and negative propaganda.
However, wherever they went,
Iranian Jews kept Iranian culture alive, and are one of the prides of Iran from
Tel Aviv to the US vis a vis the Islamic Republic.
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Like Nazism, we must fight
Khomeinism seriously. They formed many militias under the command of Qasem
Soleimani in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon to get closer to Israel by
occupying the region. Their main objective has been the export of the
totalitarian ideology to the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. Soleimani
became the great craftsman of the Al-Quds force. For him, human life had no
value. His only desire was to extend the
ideological and military influence of the regime and ultimately to “wipe Israel
off the map.”
Now that the terrorist Soleimani
has been killed, Europe must stand with the Iranian people against the Islamic
Republic. Europe, along with the current United States
Administration, must join us in fighting terrorism and anti-Semitism.
The Islamic Republic must not be allowed
to obtain nuclear weapon because, otherwise it will increase the possibility
of a human catastrophe. Maximum pressure
campaign must continue from all sides.
Today, Iranian people, with the
hope of achieving peace and friendship with other nations, are fighting the
Islamic Republic’s ideology. Thousands
of human rights and political activists have been imprisoned and tortured
because they have struggled against this theocratic kleptocracy and anti-Semetic
regime. They refuse to walk on the flag of Israel, and they
reject the anti-Semitic slogans from Islamic Regime.
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In memory of “Tehran Children,” a group of Polish Jewish
children mainly orphans or separated from their parents who escaped the Nazi-Germany occupation of Poland. This group of children were later evacuated with several hundred adults to
Tehran, after summer of 1942.
Once the children were gathered in Tehran, the camp, which rapidly became known as the “Tehran
Home for Jewish Children,” received assistance from the local Jewish community and most of them recovered their health in the Tehran camp.
In 1943, the children with their adult escorts,
crossed from Persian Gulf to the Sinai Desert by train, and arrived at the Atlit
refugee camp where the Yishuv welcomed them.
Thirty-five of the “Tehran Children” died either as
civilians or as soldiers in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948-1949.
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A large number of people in Iran
strongly believe that Israel and Iran will be strong allies in the future after
the fall of the Islamic Republic and establishment of secular democracy in Iran
because of their cultural and historical commonalities and for the sake of
peace and stability in the Middle East. We
hope to see Israel’s Embassy in Tehran and Iran’s Embassy in Jerusalem very
soon.
I hope to see you all in the near
future in Yusuf Abad Synagogue, one of the oldest synagogues in Tehran.
