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After months of anti-government demonstrations in Iran, protesters are calling for the collapse of the religious regime. social and political they demand freedoms.
The country’s opposition figures and civil society organizations have put forward proposals to transform the existing theocratic system, or even replace it with democracy.
In Iran, which has been ruled by the clerical establishment since the 1979 Islamic revolution political calls for change are heard.
Although the anti-regime protests that started in September have subsided in recent weeks, they are the biggest against the government for decades protest is considered Protesters were brutally beaten, hundreds of demonstrators were killed, thousands of people imprisonment done.
Inside Iran on February 14 20Trade unions, student organizations, and civil society groups announced their views on the “new, modern and humane society” in their joint charter.
Gender equality in the Charter, free speech rights, all political the release of prisoners, the abolition of the death sentence, and the protection of ethnic and religious minorities are demanded.
Before this document, he was an opposition figure Mir Hussein Jewish He called for “fundamental transformation” of the political system in Iran.
In a statement published on February 4, the 80-year-old politicianfree“referendum, called for a new constitution that will pave the way for a democratic system in Iran.
Ex under house arrest since 2011 Prime Minister received support from well-known figures inside and outside the country.
Iran’s leading Sunni cleric Molavi Abdolhamid and called for a referendum on the demands of the protesters. The cleric, who is one of the main protesters in the Islamic Republic, condemns human rights violations in the country in his sermons.
In the western Kurdistan region, which is the epicenter of the protests, a group of Islamic clerics called for a referendum with the participation of international observers, and to prosecute those who played a role in state repression.
February 10A group of exiled Iranian opposition figures gathered at Georgetown University in Washington. Among them is the former crown prince Reza Pahlavi, human rights activist Masih Alinejad was also
The group said free elections and later work on a charter for transition to a new, secular democratic system. However, this group of eight people and their proposals Iran it is not clear whether it will receive support from within.
Washington-based political analyst Ali Afshari says that a “revolutionary process” inspired by “Woman, life, freedom”, which is the main slogan of the anti-regime protests, is taking shape in Iran.
According to Afshari, a former student leader who was imprisoned for his activities in Iran, calls for a referendum and the publication of a charter by local civic groups protest opens a “hopeful perspective” for the movement.
Historian and Assistant Professor at the College of William & Mary in Virginia Peyman Jafari and notes that the charter prepared by ordinary institutions in Iran is “a strong reminder that radical change will come from within and from below”.
“The document makes concrete demands and can unite millions of Iranians around achievable goals,” – he emphasizes.