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The death toll has now reached hundreds, and the smoke of war has risen from all over Tehran and other cities in Iran. Israel, which has been killing the people of Gaza for months and forcing the survivors to die of famine and starvation, has now extended its warmongering and aggression to the people of Iran with its plan for a “new Middle East.” The people who have stood up to the oppression and crimes of the Islamic Republic for years, have lost their most beautiful children in street massacres, executions, prisons and detention centers, and have endured poverty, corruption, and organized discrimination, are now feeling the marks of the foreign enemy’s boots on their throats.

The war between a fascist regime rooted in occupation and genocide and a government that relies on the bloodshed of its opponents and freedom fighters not only destroys the lives of the people but also halts and perhaps sets back years of struggle for freedom and equality.

Now, there is a fear that the gains of the 2022 freedom movement in Iran, which itself emerged from numerous earlier uprisings, may be lost amid the current aggression, and in the scorched earth that follows, ultra nationalism, far right (ideologies), and neo-fascism could thrive—especially since for both sides, Israel and the Islamic Republic, war is a “blessing” that sustains them.

Israel, which, thanks to its leaders, considers any living thing as its legitimate target, is now, with the help of mainstream media, pushing back the public wave against the genocide in Gaza. The Islamic Republic, relying on the idea of ​​its founder of, “shed the blood, our lives will endure,” has begun laying the groundwork for the arrest and killing of its opponents, and its agents are promising in cyberspace to create another “67.”[1]

All this is happening under the watchful eyes of a world in which two media poles are swallowing independent voices from both sides: one pole that creates a savior-like image of a government infamous for its infanticide, and the other pole that conceals the oppressive face of the Islamic Republic behind the facade of defending the homeland. The joy of the people at seeing the death of their murderers never means embracing the aggression against their land and lives. But how can people find their true voice and position in the conditions of government filtering, insecurity and anxiety of war, and media bombardment? How can they mobilize their solidarity and their immense strength to support each other? How can they think of a solution to stop this killing machine?

Neither a foreign aggressor nor a domestic oppressive force has the right to usurp the agency and will of the people in determining their own destiny. It is the right of every nation to stand against aggression against its territory, just as it is the right of every nation not to submit to an oppressive government.

The world’s silence in the face of this aggression, under the pretext of adventurism and tyranny of the Iranian regime, will only magnify the dimensions of the disaster. The Iranian Writers’ Association condemns Israel’s blatant aggression against Iranian territory and calls on freedom-loving writers, intellectuals, and like-minded institutions in Iran and the world to step forward in their true and enlightening role to break the bipolarity that dominates the media by promoting the independent voice of the people and strengthening their freedom-loving movements.

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Footnotes

1. A reference to summarily and extrajudicially execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.