The Last Thing Iran Needs Is Another Imported Ideology

I've been so preoccupied with Church and personal matters that I haven't kept up with the situation in Iran. My friend, David, has.

By David Votoupal

Who is trying to hijack the Iranian national uprising?

Aria.Farpoori @ariafarpoori

پرچم ملی دفتر نقاشی نیست که هر روز به یک شکل طراحی می کنند و محدود به دوران پادشاهی پر افتخار پهلوی و حتی نماد پادشاهی یا جمهوری خواهی نیست هویت ملی ماست کافی است کتاب تاریخچه شیر و خورشید احمد کسروی(یکی از دهها منبع )را بخوانید تا ببینید عناصرش به درازای تاریخ ما قدمت دارد

7:37 PM ∙ Oct 7, 2022

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As protests in Iran and throughout the world continue, as the regime’s brutal repression continues and the confidence of Iranians of the regime’s downfall continues to grow, we have been treated to a sinister project of attempting to hijack the brave national uprising of the brave Iranian people by imposing foreign ideologies.

This project includes attacks on the Lion and Sun national flag, the Pahlavi family and on Iran’s ancient history. We saw it with deranged tweets by Golshifteh Farahani and Maryam Namazie, exhibiting a Communist flavour. Leftists, republicans, ethnic activists and the MEK cult all believe the uprising is about them, when evidence shows they have little support (or no support in the case of the MEK).

Moreover, the attempt to create a new flag for Iran showcases yet another imported ideology: one which rejects national identity and traditions in favour of virtue-signalling and borderless internationalism. Iranians are overwhelmingly patriotic and emphatically reject this. Designing a flag with a QR Code-like emblem which doesn’t stand for anything in particular is the sign of a rootless, soulless thinking detached from national identity and tradition. The rants of Farahani and Namazie are a reflection of this thinking.

Imported ideologies have brought misery to Iran, whether Marxist or Islamist. And today Iran is an occupied country ruled by an anti-Iranian regime, while Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen are also occupied countries. The MENA region has seen Communist, Baathist and Islamist ideologies turn beautiful and ancient countries into wastelands. And Iranians have suffered because of the Iranian equivalents of those very ideologies.

These ideological projects likely have support of transnational NGOs and think tanks, both “progressive” and (gulp) “conservative”. It’s not a surprise that the same idea pushed onto Nepal and Ethiopia, which is to turn those countries into federal republics, is also being pushed onto Iran. This has made patriotic people in all three countries resentful of foreign interference.

کاوه آهنگر #برای_ایران @b2Kaveh

سعیده قربانعلی مریم سامقانی سهیلا حجاب نرگس ادیبی خالدپیرزاده آتوسا صباغ یا هر آزادیخواه دیگری چه در زندان چه در پیکار سرمایه و ستون های #نهاد_پادشاهی هستند #Return_2_Pahlavi_4_iran

8:52 PM ∙ Dec 30, 2021

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Iranians did not choose the likes of Hamed Esmaeilion and Masih Alinejad to be “leaders” and neither of them are fit to be. The choice of the people is clearly one of constitutional government represented by Reza Pahlavi. Your only option is to support the patriotic majority, as represented by remarkable activists inside and outside Iran who are fighting the good fight.

Iranians will not welcome foreign ideological projects to remake an ancient nation in their own image. This has already been done in 1979 and they are fighting to bring that down right now.