The Kurdish people and the 13 of Aban
Several intellectuals, journalists, and activists linked to Iran’s Green Movement have in different open letters urged the Kurdish people of Iranian Kurdistan to take part in the demonstrations that the Green Movement plans to carry out on November 4th (13 of Aban in the Iranian calendar), which marks the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran. The Iranian regime has since 1979 celebrated this day as a symbol of Iran’s “resistance against the biggest evil on earth (i.e. the United States)”.
There are several reasons for why the Kurdish people will not take part in these demonstrations, read my article about why the Green Movement has no support in Kurdistan here.
It is also important to remember that the front figures of the Green Movement, all in one way or the other, supported the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 and the taking of the Embassy personal as hostages (read Mousavi and the Iran-Contra affairs). Our party was the only political party in all of Iran that publicly condemned the Embassy takeover in 1979, we believed then and we believe now that actions taken by the regime on the 4 of November 1979 was a crime against international law.
The front figures of the Green Movement, Mousavi, Karoubi etc. are all founders of the Islamic Republic and its oppressive methods. They have now chosen to stage demonstrations during the marking of different annual days like September’s Qods Day and the 13th of Aban, which the Islamic Republic uses to score cheap political points.
The problem with this strategy isn’t that the people take these opportunities to express dissatisfaction with the regime, but rather that the front figures of the Green Movement uses the peoples desirer for freedom and democracy as a tool to strengthen their own position within the system of the Islamic Republic.
Hence, the Green Movement will not be able to get any support from the Kurdish people as long as people like Mousavi, Karoubi etc. are the leaders of this movement. We do not have the same goals as they do and we refuse to be used as a tool for these people to come to power, because we are confident that they will not only not bring about the changes that the people of Kurdistan and Iran are yearning for, but they will rather continue with the policies that the Islamic Republic has perused since its establishment.
