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Relatives of slain protesters in Iran reject gov’t bribes
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BY TERRY EVANS
Vol. 84/No. 6
February 17, 2020
Borhan Mansournia, left, an Iranian Kurd, was killed by gov’t security
forces when he joined protests in November. Relatives are speaking out
about killing
in face of capitalist rulers’ efforts to bribe them into lying and
blaming his killing on fellow protesters. At right is his father. figure
Borhan Mansournia, left, an Iranian Kurd, was killed by gov’t security
forces when he joined protests in November. Relatives are speaking out
about killing
in face of capitalist rulers’ efforts to bribe them into lying and
blaming his killing on fellow protesters. At right is his father.
Borhan Mansournia, left, an Iranian Kurd, was killed by gov’t security
forces when he joined protests in November. Relatives are speaking out
about killing
in face of capitalist rulers’ efforts to bribe them into lying and
blaming his killing on fellow protesters. At right is his father. figure end
Relatives of protesters who were murdered by Tehran’s security forces
last November have spoken out against the authorities’ attempts to bribe
them to
lie about the killings. The protesters rose up against the bourgeois
clerical regime’s wars abroad and the resulting economic crisis at home.
The relatives
are being pressed to register their slain loved ones as “martyrs” — that
is, supporters of the regime — and to state publicly that they were shot
dead
by other protesters. Some 1,500 were killed and thousands more injured
or arrested as the government moved to put down the protests.
Families are being offered one-off lump payments, monthly pensions,
slots for their children at universities, and public sector jobs if they
comply, and
threatened with retaliation if they refuse, said the Kurdish news agency
Rudaw.
Families in Kermanshah, Marivan, Sanandaj and Javanrood reported they
were pressed to take the blood money.
The family of Borhan Mansournia — an Iranian Kurd who died when
authorities delayed giving him medical treatment after they shot him at
a protest in Kermanshah
— told Rudaw they had refused.
A political crisis has been shaking the Iranian rulers since the mass
protests began in late 2017. Each time the government represses the
actions, they
reappear larger and more determined.
Thousands took to the streets again this January to denounce the
government and its cover-up of the Revolutionary Guard shooting down of
a Ukrainian civilian
aircraft last month in which all 176 on board were killed.
The regime’s interventions in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere
are an effort to extend abroad the counterrevolution they carried out at
home against
the working people who made the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Out of that
massive popular struggle that overthrew the U.S.-backed shah, workers
had organized
councils in the factories and refineries to advance their demands,
farmers organized to fight for land, Kurds and Arabs for their national
rights and women
mobilized to fight for equal rights.
The gains made were pushed back by the bourgeois clerical rulers, but
the workers were never crushed.
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