Hollow Show of Force to Break Out of Irremediable Crises

Tehran's state-run radio today announced that the mullahs' regime will launch another nationwide suppressive campaign in the week of November 22-28. The anti-riot battalions of Ashura, Az-Zahra, and the student units of the Bassij will once again harass and arrest ordinary people in an organized state-sponsored event.

These maneuvers are a hollow show of force and a ridiculous attempt on the part of Iran's oppressive rulers to confront the rising trend of popular protests throughout the country. The presence of all-woman and student battalions indicates increasing discontent and participation of women and youngsters in social protests.

Beset by irremediable political, social and economic crises, and engulfed in an aggravating international isolation, the regime finds stepped up suppression and export of terrorism and fundamentalism as its only way out. The regime's inhuman crimes, however, do not hurt the Iranian people's determination to replace the ruling religious, terrorist dictatorship with a democratic and pluralist government.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris November 18, 1995

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