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Statement
of International Committee for Transition to Democracy in Iran
Press
Communiqué
It is with great apprehension that we witness the development of the
situation in Iran—characterized by thousands of arrests (4000,
according to official sources, of whom 2000 are still detained)—on the
wake of recent student demonstrations. Other reports speak of kidnapping
of activists and the intensification of operations by paramilitary
groups (Ansar-e Hezbeollah) against the students.
A number of individuals inside prisons and on university campuses have
gone on hunger strike in order to demand the freedom of those jailed and
their right to proper defense.
Clearly, the legitimate demands of the students -- in their overwhelming
majority coming from modest social backgrounds -- for democracy in Iran
took a new development with the protest against the privatization of the
country’s universities. It is, therefore, important not to confuse the
true support of this movement with its push-button exploitation and even
attempts at capitalizing it through the media by powers that had, for 25
long years, supported the shah’s dictatorship established after the
Anglo-American putsch in 1953, overthrowing the patrio-democratic
government of Mosaddeq.
In view of the urgency of the situation, we cannot but request everyone
to intervene with the Iranian authorities in order to put an end to the
exactions against Iranian students.
Members/Membres
Samir Amin, Economist. Antonio L. Antunes, Novelist (Portugal). Claude
Cheysson, Fmr Fr. For. Minister. Regis Debray, Phiosopher. M.-Ch.
Ferjani, Pol. Scientist/Islamologist (CNRS, Univ.Lyon II). Philippe
Fritsch, Sociologist (Univ. Lyon II). Costa Gavras, Film Director.
Antonio Gomez-Moriana, Prof. of Comparative Literature (Montreal &
Vancouver, The Canadian Academy of Sciences and Humanities). Albert
Jacquard, Scientist. Peter von Moos, Historian (Germany). Paul Noirot,
Publisher (Paris). José Saramago, (Noble Laureate, Literature). Roland
Sublon, Fr. Dean, Faculty of Theology (Strasbourg). Jean.-Pierre Vernant,
(Historian, Collège de France). Jean Ziegler, Sociologist, UN Special
Rapporteur (Geneva).
Hélène Antomadis-Bibicou, Hisorian. André Guillou, Historian. Maurice
Godelier, Anthropologist. Alain Joxe, Sociologist. Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
Historian (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris).
Supporters
Francesca Albertini, Depart. of Phil. Freiburg Univ. Ian Angus, Prof. of
Humanities (Vancouver). André Brigot, Sociologist. Antoine Casanova,
historien (Directeur de La Pensée). Noam Chomsky, Professor of
Linguistics (MIT). C. Fuehrer, Pastor (Leipzig). Alain Hayot, sociologue.
A.M. Hochet, Sociologist. Jean-Pierre Kahane, Mathématicien. John G.
Mason, Political Scientist (N.Y.). Geraldo Otero, Sociologist
(Vancouver). Harold Pinter, Playwright. Edward Said, Prof. of
Literature. Imre Szeman, Director, Institute on Globalization and the
Human Condition (McMaster Univ., Canada). Immanuel Wallerstein,
Sociologist
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Comité International pour la Transition à la Démocratie en Iran
International Committee for Transition to Democracy in Iran
Comitato Internazionale per Transizione a la Democrazia nell’Iran /
Comité Internacionalpor Transición Democratica en Irán
Internationales Komitee für den Übergang zur Demokratie im Iran
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