Statement/19 April 2024
The secretariat’s reading of Iran’s missile attack on Israel
The secretariat says a quarter-century of missile and drone spending has shifted the regional balance, and that the Islamic Republic must be removed by the Iranian people, who should keep the country’s hard defensive power.
Under the Islamic Republic, Iran has been semi-militarized over 25 years, at a cost of more than one trillion dollars in the missile and drone industries alone.
This military technology proved itself in the field by passing through Israeli and American air defenses. This is a change in the strategic balance in the Middle East and in the world.
The soil of Iran, its territorial integrity, is in complete security.
The ill-wishers of Iran, small and large, have taken the measure of the situation. Instead of enmity, they should seek friendship with the Iranian nation, which is to everyone’s benefit.
The Islamic Republic as a whole must be changed by the hand of the Iranian nation.
The best option is the removal of the whole corrupt and incompetent Islamic ruling system by the hand of the Iranian nation.
We no longer want the system of the mullahs and of those who imitate them. After the election of 2 March 2024 they have no legitimacy. In a referendum of non-participation, the absolute majority of the people said no to this government as a whole. An illegitimate government must step aside, and we will do this soon.
The Iranian nation will keep its hard military power, and needs it to defend the country and its interests.
More than one trillion dollars of direct spending on military industries, and some five to seven trillion dollars of damage over nearly half a century, have come from incompetence, corruption, and theft, crippling sanctions, a failure to understand the national economy, national humiliation, the displacement of eight million people, and the sacrifice of the lives of three generations of the Iranian nation. This back-breaking cost is perhaps beyond any country and nation in the world. It is a cost that Western countries, led by a devil and a hyena such as Jimmy Carter, James Callaghan, Giscard d’Estaing, and Helmut Schmidt, laid on Iran and the Middle East.
A last word: there is no road other than the removal of the Islamic Republic by the hand of the Iranian nation.
The Azarbaijan Movement, as an Iranian political organization, asks the whole nation, and especially Azarbaijanis across the country, to show once more their iron will to remove the illegitimate government of the Islamic Republic, and to be certain that in the destiny of nations no force is as decisive as the nations themselves.
Long live Iran and the Iranian nation.
Secretariat of the Azarbaijan Movement for Democracy and Integrity of Iran
16 April 2024