The Mask of Shah Worship on the Faces of Interrogators: From the 1967 Massacre to the Engineering of Protests in Mashhad

02/10/1404

Written by: Ahmad (political activist and witness to the 1967 massacre)

As someone who spent ten years of his youth on death row and was an eyewitness to the great crime of the 1967 massacre, and as a plaintiff and witness who cried out for mercy in the Stockholm court for the conviction of Hamid Nouri, I have a duty to warn against repetitive and dangerous security scenarios.

The suspicious death of Khosrow Alikurdi, a lawyer who courageously defended the families of political prisoners and political prisoners, has once again renewed the anger of the protesting families. The Shab Haft ceremony of this prominent lawyer in the Ghadir Mosque of Mashhad was not a simple mourning ceremony, but a scene of confrontation of the will of the people with the deception of the security apparatus. While the people were shouting fundamental slogans against the entire system and Khamenei personally with anger and disgust, a suspicious and influential group tried to divert the course of the protests by chanting slogans of "Javed Shah".

The shocking point is that these same individuals, who wore the mask of monarchism on their faces, immediately after causing a split in the ranks of the people, stood alongside the security forces and plainclothes officers and began beating and arresting the participants.

What happened in Mashhad proved that the "Saltanat" project is a plan engineered by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ammar base. This project is led domestically by the Basij and IRGC forces and abroad by "security elements"; the same elements who, pretending to be independent of the system, have taken the helm of the monarchy's movement abroad in an infiltrating role in order to marginalize genuine alternatives.

The regime, which is afraid of the unity of the people and destructive slogans, intends to both discredit the protests and identify and arrest the real fighters by creating a cover opposition.

This tactic is like a "wolf in sheep's clothing" that goes among the flock, not to keep them company, but to scatter them so that the ravenous wolves can more easily hunt them individually.

But the regime has been blind in its calculations. It is too late for these burnt tricks; because Iranian society, and especially Generation Z, have reached a level of awareness that they are no longer deceived by these security games. The strong reaction of the people in cyberspace against this infiltrating current, and especially the conscious reaction of the youth in Tabriz and Urmia, who during sports competitions, called these affiliated currents dishonorable with their slogans and showed their demarcation with any dictatorship (whether it is a sandal or a crown), is a testament to this awakening.

The Iranian people have proven that they know the enemy in every guise, whether in the guise of an interrogator in the 1960s or in the guise of today's "royalist" infiltrators. This awakening is a final blow to the Ministry of Intelligence's projects that aimed to prolong the life of the regime by distorting slogans.