While thanking you for the particular
attention you are paying to the human rights catastrophe taking place in Iran, the following distinct criticism is being presented
with regards to the content of the said resolution:
In the draft of this resolution which was approved in November by
the third committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations organization,
and will be presented for voting to the General Assembly of the United Nations
organization in December, profound concerns have been expressed regarding
serious and continuous violations of human rights in the Islamic Republic of
Iran, in which torture, violent punishments and actions, and since the
presidential elections of 2009, widespread and serious restrictions with
regards to the freedom of peaceful assembly and gathering, freedom of speech
and thought, the continuation of constant house arrests of leading opposition
figures - despite serious concerns with regards to their health, as well as other
stated issues, showing that in the preparation of the draft, all published
reports in international organizations and Iranian institutions in defense of
Human Rights have been investigated and taken into account, and hence this
action should be commended; however a very important issue has remained absent,
and that is the fundamental issue of interference of religion and
politics, which was not mentioned at all!
1- Without any doubt one can officially
recognize the subject of “ separation of religion from politics” as a separate
title with regards to the immense catastrophic human rights report card of the
Islamic Republic of Iran, because since more than 8 years, a well-known
religious leader called Ayatollah Seyed Hossein Kazemeini
Boroujerdi, has been subjected to continuous imprisonment and physical and
psychological tortures, merely because he has publicly highlighted the vital
importance of all the Iranian people. Based on published documents in the Human
Rights defense organizations, a few samples of which are attached at the end of
this letter, Ayatollah Boroujerdi is asking for a free referendum to be
organized in order to determine the type of government in Iran, and to
eliminate laws, violent and merciless punishments and actions, all of which
have been defined within the framework of religious laws in Iran.
The authoritarian principle of the "guardianship
of Islamic jurists” (Vilayat Faqih)" is guaranteed in the
constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and provides
the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khamenei,
with full authority in all affairs of
the state; it is based on the theorization of interference of religion
and politics, and in short, the core
of all instances of violation of the
rights of Iranian people, and the nurturing of terrorism
and war mongering, orchestrated by the
officials of the regime,
are without exception religious excuses!
2-
The slogan: "our religion is exactly
like our politics, and our politics is exactly like our
religion” was the well-known statement of the founders of the Iranian Revolution,
and with this reasoning, they based the ordinance of unjust
discriminatory rules such as gender,
religious, ethnic, ideological discriminations,
and implementation of cruel punishments like imprisonment, lashing, execution, stoning,
and… and completely based their reasoning on religious laws,
claiming that they were derived from Islamic laws and the Shiite religion, and
in order to justify the suffocating atmosphere and the confinement of writing
and speech, and in view of institutionalizing the suppression of civil protests,
they resorted to religious and spiritual pretexts, and this trend has been maintained and reinforced
in various forms until now.
3-
During 36 years from the time the rule of the Islamic jurists was established, great
reformist figures, with the support of millions of oppressed Iranians, have
stepped up in order to fight against such a structure, but due to the
inflexibility of the rule of the Islamic jurists, and the complexities arising
from the interference of religion and politics, they have not been able to take
effective steps, and as a result the widespread violation of human rights, and
the creation of crisis at an international level, are still among the most
prominent indicators of the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Most
reformist factions within Iran, have not paid sufficient attention to the importance
of the fundamental desire of the nation based on “the separation of religion
from politics”, and perhaps they were not firm believers of this concept,
therefore the inalienable right for the separation of religion from politics,
as a comprehensive and profound remedy, did not receive as much attention as it
should have, and non-recurring opportunities in view of changing the
authoritarian structure of the religious regime were lost in this land!
With thanks
The representatives of Mr. Kazemeyni
Boroujerdi inside and outside of Iran
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