Mohammad Maljoo, Iranian leftist writer and researcher who has lost his academic career due to his sharp criticism of the neoliberal policies in Iran and has faced arrest in several occasions in past decade, wrote a response to the naïve or complicit forces who demand a regime change in Iran in the middle of the US and Zionist bombardment of the Iranian civil infrastructure. The translation is as follows:
They say whoever opposes the military aggression is a supporter of the government. As if the world is divided by two darkness: authoritarianism and bombs [translator: the ones who drop the bombs are also bringing more authoritarianism]. This bifurcation is not true. The people who are most supressed by the authoritarianism are the same ones whose lives are burning from the fire of the war on their country. Bombs do not bring freedom. War only make the wounds deeper and makes authoritarianism more stable. Opposition to war is not justifying the status quo. Opposition to war is equivalent to securing the fundamental right for the society to write their own destiny, out of the constraints and the fire of fighter jets.
