Video: Collection of 17 short interviews – 2009 – English

Open letter to Luis Moreno–Ocampo, The Prosecutor International Criminal Court Information and Evidence Unit

July 8, 2009 Mr Luis Moreno–Ocampo The Prosecutor International Criminal Court Information and Evidence Unit Office of the Prosecutor Post Office Box 19519 2500 CM The Hague The Netherlands Dear Mr Luis Moreno–Ocampo I am writing on behalf of the people of Iran to call on the International Criminal Court to prosecute the Islamic Republic [...]

Open letter to: To heads of states and the UN Secretary General

Do not give the murderous rulers in Iran a break!

Freedom-loving people! With the end of the farce of an election in Iran, the reality that our Party has consistently reiterated is now clear for all to see: the Islamic regime of Iran cannot have elections nor can it be reformed. It must be overthrown. What we are seeing now is not the election aftershock [...]

Video: Creationism, Religious Education and Faith Schools, Chair

Landslide victory or velvet coup d’etat?

Interview with Hamid Taqvaee on Ahmadinejad’s presidential ‘election’ in Iran July 5, 2005 Maryam Namazie: Ahmadinejad, the right-wing candidate of the repressive security forces, the pasdaran and the Baseej won what the media is calling a landslide presidential election victory; his so-called election has been dubbed a surprise political upset in Iran. What has happened [...]

Round two of the election puppet show in Iran

Hamid Taqvaee June 22, 2005 The Islamic Republic of Iran eventually dragged itself to a second round in its election puppet show. Although the show is yet to be over, irrespective of the outcome, one thing is certain: the regime will come out of this farce even more crisis-ridden and desperate than before. The election [...]

Rise of anti-election movement in Iran

Interview with Hamid Taqvaee May 29, 2005 Maryam Namazie: The Islamic Republic of Iran is holding its presidential ‘election’ on June 17. You have stated this is not a real election. Why do you say that? Hamid Taqvaee: Actually by any standards, these cannot be called elections. The first reason is that in the Islamic [...]

Referendum or Revolution?

Interview with Hamid Taqvaee May 22, 2005 Maryam Namazie: There is a debate on the open democracy website entitled ‘Iran between democracy and revolution’. The debate has been started by Mohsen Sazegara who was part of Khomeini’s inner sanctum. He had a key role in creating the notorious Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic Pasdaran, as well [...]

On the US threat on Iran

Interview with Hamid Taqvaee February 13, 2005 Fariborz Pooya: What are the aims and objectives of the US government’s threat on Iran? Is it only because of the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran or do they have a wider objective in this regard? Hamid Taqvaee: As you have said, the US is [...]

Neither torture nor decapitation

Interview with Hamid Taqvaee May 2004 Maryam Namazie: The heinous torture of Iraqi prisoners by US forces and the barbaric decapitation of Nick Berg, the American, by Islamist forces have been in the headlines. You have said that the USA and political Islam’s forces are two sides of the same coin. What would you say [...]

Worker-communism in Iraq the dark scenario and the question of political power

Hamid Taqvaee February 2004 The political and social situation in Iraq is an immense human catastrophe, bleak, chaotic with total social disintegration. It is a dark scenario – a term initially labelled and characterised by Mansoor Hekmat. This state of affairs is a consequence of the post-cold war world and the resulting emergence of extremely [...]

Iran at the centre of political changes

Hamid Taqvaee September 2003 Based on a speech given at the 18th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran. We can assess what we have witnessed on the international scene during this period* in two ways. Firstly, as the result and consequence of the New World Order and policies associated with [...]

The basis of our policy is the human being

Hamid Taqvaee January 2003 The basis of socialism is the human being. This short sentence by Mansoor Hekmat is not just a slogan or a theoretical remark; rather, it is the reflection of a reality that every tactical move, policy and the programme ‘For a Better World’ of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) confirms. [...]

The socialist republic of Iran will be a free and equal society

Interview with Hamid Taqvaee September 2002 Ali Javadi: What are the main points of the Worker-communist Party of Iran’s demands and programme? Hamid Taqvaee: The Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) does not fundamentally accept the capitalist system and is striving to do away with it. The Islamic Republic represents an extremely backward, reactionary and savage [...]