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On Sunday, 12 July, Iran’s Islamic Parliament passed a law stipulating the death penalty and asset seizure for “any intelligence activity, espionage, or operational action” on behalf of “hostile governments and groups.” The bill specifies that, aside from the United States and Israel (explicitly listed as hostile states), the National Security Council will determine others.
Another offence includes sending videos or information to “hostile or foreign networks” if it causes “public demoralisation.” The penalty: imprisonment and a permanent ban from public service.
This bill has nothing to do with identifying actual spies—who are already deeply embedded in the Islamic regime and fully aware of the consequences of exposure. These super-spies, with intimate knowledge of the leaders’ lives and even their bedrooms, are now beyond the regime’s control.
What the regime truly targets is what follows in the bill’s language: “sending footage or information to hostile or foreign networks” and “publicising and exposing” the regime in ways that “undermine public morale.” That is the regime’s real concern.
Let us be perfectly clear: based on what we know of this government, this decree will meet the same fate as countless others—reduced to a worthless scrap of paper that even its authors will soon forget.
We, the people, will bring down this inhumane law. We are a society poised for revolution, confronting a regime trapped in weakness and decay. Through unity, mobilisation, and organised strikes, we will paralyse this regime. We, the people, will trample these reactionary laws and crush the regime beneath our feet. Through relentless media campaigns, we will unleash a propaganda storm against the Islamic Republic. This is our battlefield—until the regime falls.
The executions and threats of execution for alleged espionage have nothing to do with purging infiltrators. In the wake of devastating military and political defeats, the people have seen the regime for what it is: a feeble and disgraced entity. Even before the attacks, it was under constant assault by a defiant public, unable to contain the people’s resistance.
Now, in desperation, the regime clings to executions—to save face with blows of death.
Iran stands on the brink of historic political transformation—with the fall of the Islamic Republic by popular revolution at its heart. Executions cannot shackle the people. Every death sentence only thickens the Islamic regime’s criminal file. Today, we, the people, can collectively and publicly dull the regime’s blade. Every citizen can become an organised anti-execution activist.
Editor: Patty Debonitas
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