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PDF-English Journal-08 November 2025-No37
Falahatpisheh, a multiple-term MP in Iran, revealed that a certain outfit receives a budget of over 1,000 billion Toman a year to convert Japanese people to Islam, and after six years had converted one person — who turned out not to be Japanese. He called it a racket.
People harbour deep loathing for the government and its Islamic institutions, the herd of mullahs and ayatollahs, and the apparatuses of repression and proxy warfare, as well as the nuclear project. Ending the huge outlays lavished on them every year is one of the public’s aspirations — yet this has not become a slogan, a petition or a formal statement. All of these are instruments to stupefy, control and repress the public. Hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of assets have also been seized by officials, ayatollahs and the ruling mafia. All such spending must be cut, and all stolen assets confiscated and directed to people’s livelihoods.
But is it possible, in the current climate, for the public to raise this issue and these demands? Following the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution, the regime is far weaker and the people stronger, creating conditions to put forward such demands. If a regime insider like Falahatpisheh can denounce the religious racket and its costs in the state’s own media, the people can likewise demand — in statements or in the slogans of their gatherings — the elimination of budgets for religious institutions, for proxies, and for the nuclear and missile programmes; the recovery of the hundreds of billions stolen by the ruling freeloaders; and the channelling of those funds to ease the pressures on their lives.
Clearly these are instruments of regime survival, and the Islamic Republic will not surrender them at any price. Yet despite this, we can — and must — turn them into a public discourse and force the regime to retreat. Simply raising these demands opens a front in the struggle against the state and openly strips its organs and foundations of legitimacy. Regardless of how far the regime is pushed back, this has political and movement-building significance. We forced the regime to accept unveiled women, the end of stoning, satellite dishes and much else. In this arena, too, we must organise a powerful movement.
This discourse and these demands have become far more urgent and desirable in the current situation, and putting them forward will meet with broad public support. We should turn them into a discourse, a platform, a campaign and a political movement, and build a powerful front against the regime.
Editor: Patty Debonitas
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