Where are the Ralph Ramkarans, Donald Ramotars , Clement Rohees , Freddie Kissoons, , Shell Mohamed , the CIOG , the Guyana Islamic Trust , the rest of the Usual Suspects , Vanda Radzik-Viera , her sister Danuta Radzik and the rest of the team of fringe lunatics when you need them? Where is their outrage, their fury, their passion as over 5,000 freedom-loving Iranians, sons and daughters, were massacred by Islamist theocrats? Compared to the anti-Israel outcry, the double standards are despicable.
Many of these Communist personalities and activists spent the last three years flooding social media, denouncing Israel’s just war of self-defence in Gaza as “genocide”, and yet now, when actual crimes against humanity are being committed in Iran, their near-silence is deafening. Every horror they claimed, falsely, Israel was inflicting upon Palestinians, the Iranian regime is actually meting out to its own people: protesters are being shot in the back of the head or machine-gunned in the streets, hospital rooms are being broken into, young people summarily executed, and dissidents tortured.
It is pure, unadulterated evil, an obscene moment in history, a stain on humanity. So where are the chants of “from the Gulf to the Caspian Sea, Iran will be free”? The hypocrisy is sickening, the double standards despicable. These same people don’t really care about Iran, just as they are largely unbothered by the genocide in Sudan, the persecution of the Uyghurs. They are more interested in demonising Israel than in saving innocent lives.
The ICC, the ICJ and all the other acronyms have proved equally useless, and we are still waiting for the UN resolutions and investigations. Three months ago, the UN Human Rights Council elected an Iranian regime diplomat to its advisory committee, an Orwellian parody if ever there was one. Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, falsely claimed last year that “14,000 babies” were facing starvation within 48 hours in Gaza, fuelling much anti-Israel hatred. As of Wednesday evening, his X feed has so far made no mention of the horrendously real Iranian massacre.
Why is there no such thing as LGBTQ+ for Iran, or Iranian Lives Matter, or Justice for Iran, or groups advocating “intersectional resistance” to the Ayatollahs’ “patriarchy and occupation”? If you are the wrong kind of victim, these same Usual suspects don’t care about you. As long as the Iranian regime is anti-Israel, its atrocities don’t matter to the usual suspects in Guyana. Where have those who supposedly care about ethnic cleansing been as millions of Iranians fled their beloved homeland since 1979, fueling a diaspora of 4-6 million?
Erfan Soltani, 26, a shopkeeper,has been condemned to be executed for demanding basic rights. Where are the anti-death penalty advocates who always want such laws to be removed in Guyana? Iran persecutes gays, women and religious minorities. Where are those Christian bishops who claim to care about religious freedom in the Middle East?
The Iranian director and filmmaker, Javad Ganji, was murdered by the Iranian regime last week. Why didn’t the usual suspects in Guyana care? Mojtaba Torshiz, a former midfielder for Tractor, the Iranian football league winners, left his daughters with his parents and went out to protest. He and his wife were murdered. Rebin Moradi, 17, one of Tehran’s most promising youth footballers, was assassinated. Where are the condemnation from the Guyana Football Federation?
For these same Usual suspects who were marching in 2023 and 2024 in Georgetown, loudly supporting Gaza was just a circus act, a performative ritual, to signal their virtue, their membership of the high-status “good people’s” club. Iran’s young are heroes, taking on Iranian Islamic Republic thugs and dying for their beliefs, yet speaking up for them isn’t sexy.
These Usual suspects have succumbed to the omnicause, an anti-Western, totalitarian mindvirus, the byproduct of decades of Karl Marx , laced with Leninism, superstition, conspiratorial thinking and prejudice. The omnicause deems America, Israel and the capitalist world as the epitome the fount of all evil, guilty of every “ism” and “cide”, and thus promotes and supports third worldist regimes and causes that undermine our societies. The Iranian revolution of 1979 is the original fusion of Communism and Islamism, so it remains a model for these deluded proponents of the omnicause.
This is why so few of the so-called Guyanese activists support Iran’s freedom-fighters. These Iranian citizens on the streets are pro-freedom and pro-democracy. They curse Hamas and Hezbollah, and demand the end to Tehran’s handouts to its proxies. This same group in Guyana dismisses their critics as “Islamophobic”, so they cannot process scenes from Iran where Muslim women burn their compulsory hijabs and where Muslim crowds reject state-enforced religion as part of a secularist uprising.
The Iranian regime-funded death squads- Hamas and Hezbollah of October 7 2023, were horrifically similar to those roaming Iranian cities today; one day, a free Tehran will resemble Tel Aviv. The failure of the Islamic dictatorship is total. The banks are collapsing. Chants of “Jāvid Shāh”, long live the Shah, dominate anti-regime demos; only a total break with the past 47 years will suffice.
This Iranian regime is one of the most monstrous on earth. Its collapse, when it comes, will be akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall – but this time, rather than being freed from communism, millions will be liberated from Islamism.
Long live a free Iran.
yours truly
Devendra Persaud
