An unprecedented and vast genocide and massacre has been carried out in Iran by the savage rulers. A new chapter in the history of this country has been opened. A bloody page has been turned that is unprecedented even in the history of the blood-sucking gang of Khomeini and Khamenei themselves. The ruling criminals, who saw themselves sliding towards overthrow in the face of the people’s immense uprising, cut the internet and unleashed their armed mercenaries on the protesting population. More than twenty thousand people were massacred, particularly on 7 and 8 January; thousands were wounded, and some of the injured were finished off with execution shots. The heads of the government—from Khamenei to Ejei, Radan, Ghalibaf, Pezeshkian, and other Islamic killers—are beating the war drum and have instructed their prosecutors to treat all protesters as mohareb (enemies at war).
Khamenei and the other criminal leaders of the regime must know that these crimes will not save you. You are facing a people who are angrier and more determined than ever, and a government that is more illegitimate and crisis-ridden than ever. The rage and hatred you have piled up in the hearts of tens of millions will become your undoing. We will mobilise the world against you. We will make it impossible for any government to buy legitimacy for you. You cannot deprive a society of everything—from the most basic freedom to the most basic means of life—and remain in power through crime. You cannot rule over this people with a sea of blood. You cannot stop protest, strikes, and revolution with repression forces who are themselves afraid even of their own ranks. You cannot survive with a shattered economy, a fractured government, international isolation, defeat in the region, and while being surrounded by tens of millions of people who utterly despise you.
The protesting and dignified people of Iran:
Stand with the bereaved families with all your strength. Take part in memorial ceremonies for the fallen in gatherings of thousands. Alongside the families of those arrested, exert every effort to rescue our loved ones from torture chambers. Expand mutual aid in all areas of society. Organise more protest networks. Spread the news by every possible means. Organise yourselves more deeply in workplaces, educational institutions, cities, and neighbourhoods, and prepare for large-scale and nationwide strikes and demonstrations. Honourable and popular figures—artists, writers, and people’s athletes—are expected to raise their voices of protest in whatever way they can. And Iranians abroad must enter the field with all their strength.
To defend life, we are compelled to fight. We will rise again and, through our unity, bring this bloodthirsty, corrupt, hated, and bankrupt government to an end. We will drag Khamenei and the leaders of the regime out of their hiding places and put them on trial. The Worker-communist Party will spare no effort on this path.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
14 January 2026
AI-assisted translation, from the original Farsi
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