The Islamic Republic, in the midst of war, has deployed thugs from Hashd al-Shaabi and Fatemiyoun into the streets. It believes that by parading these forces—who also acted as its instruments during the January massacres—it can intimidate the population. This is part of the regime’s military preparation to confront a people who are counting down to its overthrow and are ready to return to the streets at any moment.
The Islamic Republic’s priority has always been—and remains in every circumstance—confronting the people. The war itself has fundamentally arisen from this need: the regime relies on hostility toward the United States and Israel to preserve its rule in the face of a protesting society and to justify internal repression and murder. Internet shutdowns, rushed executions, mass arrests, the establishment of checkpoints, street patrols by repressive forces, and now resorting to Fatemiyoun and Hashd al-Shaabi—all are elements of the policy of a desperate regime at the end of its line, trying to keep itself afloat over a sea of public anger and hatred through fear, terror and war.
But the people have not been intimidated—neither by the January massacres nor by the regime’s repressive policies under the pretext of war. The people’s answer to the ruling criminals—and to the current war—is the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. As long as this regime remains, war, killing and repression will continue. The people of Iran, the region and the world will only see peace when the Islamic Republic is consigned to the dustbin of history.
With the overthrow of the Islamic regime in Iran, not only will forces such as Fatemiyoun, Hashd al-Shaabi, Hamas and Hezbollah be driven out of Iran and the region, but right-wing governments and movements that justify their reactionary and anti-human policies in the name of these forces will also be pushed back.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
5 April 2026
AI-assisted translation, from the original Farsi
