When monarchism shows its real face
This statement exposes the violent and phalangist behaviour of monarchist forces at the memorial for Khosrow Alikordi and situates it within a broader pattern of repression, collusion with the Islamic Republic, and hostility to the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution. It documents how club-wielding, stone-throwing and intimidation were used to silence dissent, why monarchism has no social base in today’s struggles for freedom and equality, and how this current functions as a reactionary, anti-revolutionary force. A clear call to confront fascistic violence, defend political freedoms, and stand firm against attempts to derail the revolutionary movement.
Statement of the Worker-communist Party of Iran
On the phalangist conduct of monarchists at the memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi
What took place on 12 December 2025 at the memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, the people’s lawyer, on the one hand expressed the public’s solidarity with the family of this courageous lawyer and their protest against the Islamic Republic as the perpetrator of his killing; and on the other hand, it put on display the club-wielding and phalangist character of monarchism as an arm of repression for the Islamic Republic.
From the very day Khosrow Alikordi’s lifeless body was found in his office and the Islamic Republic hastily confiscated the office’s CCTV cameras, public opinion held this regime responsible for his murder. People in both Sabzevar and Mashhad voiced their anger and protest against the Islamic Republic and its crimes by chanting anti-government slogans. On 12 December 2025, in front of the Ghadir Baba-Ali Mosque in Mashhad, these protests reached their peak. There, people chanted slogans such as “Death to the dictator”, “Death to Khamenei”, “Dictator, look—dignity is not for sale”, “By the blood of the Sarbedaran, we will stand to the end”, and “Woman, Life, Freedom”, protesting against the Islamic regime and demonstrating that the revolutionary movement that began in 1401 is still alive.
At the same time, a group of monarchists and supporters of Reza Pahlavi, chanting slogans such as “Death to the three corrupt—mullah, leftist, Mojahed” and “Long live the Shah”, and hurling insults and abuse at the speakers at the ceremony—including Narges Mohammadi and Sepideh Gholian—and throwing stones at them, laid bare their thuggish and repressive nature and openly demonstrated their alignment with the regime’s cyber forces in suppressing opponents. These filthy and fascistic acts were also continued on social media by monarchist thugs and regime cyber operatives, further exposing their cooperation and convergence and revealing the true face of monarchism to the public—so much so that even some figures within this current were compelled to react.
The outcome of the actions of these club-wielders and stone-throwers was that, through these fascistic acts, they effectively gave the Islamic Republic a freer hand to attack the demonstrators and arrest dozens of protesters. Reza Pahlavi, as the leader of this lumpen and fascistic current, promptly praised the repressive actions of his supporters and their collusion with the regime.
Repressive behaviour, verbal abuse and insults against left-wing and freedom-seeking forces are not new among monarchists; however, with the growth of awareness and radicalism in society and the complete lack of horizons for this current, they have intensified. This conduct is rooted in the reactionary and dictatorial nature of this current—one that finds itself politically discredited and without a future in Iran’s political landscape and therefore resorts to repression, abuse and insults against its opponents, that is, virtually all sections of the opposition inside and outside the country. From the outset, monarchists made their irrelevance to the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution clear and desperately attempted to strip this women-led revolution of its emancipatory and humane content by renaming it a “national revolution” or a “man, homeland, prosperity” movement.
By definition, the monarchist current has no place within the social movements of the Iranian people for welfare demands, the struggle against executions and compulsory Islamic hijab, the fight for the freedom of political prisoners and political freedoms, or other just struggles of the people. There is no trace of this current in these struggles either inside or outside the country. It seeks only to impose itself on society through grotesque, backward propaganda spectacles and shows, in the hope of carving out a place for itself in Iran’s future developments.
The club-wielding and stone-throwing of monarchists in protests—which for some time has spilled over from abroad into the country itself—is not merely grist to the mill of the Islamic Republic. The actions and positions of monarchists do not stem solely from blind loyalty to the Pahlavi family; they arise from the fundamental identity of this current as a supporter of the capitalist mafia, one that harbours deep hostility towards the very movement, will and initiative of the people.
The services rendered by monarchists to the Islamic Republic must be understood as a class reaction to the very emergence of a revolution that has entered the arena under the banner of Woman, Life, Freedom and is determined to dismantle not only the Islamic Republic but the entire system that sustains it, from the ground up. Monarchists are, in strategic terms and in their value foundations, fundamentally hostile to revolution, because revolution, by its nature, is radical and uprooting, and is incompatible with monarchy and any form of power exercised from above society—any form of authoritarian and repressive authority. Revolution stands in direct opposition to such power.
It is no coincidence that they refer to terrorists such as Qassem Soleimani as a “national commander”, and argue for preserving the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the sake of “order” during the transition period, as well as maintaining the military and police forces, prisons, the repressive bureaucracy and the levers of power above society, and even defending the preservation of Islam itself. All of this demonstrates that monarchists are, at a fundamental level, aligned with their turbaned class counterparts in power. Today one can speak of a form of convergence, cooperation and even a practical, informal alliance between the monarchist opposition and those sections of the regime that regard velayat-e faqih as an obstacle to the preservation of their wealth and power—to the point that the boundary between regime cyber forces and monarchists in attacks on opponents of monarchy has in practice been entirely erased. Hezbollah has now joined hands with Shah-allah.
The Worker-communist Party strongly condemns the repressive and disgraceful conduct of the monarchists and calls on all progressive, forward-looking and revolutionary forces to stand decisively against this club-wielding and these fascistic and lumpen actions, and to neutralise the base attempts to strike at the revolutionary Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
Those arrested at the memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi must be released immediately and unconditionally.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
15 December 2025
AI-assisted translation, from the original Farsi
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