It is clear now that the government won’t let Iranians demonstrate in peace. We call for freedom, democracy, equality and justice, and what do they do? They shoot at us. They kill our young men and women who have done nothing wrong except stand up for what they believe in. These courageous and heroic people who have given their lives for freedom will never be forgotten. Their families will not forget them, but neither will we! We have vowed to continue our struggle until we have attained a truly democratic and free political system, but whenever we go out to protest for this they beat us and shoot us. There is only one option left for us when we go out to fight for our human rights; We must be armed to defend ourselves!
If the dictatorship will not accept our calls for its death, and instead decides to kill us for our struggle, then we will do what is necessary to defend ourselves. We must make sure to be armed and prepared for any attacks they have prepared for us. Thousands of us have been captured by the disgusting secret police forces, the Basij and other state sponsored terrorists. They are now languishing in prisons like Evin all over the country. There they are being tortured and slowly killed. Imagine the pain they must be in! Imagine what they will do to us when they capture us! We must fight against this with all our might.
We have not chosen this path. The enemies of democracy have chosen it for us. They have decided that blood needs to be spilled, and our blood has been spilled for the past few days. This has gone on long enough. If they want blood to spill, then we shall make sure to spill theirs too!
There are undoubtedly people in the army and police who are sympathetic to our cause and who even want to take our side. Them we will respect and work with. We are calling on them to join us in this struggle. We will not shoot first and ask questions later like the Basij and other state-terrorists are doing now. But we will shoot at anyone who shoots at us first.
We must get weapons from wherever we can. If you have some old weapons lying at home, take them with you to a secure place where they can all be gathered. There you can stockpile as many of them as you can find. They can be used to attack armories and other storage places for weapons. We will use those to do the same until we have enough weapons to create our own police, our own militia, and eventually our own army!
But we will not be like the state terrorists. We will use our weapons to make sure that democracy is established, and that no one harms us for wanting to create such a society. When we chant death to the dictator, we mean it. And when we are armed, you will no longer dare stop us or our movement from saying that!
For everyone who has been martyred in the struggle since Friday, let’s arm ourselves!
Note: This message will be written in Farsi soon and sent to as many people in Iran as possible. The people must defend themselves from attacks. You have seen the videos and pictures of our young being killed without reason. This must be stopped, and only we can stop it when we are armed!
Rise of the Iranian People