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Comité International pour la Transition à la
Démocratie
en Iran
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International Committee for
Transition to Democracy in Iran
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Comitato
Internazionale per Transizione a la Democrazia nell’Iran
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Comité Internacional
por Transición Democratica
en Irán
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Internationales
Komitee für den Übergang zur Demokratie im Iran
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Members/Membres
Samir Amin,
Economist
Noam Chomsky,
Professor
of Linguistics
Costa Gavras,
Film Director
Albert Jacquard,
Scientist
José Saramago,
Nobel Laureate, (Literature)
Jean.-Pierre Vernant,
Historian
(Collège de France)
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Hélène Antoniadis-Bibicou,
Historian
André Guillou, Historian
Maurice Godelier,
Anthropologist
Alain Joxe, Sociologist
Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
Historian
(Professors at Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
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Paul Noirot, Publisher
Roland Sublon
Dean, Theology Faculty
(Strasbourg)
Jean Ziegler,
Sociologist, Geneva,
UN Special Rapporteur
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Supporters
Soutenu par
C. Fuehre;
Pastor, Leipzig
Harold Pinter
Playwright
Edward Said
Professor
of Literature
Immanuel Wallerstein,
Sociologist
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Press Communiqué
We call upon all the
democrats of the world to lend their support to the CITDI (International
Committee for Transition to Democracy in Iran) and its
Manifesto, thereby contributing to the mobilization the greatest support for
Iranian democrats who are trying to bring about a peaceful transition to
democracy in their country.
Given the dangerous
international situation and with the avowed intention of the Bush
Administration to reshape Western Asia geo-politically,
with the intention of controlling the vast resources of the regions as well
as those of Central Asia, it is imperative to do
everything possible in order to avoid a further extension of the disastrous
conflicts in the region. One of the means to attain this objective is
preempting peace through bringing pressure to bear on the clericrats
in power in order to compel them to yield to the will of the people who
demand a referendum for the establishment of a secular and democratic
republic. Such a solution could ensure a stable peace in a region that has
suffered so much under the harsh rule of local autocrats and their foreign
benefactors, who bring them to power in turn and remove them as their interests
require.
The events of recent weeks
and official declarations of the present American administration have
demonstrated that the hawks in Washington to eventually
seize Iran under the
pretext of targeting the anti-democratic regime in Tehran. In such an
eventuality, there can be no doubt that, as opposed to neighboring countries,
it would be very difficult to avoid the outbreak of a civil war in Iran,
whose consequences would be as devastating as incalculable—consequences that,
at any rate, could be by far more serious than those witnessed after the turn
the Iranian revolution took after 1979.
Given this perspective, the
CITDI stresses the necessity of a peaceful transition to a secular and
democratic republic in Iran. Only the
Iranians themselves, who have repeatedly demonstrated their democratic will,
particularly over the last six years, could play the decisive role in
averting a civil war.
World public opinion can
exercise a great influence on the course of events that are rapidly unfolding
in the region. In this honorable enterprise, the CITDI hopes to be able to
count on the active support and solidarity of the democrats of the entire
world. The repetition of the tragedy in Iraq by the American
army of occupation must be prevented in Iran if the lives of
thousands of innocent people, children, women, and men, as well as
journalists are to be spared.
Let us mobilize world public
opinion in to order help bring about the departure of the clericrats
in power and help organize a referendum for the establishment of a democratic
and secular republic in Iran!
Please send your
messages of solidarity and support to International Committee for Transition
to Democracy in Iran: citdi@yahoo.fr
Fax :
331-4876 6045
Today, world public opinion is the Alter-Super-Power.
Let’s mobilize it!
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