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Declaration of the Hekmatist Party
Attacks on residential areas and killing of civilians are condemned.
Both Netanyahu and Khamenei are murderers of defenseless people.
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands injured in the rocket attacks and bombings of the criminal Israeli regime. Except for cases where the regime’s commanders were in residential areas, most of the dead and injured were not regime personnel or forces, but civilians and ordinary people. In the brutal attacks of the Israeli army, water depots, oil and gas refineries, and community facilities and infrastructure were targeted. They even promise to “turn Tehran into Gaza.” Netanyahu, the murderer of the people of Gaza, has today become the murderer of the people of Iran. Khamenei and the Islamic Republic are also following Netanyahu’s policy exactly. Rocket attacks on cities and residential areas and expressions of joy over the killing and wounding of ordinary people and civilians. According to statistics so far, dozens of people have been killed and hundreds injured in the Islamic Republic’s attacks on Israel. In Israel, you can go to shelter, but in Iran there is not even a shelter. Netanyahu and Khamenei are of the same type, both are thirsty for the blood of defenseless people, and both have a long record of crimes and genocide.
The Workers’ Communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist strongly condemns the attack by the Israeli and Islamic Republic armies on hospitals, infrastructure facilities, civilian sites and individuals. We are against this reactionary war and demand its immediate cessation. If the Islamic and Jewish fascists were to drop their bombs on each other, we, the workers’ communists, would not have faced any objections. They knowingly commit crimes against defenseless people under any pretext or justification and are happy with this barbarity. Killing children, patients and civilians is not “casualties and collateral costs”, it is premeditated murder, it is barbarity and a sense of bloodlust, it arises from religious hatred and it is a conscious crime. The case of war crimes will one day be turned over alongside other criminal cases.
Criminal Netanyahu and Khamenei must be tried!
Down with the Islamic, religious, and authoritarian governments!
Freedom, equality, workers’ government!
Workers’ Communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist
June 17, 2025
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