It was in 1953 that the popular and democratic prime minister Mohammad Mosadegh, who advocated a policy of ‘negative equilibrium’ (not depending on the defense of one foreign power to repel another) and nationalized Iranian oil, was overthrown. With this coup, the second democratic experience in the Middle East was replaced by a brutal dictatorship which was supported by the US and UK alike. It was after this coup that Houshang Anushe, who was then serving in the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf , tried with some friends to sabotage an Iranian warship in an act of desperation. They were arrested and a military court condemned them to death. Here he is just before he was to be executed. Through a courageous smile, he tells us: you can kill me, but you can’t scare me. I would prefer to die than to live under dictatorship.
It has been nearly 120 years since the first democratic movements and revolutions began in Iran . We have come a long way since that time, and never have been as close to democratic change as we are now. Just one push, one major push, can overthrow the dying mafia regime in Iran and replace it with a democratic government that can create an alternative economic system in which human beings are prioritised – i.e., the opposite of the logic of the neo-liberal system.
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