The uprising of the Iranian people continues to spread across the country. What began as protests against the economic crisis in Tehran on 28 December 2025 quickly turned into an uprising involving large crowds. Periodically in recent years, the simmering anger of the masses has risen to the surface, and after taking blows, it has withdrawn again, continuing to gather strength. Most recently, in 2022, the murder of Mahsa Amini by the fascist regime sparked nationwide protests under the slogan ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’. This accumulated anger has now resurfaced and is spreading alongside the uprising that began on 28 December. 

The fascist regime is attacking the people's legitimate struggle using every means of violence at its disposal. In response to the uprising led by workers, women, youth and students, the regime forces have carried out massacres. Police and military forces opened fire on protesters in all cities with all kinds of weapons, killing hundreds and arresting thousands. Those arrested are being tortured and executed. These massacres and arrests are increasing daily.

The imperialist powers are continuing their efforts to control the justified uprising of the people. Led by the United States and Israel, all imperialist states are attempting to portray the uprising as being under their control by publicly supporting it. The entire bourgeois media is manipulating the masses by propagating this narrative. 

This ongoing uprising is part of the Iranian people's long-standing and justified struggle against the current fascist regime. In this regard, the assessment by Iranian trade unions that ‘the protests that have begun are a popular uprising against poverty, high inflation, economic collapse, oppressive and coercive policies, the silencing of the people, violence against women, and the destruction of the fundamental principles of social life’ is significant. Consequently, the assertion by some bourgeois intellectuals that this is an imperialist-controlled rebellion aimed at undermining this just struggle is absolutely unacceptable. This approach isolates the resistance and deprives it of international solidarity. 

The legitimate struggle of the Iranian people will be won through international solidarity!

Contradictions between imperialist powers around the world are deepening. These contradictions are increasing the danger of a new world war. The US attack on Venezuela, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Israel's genocide in Palestine, and the Taiwan conflict between the US and China indicate that conflicts will intensify in the coming period.

In response, uprisings led by the masses, particularly women and young people, continue to spread far and wide. The new wave of uprisings initiated by the Iranian people is also part of the common struggle of the working class and oppressed peoples internationally. This struggle can only succeed with the support of the international working class and oppressed peoples.

With this sense of duty, as ATİK (Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe) we call on all democratic forces, human rights defenders, women's, youth and LGBTI+ organisations, workers' organisations and trade unions to embrace and support the just resistance of the Iranian people!

Down with the Fascist Iranian Regime!

Long live the Iranian People's Legitimate Resistance!

Long live International Solidarity!

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