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Open Letter From Homosexual University Students of Iran
 Open letter By the Network of Homosexual University Students of Iran
To The International Community
The painful incidents of the past few days reached their peak today. On Saturday June 20, the Islamic regime carried its violations of human rights of the past 30 years, further.
The People?s desire to choose their government peacefully in a fair election was frustrated by the Regime and the Supreme Leader with deception and imposition of force. This led to a silent protest after the election results shocked the whole country.
In the streets of Tehran, miles and miles of tolerant, calm, and resolved masses, about 3 million strong, confronted the rigged election. This peaceful yet determined protest was met with brutal force by the regime?s strongmen, shooting from rooftops and windows.
Strongmen and military forces are attacking civilians, using all sorts of weapons from boiling water to bullets. The basij, plain-cloths cultural police recruited to enforce religious morality, are now attacking people in their homes at night.
The Homosexual community of Iran has been living under harsh conditions of harassment and fear. We identify with the pain the People endured this last week; those who fought back tears and kept calm under attacks and assaults in which silence was the most effective or only shield.
These days, the Government is dismissing demands for justice, opening fire on people, and calling them ?less then dust,? ?dirt,? ?dirty? and ?fags,? eliciting years of dual oppression in the mind of homosexual community. Iranian queers have been struggling with the merciless oppressive Regime for years; we know very well what it means to endure cruelty.
In recent days, the Islamic Regime has been treating people in the same way it has treated the queer community over the past three decades. It is with this understanding in mind and with a hope for a fair and free future based on equality that we fight side by side, hand in hand against the dictator.
We urge the international LGBT community to hear our voice and hear the People of Iran in their demand for new elections. We ask the international LGBT community to assist us in alerting the world of the cruelties and the killings taking place in Iran during these days.
We fear that in the days to come, if the dictator wins, a generation -- our generation -- will simply be eliminated.
These days, the queer movement of Iran is alongside the people?s movement. We are certain that the death of democracy in Iran will sooner or later mean the death of all humanity. We are certain that in the denial of civil and individual rights ? as Ahamdinejad did in his first speech after his second round of his appointment to power, calling all protesters ?thieves,? ?ruffians?, and ?fags? ? all hopes for a civil society will be wiped out.
Yet we live with the hope of rescuing Iran from the spread of fascism. On the fourth day of the Silent Resistance, one protester held a placard pronouncing: I?m not afraid of death, my fear is of life ... three days has passed already. Equality, social justice, respect for different ethnicities, religions, languages, and sexual minorities are indeed possible, if people are not denied their rights within the framework of democracy.
We ask the international community, the international LGBT community, and human rights organizations or the world to be watchful of the atrocities in the streets of Iran today, to respect the Iranian people?s vote and their wish to live in a democratic society, and to refuse to recognise Ahmadinejad as Iran?s elected president until a new election is held in the presence of UN monitors. We ask the international community to support people of Iran through diplomatic pressure and UN intervention.
We ask the international community to stand by us and to urge governments to respect the Iranian People and their vote, to refuse to recognise Ahmadinejad as Iran?s president until we have the opportunity to elect our president with our own votes.
What we want is a new election. The People are resolved to take back their vote. For the people of Iran, particularly for the queer community and all other minorities, this is the only possible way forward.
Today the Iranian People are relying on their own capacity to resist and assert their quest for justice. This will not happen without the support of the international community.
Praised be the day when Iran is responsive and responsible for all its children and citizens.
In the name of freedom and social justice,
Homosexual Students of Universities in Iran
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