The Marze Por Gohar Party Welcomes the Slogans of the Bahraini Youth

LOS ANGELES, March 17, 2011 - Marze Por Gohar

The Bahraini revolution has a special place in the hearts of Iranians
that sets it apart from all the other uprisings sweeping across the Middle
East and North Africa.

The young revolutionaries of Bahrain have raised slogans, fostering unity
with their Iranian brethren, which will undoubtedly signify the dawn of a new
era in the region, where in time natural and historical ethnic, cultural and
national unities will dominate over colonial lines and political blocks.

Despite the fanatical and anti Iranian nature of the current Islamic
regime in Iran (IRI), the urge to revive Iranian identity among Iranian,
Afghan, Tajik and many others across the Grater Persian Gulf and Central
Asian lands, is quickly dominating the narrow Islamist fanaticism fostered by
the IRI for 32 years.

During Bahraini demonstrations in early March 2011, the Bahraini secular
youth, with their revived Iranian patriotism raised the following slogans
which do not signify any religious agenda or fanaticism:

"No to Arab Brotherhood… Long Live Iran", and

"Long Live Iran… Down with Khalifah Dynasty"

It is evident that in spite of massive Saudi expenditures and ideological
propaganda, forty years after the British inspired forced separation of
Bahrain from Iran*, the Bahraini youth have not forgotten their Iranian
heritage and their thousands of years of common destiny and life with their
Iranian Brethren. It is Ironic that the current same Islamic Republic that
continues to occupy Iran, which has repeatedly demonstrated its urge to
destroy pre Islamic culture, heritage and even archaeological sites within
Iran, is distancing itself from such unilateral approaches by those craving
for their Iranian identity and heritage. The IRI had also previously refused
to identify with Azeri, Afghan and Tajik Iranians, not fearing regional
powers but rather fearing the very Iranian identity within Iran and the
neighboring regions which has been a constant deterrent to the sectarian
Shiite identity of the regime which is the only identity recognized by these
invaders.

* Following the decision of the British empire to get out of the Persian
gulf in the late 1960s, they decided to create certain entities to replace
their influence. This strategic plan led to the creation of several semi
independent Emirates, later to become independent countries and alliances on
1973. Included in this plan was the forced separation of the Bahrain Island
and surrounding region from Iran in 1971, with a fake "referendum" by the
people of Bahrain which never legally took place and its ratification by the
Iranian government which was never legally ratified by the Shah. A minority
Arab government under a local Sheikh ( the Khalifah Dynasty, now challenged
by the Iranian majority) was installed to replace the Iranian sovereignty and
the British colonial navy presence.

In order to prevent a regional military confrontation which has already
been initiated by the Saudi and Emirate armies invading Bahrain and
retaliatory threats by the Islamic Republic in Iran potentially leading to a
major regional war, the MPG party strongly urges all the people of Bahrain
and Iran as well as the international community to support a referendum in
Bahrain, whereby they would decide their future system of government as well
as their national identity.

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Roozbeh Farahanipour of Marze Por Gohar, +1-310-500-8116, roozbeh at marzeporgohar.org