From Tudeh Party of Iran

January 27, 2026  In Defense of Communism

 

The following text is an excerpt from a letter sent by the Tudeh Party to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on the occasion of the latter’s 22nd Congress. 

In the letter, the Tudeh Party refers to the current situation in Iran and expresses its categorical opposition to any foreign intervention in the internal affairs of the Iranian people, who alone are responsible and sovereign in deciding the future of their homeland:

 

TUDEH PARTY: “In Iran, where governance and the political system are founded on “political Islam,” the ruling dictatorship—today one of the longest-standing in the modern world, having lasted longer than the regime of Francisco Franco in Spain—is fully committed to blocking any form of progressive change, whether political, economic, or social. It enforces a violent neoliberal economic agenda combined with a form of aggressive religious fanaticism, both domestically and, until recently, abroad—an approach that has proven disastrous for Iran and its people.

This destructive situation has been further aggravated by the imposition of an inhumane sanctions regime by the United States, which has crippled the economy and struck first and foremost the ordinary Iranian people. It has also been worsened by the utterly criminal and unjustifiable 12-day attack against Iran by Israel and U.S. imperialism in June 2025, which killed hundreds of innocent compatriots and destroyed vital infrastructure, severely weakening the country’s defensive capacity to protect its independence and sovereignty. This constituted a blatant violation of our country’s sovereignty and of international law, and we continue to condemn this assault against our homeland unequivocally and with the utmost intensity.

The “perfect storm” produced by the collapse of Iran’s national currency, the free fall of its economy, the resulting unbearable living conditions for the overwhelming majority of the Iranian population, and the imposition of violent political repression and reactionary social norms has, in recent weeks, led to a major eruption of popular revulsion against the regime. The theocratic dictatorship responded with the harshest repression Iran has witnessed since the dark days of the mass suppression of the opposition in the 1980s. In doing so, the regime once again underscored that it has no answers and no solutions to the multiple crises it itself created through decades of incompetent mismanagement, corruption, and violent repression. Moreover, it has left Iran extremely vulnerable to a future large-scale foreign military intervention—with all that this portends for yet another devastating war for our country, the wider region, and years of bloodshed and instability to follow.

We categorically reject any foreign intervention in the sovereign affairs of the Iranian people. The future course of developments in Iran—political, economic, or social—is the exclusive prerogative of the Iranian people and must remain so. We warmly welcome and commend the principled stance of our esteemed comrades of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on this matter.

Our Party’s position remains that the enduring relevance of the core slogans of the 1979 Popular Revolution, as well as its lasting example, underscores that (i) the struggle against dictatorship for freedom and social justice and (ii) the struggle to defend national sovereignty against capitalist and imperialist designs and foreign intervention go hand in hand as two sides of the same equation.”