The mullahs’ regime ruling Iran has an absolute desire for “hegemony” over the people in all religious, political, professional, and social affairs. Over more than four decades, this quest for hegemony has come at the cost of various forms of censorship, lies, and crimes.
These characteristics break loose when it comes to the age of the internet. Why? Because the energy and minds of people are freed from the grip of a totalitarian regime, no longer yielding to censorship, lies, and clerical domination. This situation, with such dynamics, has sparked a confrontation between society and the regime. In other words, there is a fierce battle and struggle underway, aiming to transition from this stage to an “Iranian Renaissance.”
This ongoing battle over the internet has ignited a confrontation between the people and the regime over filtering. The clerics seek to maintain their absolute “hegemony” by imposing filtering, while the people aim to uproot and destroy this hegemony along with all its manifestations and tools.
The governmental clerics aim to guarantee filtering as a mechanism to prolong the regime’s rule, while the people, led by a youth-driven resistance to reactionary forces and all forms of dictatorship, strive to break the regime’s protective barriers and liberate Iran from its occupation.
The mullahs’ regime wishes to confine people within the black holes of their minds, crafting a promised paradise rooted in clerical ideology and a theological vision of salvation. Meanwhile, the people and the Resistance Units, rejecting all forms of regression, superstition, ignorance, and servitude, aim to shape their destiny with awareness, willpower, and free choice.
Through filtering, the regime tries to imprison the vast and ever-surging world of knowledge and information within its reactionary framework, so that this dynamic world does not dismantle its hegemony.
Is this comprehensive and relentless struggle currently underway in Iran confined to its own battleground? This struggle, with all its widespread impacts, simultaneously liberates the minds and energies of the Iranian people and infiltrates all the structural crevices of the regime. This infiltration exacerbates internal conflicts within the regime, pushing it toward confrontation. The outcomes of these confrontations eventually feed into the collective reservoir of the Iranian people’s resources for a final triumph over the clerical system.
Consider the latest example of the impacts of this struggle between the people and the regime. On January 16, the state-run Ham-Mihan newspaper wrote, “Filtering aims to monopolize the dissemination of expression and messaging for groups of power and wealth. The filterer is the enemy of the concept of citizenship and human rights. Filtering targets the foundations of new human life. In essence, filtering is against concepts such as justice, democracy, equality, and fundamentally with the concept of citizenship. History shows that anyone who opposed these concepts has undoubtedly fallen.”