Statement by 249 Iranian Pro-Peace Initiative Condemning Terror and the Assassination of Iran’s Nuclear Scientists

The Intelligence war with the Islamic Republic and various acts of sabotage — from assassination of senior commanders and scientists to destroying missile and nuclear facilities — that are currently underway, are but a piece of the long chain of damage and destruction imposed on Iranian people, by the Islamic Republic and its nuclear escapades.

We, as active opponents of war, strongly condemn the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, the scientist and a supervisor at Natanz nuclear facility, and such acts of violence, which jeopardize the national security and scientific assets of our country.

Such behavior is in direct violation of formal policy of talks and negotiations, which can produce mutually beneficial results and reduce chances of war.  Terrorism of any kind, regardless of its reasons, must be condemned as it renders all peacekeeping efforts null and void and it only legitimizes counter-violence and further acts of terror.

Iranian Intelligence forces that thus far have made every effort to crackdown on their opponents — even those within the regime – and silence dissenting voices and opposing media; have proven to be completely unable to deal with such threats.

Their inability in this regard raises serious concern about their nuclear plants that may be faced with the same degree of inadequate safety measures thereby causing potential devastating of immeasurable magnitude.   Iran’s internal Security leaders, particularly the Minister of Intelligence must be held accountable for the grave failure in protecting the safety and security of Iranian scientists.

We believe that the country’s security and economic and technological growth can only be ensured by a leadership committed to national interests, alleviation of tensions with neighbors and the international community and above all, making peace with the people of Iran and the transferring of power to them.  The real security of the country could only be established when our leadership abandons policies of isolationism, suppression of citizens and tension building; and instead moves toward reducing enemies and adding friends, engages in peaceful and effective partnerships across the region, opens the doors and allows the political climate to expand and the country’s economy to breath again and connect with the rest of the world.

While we condemn the terror of the Iranian scientist – committed by any person or government – we ask all democracy-seeking social and political activists to openly express their opposition to all acts of violence, terror or tension building; while they also draw a line of separation between people and the regime’s nuclear adventurism with emphasize on undeniable right of Iranians on using peaceful atomic energy.   We also ask the Islamic Republic to take the first step in preventing the sanctions as well as hidden or open threats of war, by suspending Uranium enrichment.
Also we warn to the foreign groups who despite the apparent opposition whenever their interest demand, they apply terrorist approach, Iranian people are sensitive about keeping the life of innocent and civil citizen and also do not tolerate any action which target Iran national security.

Arash Abadpour, Behzad Azarhooshang, Kamal Azadi, Farshid Azarinoush, Ahmad Azad, Roshanak Asteraki, Saeed Aganji, Mehrdad Ahmadzadeh, Hamed Ebrahimi, Hamed Ebrahiminejad, Abdollreza Ahmadi, Behzad Ahmadinia,Maryam Ahari, Jaafar Ardabili, Abolfazl Ordokhani, Mohammad Esteki, Azadeh Assadi, Rashid Esmaili, Morteza Eslahchi, Farid Ashkan,Amir Hossein Etemadi, Bijan Eftekhari, Ali Afshari, Maryam Akbari, Donja Akbari, Mohammad Javad Akbareyn, Nasii Emami, Amirreza Amir Bakhtiyar, Manouchehr Amini, Mehdi Amini, Assieh Amini, Fariba Amini, Shahin Anzali, Mohammad Ansari, Solmaz Eikder, Rahim Bajgholi, Farya Barlas, Abdol-ali Bazargan, Iraj Bagherzadeh, Hossein Bagherzadeh, Parvin Bakhtiyarnejad, Ehsan Badaghi, Meghdad Barimani, Vahid-ol-din Bozorgtabar Bai, Khosro Bandari, Sirus Bongiyan, Maziar Bahari, Kamiyar Behrang, Behrouz Bayat, Abbas Bidgoli, Shahrnoush Parsipour, Mahnaz Parakand, Behzad Parnian, Katayoun Pezeshki, Saeid Pourheydar, Bijan Pirzadeh, Saeed Peyvandi, Habib Tabrizian, Ali Taghipour, Farshid Tehrani, Nayereh Tohidi, Amir Hossein Tavassoti, Mohammad Ali Tofighi, Kianoush Tavakoli, Majid Tolai, Farshad Tomaj, Setareh Sabety, Mehdi Jami, Jahanshid Javid, Mohammad Hossein Jaafari, Reza Jaafari, Reza Jaafarian, Farzandeh Jalali, Mehdi Jalali, Mohammad Jalali Cheymeh, Arash Janati Atai, Pooya Jahandar, Gissou Jahangiri, Ali Haj-Ghassemi, Saeed Habibi, Mehrdad Hariri, Milad Hosseini, Bijan Hekmat, Abbas Hakimzadeh, Alireza Khademi, Nasser Khodayari, Sara Khorambin, Salar Khosravi, Mostafa Khosravi, Arya Khosravi, Mahraveh Kharazmi, Foad Dana, Mohammad Javad Dardkeshan, Mehrdad Darvishpour, Azadeh Davachi, Sohrab Razaghi, Ehsan Rasouli, Somayeh Rashidi, Amir Rashidi, Sheydeh Rezai, Pouria Raha, Erdivan Roozbeh, Maryam Rouzbehani, Mohsen Zamani, Mahin Zandi, Geev Zandi, Hamid Zangeneh, Hossein Sobhan-elahi, Foad Sojoodi Farimani, Nasim Sarabandi, Amir Saraji, Mehdi Saeedpour, Sara Semnani Rahbar, Sepideh Sohrabi, Saeedeh Soharbi, Reza Siavoshi, Heeman Seyedi, Rahim Shambiyati, Karim Shambiyati, Noushin Shah-Mohammadi, Mansoureh Shojai, Hassan Shariatmadari, Rouhi Shafii, Mohammad Sadeghi, Behnam Saremi, Arash Saleh, Masoud Salehi, Karan Sadr, Hamid Sadr, Farzan Safaiyan, Bijan Safsari, Siavash Safavi,
Masoumeh Zia, Arsalan Ziaii, Hassan Talebi, Ali Tabatabaie, Meysam Tahmasebi, Shohreh Assemi,  Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, Gholam Abbasi, Mohammad-Saber Abbasian, Mazdak Abdipour, Nazli Araghi,  Mehdi Arabshahi, Seyed Hadi Azimi, Khosrow Alaf Akbari, Kazem Alamdari, Shahed Alavi, Mehrnoush Ali-Aghai, Reza Alijani, Ershad Alijani, Hossein Alizadeh, Abtin Ghafari, Mehdi Gholami, Manouchehr Fazeli, Amir Hossein Fotoohi, Azar Fakhr, Pouyan Fakhrai, Tayaz Fakhri, Maryam Farzam, Hasasan Fereshtiyan, Mansour Farhang, Shahab Feyzi, Akhtar Ghassemi, Ali Hossein Ghazizadeh, Reza Ghazinouri, Mohsen Ghaem-Magham, Kambiz Ghaem-Magham, Aida Ghajr, Jaafar Ghadimkhani, Reza Ghoreyshi,Mehdi Gholizadeh Aghdam,Seyed Ahmad Kazemi Mousavi, Morteza Kazemian, Hadi Kahalzadeh, Aziz Karamlou, Omid Koshtkar, Ali Keshgar, Kianoush Kalantar, Ali Kalaei, Alireaz Kananroo, Elnaz Kian, Alireza Kiani, Taghi Kimyai Assadi, Samaneh Golab, Amir Hossein Ganjbakhsh, Hamid Mafi, Reza Mobayen, Navid Mohebbi, Sousan Mohammad-Khani Ghiyasvand, Majid Mohammadi, Daniel Mohammadzadeh, Amir-Mohsen Mohammadi,  Pouyan Mahmoudian, Ahmad Medadi, Farkhondeh Modares, Ali Mostashari, Tourab Mostofi, Nariman Mostafavi, Mohammad Motamedi-Mehr, Yasser Massoumi, Abdolhamid Massoumi Tehrani, Amir Memarian, Hassan Makarami, Peyman Malaz, Parvin Malek, Morteza Malek-Mohammadi, Emar Maleki, Roya Maleki, Mehdi Momken, Ahmad Montazeri, Ashkan Monfared, Ali Mohtadi, Faribroz Mehran Adib, Behnaz Mehrani, Behzad Mehrani, Homyaoun Mehmanesh, Seyed Davood Mousavi, Reza Movaseli , Ziba Mir Hosseini, Ahmad Mir Fakhrai,  Fereshteh Naji Habibzadeh, Ebrahim Nabavi, Roja Najafi, Kazem Najafi, Mojtaba Najafi, Arash Naraghi,  Raziyeh (Pari) Neshat, Mazdak Nasiri, Borghan Nezami Narajabad, Ali Nazari, Mohammad Sajad Naghavi, Fereydoun Naghibi,
Shervin Nekoii, Morteza Negahi, Shiva Nojo, Mehdi Nourbakhsh, Shaheen Nourbakhsh, Farhad Nouri, Sojad Nikayin, Mohammad Reza Nikfar, Ali Nikoii, Nader Hashemi, Vida Mashayekhi, Ali Vaez, Farzn Vahdat, Alex Vatankhah, Sojad Vis-Moradi, Mehdi Yarmohammadi, Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari