The Committee for the Rights of Students And Sufis in Iran

(CRSSI)

For Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood

International-solidarity & non violent resistance

The committee for the rights of the students and Sufis in Iran was founded in the
beginning of 2009 in order to give a voice to the suppressed Iranian people, and to protest
against human rights violations as well as to highlight and to object against the oppression of
the Sufis.

In the year following the contested elections of June 12th, 2009, the regime of the Islamic
Republic of Iran has evolved into a totalitarian regime that holds power inside of Iran on one
hand through the use of brutal repression against its population, and on the other exports
chaos and religious fascism to the outside world.

The committee has consequently extended its objectives to:

• Act against and raise the world’s attention to the brutal human rights abuses in Iran.

• Raise western awareness about the agenda of the Iranian regime to export their own
brand of fanatic and intolerant version of Islam to the Western free world, under the
guise of religious and cultural activities.

• Stress the importance of a unified resistance movement against the Iran Regime and to
pave the way for a peaceful and non-violent transition towards a free and democratic
form of government.

Who are the members of ‘The Committee for the Rights of Students and Sufis in Iran’?
The committee is active in different western countries in Europe, USA as well as in Canada.
Its members include second and third generation Iranians who were born in the west, Iranian
exiles and western citizens. The committee is acting in accordance with respect for individual
freedom as written in the United Nations constitution of Human Rights. The committee is
cooperating with NGO`s such as Human Right Watch, Amnesty International, Reporters
Without Border, international media, press as well as governmental institutions.

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The committee represents about 10 million Sufis and students in Iran, which forms a
significant group of the resistance movement.

What is the vision of the committee?

The Iranian people can take pride in their very rich culture and history. This culture and
history has left Iranian society with a fertile soil full of deep essential human values.
Therefore, if the Iranian citizens acknowledge that their mutual interest lies in joining forces,
they can bridge their differences by reaching into their rich cultural and ethical foundations.

Mystical ideas and old traditions based on human values of tolerance are deeply rooted in the
Iranian culture and form the basic genes of the daily lives of many Iranians. Each Iranian can
identify him/herself with these kinds of ideas and traditions. One of these traditions is Sufism.
Sufism with its Gnostic traditions is based on high moral, ethical and spiritual values that are
characterized by a peaceful, tolerant and noble attitude towards every human being
irrespective of race, religion or gender. For Iranians, poems of Hafez, Sa'adi, Rumi and other
Sufi poets are deeply embedded in their national consciousness, and their messages of peace
and tolerance are as familiar to them as the words from the Qu'ran. And for millions of
Iranians, young and old, the works of these poets form a guiding light in their lives.

Therefore, this very old tradition has the capacity to unite the people within the resistance
movement; and thus inspire them to transcend their differences and enable them to form the
basis of one large united movement towards freedom.

What are the main activities of the committee?

1. Actions of solidarity
The committee would like to make an appeal to the citizen of the western community to
build up a powerful force of international solidarity and to join peaceful actions in
fighting injustice and human right violations in Iran.
The committee organizes street demonstrations and actions such as: a Face for Freedom
in Iran” and “a Face for Human Rights in Iran” in cities across the West in solidarity with
the Iranian society against the human rights violations in Iran.
2. The committee is advocating for a powerful broadcasting station in order to provide the
people inside the country the truthful and uncensored information about what is
happening inside and outside the boarders of their country.
3. The committee tries to bring together and to coordinate, as far as possible, the activities
of the Iranian communities, outside and inside of Iran, by giving an international voice to
the activities of the students and Sufis in Iran.
4. The committee organizes conferences and offers a platform for experts who through
speeches aim to increase the awareness of the western citizens, and analyse the current
situation in Iran as well as to help the spread of factual information, in order to bring
together and coordinate the different Iranian communities outside of Iran.
5. The committee is also an active advocate for restricting cooperation with the Iranian
regime as much as possible in an attempt to isolate its leaders

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6. The committee highlights and fights the ongoing restrictions on the rights of Iranian
citizens, and the regime’s shameless incursions into private lives of its people which the
regime’s leaders try to justify by misuse of religion (Islam) in order to hide their real
objective which is to totally control everything and everybody.
7. The committee would like to raise public awareness in the West about the projects, plans
and hidden agenda of the Islamic Republic through which they seek to export their
religious fascism into the free world.* This transportation is inherent to their ideology of
becoming the leading power of a new world order. The committee regards this as a
serious threat to the freedom of rest of the world.

The final objective

The committee would like to help, by providing a way for the voice of freedom and human
rights in Iran to be heard outside the country. The committee favours the process through
which a referendum can be held in Iran under the watch of the international community, so
that Iranians can decide their own political future.

More information about ‘the Committee for the Rights of Students and Sufis in Iran’

The charter of the committee as well as reports, videos and photos of the committee’s action
can be found at http://crssi.blogspot.com/

Other related websites:

www.insideofiran.com/en
www.mehriran.de

* charter 11/06/2010

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