West should push for Iran regime change
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The only way to make peace with Iran, according to the Obama administration, is to appease its cruel and authoritarian government.
Obama teamed up with members of the UN Security Council and Germany to lift economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for Iran halting its uranium enrichment program.
The mullahs that run Iran impose strict sharia law — cutting off limbs, lashing dissidents and stoning women — in a manner comparable to the brutal campaign of violence brought by the Islamic State (ISIS).
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion insists Canadian companies should be able to do business in Iran.
By engaging with Iran, Western nations are giving legitimacy and power to a deeply regressive regime.
Iran is in the grip of one of the world’s most tyrannical and fundamentalist governments.
he major difference is that ISIS proudly broadcasts its atrocities while Iran conducts its behind closed doors.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran — an opposition movement and a political party — is holding its annual “Free Iran” conference in Paris this weekend.
Last year, over 100,000 people attended this gathering, including hundreds of parliamentarians, such as former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell.
Resistance members can’t operate inside Iran, for obvious reasons, so they assemble in Europe and attract pro-freedom activists and Iranian ex-pats from all over the world.
It want to transform Iranian society and enable democracy, religious freedoms, the equality of men and women, the rule of law and peace.
The party is led by a woman, Maryam Rajavi, and considers itself a parliament-in-exile.
These Iranian dissidents are clear in their message.
They want regime change in Tehran, not more appeasement from the West.
But will leaders like Trudeau and Obama listen?
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