Lord Maginnis: The west must listen and with honour on Iran
A British
Lawmaker has written a scathing admonishment of Western
Governments tendency to
“conceal the atrocities of the regime in Iran”.
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, a high-ranking member
of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF)
Throughout the 37
years since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, American policy
has constantly sought to compromise with a supposed moderate element within the
ruling regime. It began with President Reagan’s sale of arms to Iran in exchange
for American hostages; was exacerbated when the Clinton administration wrongly
defined the main Iranian opposition group as a terrorist organization; and has
proceeded to where the Obama administration has endorsed a dubious nuclear
agreement and just last year paid 1.7 billion dollars in “ransom” for Americans
being held prisoner in the country last year.
The latter issue
clearly demonstrates how slowly the West has made amends over the almost four
decades of mishandling its relationship with the Islamic Republic. This is not
to say that we have made no progress. Whereas President Clinton oversaw the
People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) defined as a ‘Foreign
Terrorist Organisation’ (FTO) Mrs Hilary Clinton did correct that mistake in her
former capacity as Secretary of State. Earlier this year, her successor visited
Albania to offer support to its government in taking in MEK members who had
been stranded for years in the former US military base of Camp Liberty, Iraq.
These developments are clear signs of progress in the sense that they seem to reflect a newfound understanding of the Iranian Resistance, at least in terms of the hardships it has suffered and continues to suffer. More still needs to be done in alleviating those hardships. The MEK members were totally relocated from their settlement at Ashraf to Camp Liberty, where they have had to endure a blockade of medical supplies and basic services, been systematically robbed of personal possessions and subjected to a series of five missile attacks carried out by proxy forces of the Iranian regime. More than that, the MEK and even its most casual affiliates continue to be leading targets of violent repression inside Iran, and even of assassinations abroad.
These developments are clear signs of progress in the sense that they seem to reflect a newfound understanding of the Iranian Resistance, at least in terms of the hardships it has suffered and continues to suffer. More still needs to be done in alleviating those hardships. The MEK members were totally relocated from their settlement at Ashraf to Camp Liberty, where they have had to endure a blockade of medical supplies and basic services, been systematically robbed of personal possessions and subjected to a series of five missile attacks carried out by proxy forces of the Iranian regime. More than that, the MEK and even its most casual affiliates continue to be leading targets of violent repression inside Iran, and even of assassinations abroad.
Explanation
Rouhani so called moderate has no
difference with other criminal mullahs
With
the mask of moderation in 3 years, Rouhani has executed 2700 people, which 70
were women
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