Iran: Consequences of Ignoring the Crimes Committed With Impunity by the World's Leading Terror Sponso

LORD CARLILE: INDEED, IRAN IS THE LEADING STATE SPONSOR OF TERROR

Washington Times, Alex Carlile ofBerriew - a Liberal Democrat member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords and co-chairman of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, urged the UN to stop ignoring Iran’s terrorist activities.

He said that just as parents do not reward a child’s bad behaviour, policymakers should do the same. Yet this does not happen with regards to the Iranian regime that has been carrying out human rights abuses for decades. Recently a British charity worker was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on made-up national security charges.

Carlile mentioned that earlier this year an audio file was leaked proving that top-level regime members were complicit in the 1988 massacre which brought the deaths of 30,000 politicalprisoners.
Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the heir-apparent to then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, said in the recording that the death committee should not commit the executions. He said: “In my opinion, the greatest crime committed during the Islamic republic, for which history will condemn us, has been committed by you.” Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri was subsequently placed under house arrest.

During the 1988 massacre, the opposition movement People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, or MEK) was the main target, but people with a casual connection or family member in the PMOI were also executed.