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Home >> Middle East >> Iran The Humiliating Price of Appeasing Iran Prof. Sharam Taromsari, Ph.D. - 5/15/2008 In a unique action taken by prominent politicians, including a former home secretary, a former Solicitor General and a former Law Lord of the United Kingdom against the British government, Britain ’s highest legal authority handed out a humiliating ruling against the British Government. This ruling reiterated an earlier ruling by the Proscribed Organisations Appeals Commission (POAC) in which they described the British government’s attempt to list the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) as a terrorist organisation as “perverse”. The 32 page judgement was far stronger and goes beyond what the POAC determined in November 2007. Closer scrutiny of this judgement undermines the process in which the British decided to put the PMOI on its terrorist list.
As well as legal implications, this ruling will have many far reaching political implications for the British government. In this case, the British government stated that, Presumably, what the British Home Secretary (Home Affairs Secretary) meant to do was to support the Iranian regime in their global fight against terrorism! This is an absurd statement, seeing as time after time the British Prime Minister himself stated Iran ’s role in the support of terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan , Lebanon and elsewhere. This is a major contradiction that the British foreign policy decision makers fail to explain. The British and American troops in Basra and elsewhere in Iraq are targeted by the Iranian made and supplied weapons and many groups in Iraq act as Iranian proxies. Afghan authorities admitted that it is the Iranian supplied IEDs and weapons which hampers the efforts by the Afghan and the US to bring about some form of normality to that country. In Lebanon, Hezbollah continues her campaign with Iranian financial support and blessings. Iran ’s military assistance is a major factor that has helped Hezbollah to conduct its rocket attacks against Israel for so long. In Gaza , Hamas acts as Iranian proxy and many of its members were trained by Iran ’s Revolutionary Guards Corps. Hamas is the major obstacle for peace between Israelis and Palestinian Authority. Therefore for a British Home Secretary to suggest that Iran is a member of the international community which is committed to war on terrorism is an attempt to deny the facts and borders insanity. Simply, by putting the PMOI in the terror list, the British government tried to help prolong the life a regime which is not only an enemy of the Iranian people but also is a major source of conflict and insecurity in the Middle East. They simply tried to buy time for the regime by denying the right of the Iranian people and their resistance lead by the PMOI to bring about change in Iran. The ruling by the highest courts in United Kingdom was a deliberation of justice. The most qualified judges in the UK, who were impartial and had no political agenda, after examining all the evidence provided by the British government, decided that the PMOI should not have been on the list of terrorist organisation in the UK. This ruling therefore justifies the PMOI and their agenda for democratic change in Iran. The injustice which was done to the PMOI is the same that is being done to people of Iraq and all those who are targeted by the Iranian regime and their proxies all over the world. The British and American soldiers who die in combat in Iraq are also victims of the silence against the Iranian regime and their actions in that country. Iranian efforts to destabilise Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Palestinian Authorities also remain unpunished. For as long as the international community is not prepared to stand up to Iran and choose to appease them, this injustice will continue. They must side with the Iranian people and their desire for change. Otherwise the alternative is a regime which pursues its policies through terror, violence and instability in the world’s most volatile region. The Iranian regime must not be seen as a partner for peace but the cause of insecurity and mayhem. As the president elect of the Iranian resistance Mrs Maryam Rajavi has stated numerous times, the real partner for peace is the Iranian resistance and people of Iran . Their inspirations are the same values that the international community adhere to and have fought for. The same values that many democracies have fought for and made sacrifices for. The desire for change is not terrorism and the most important message of this ruling is that justice can not be sacrificed in the name of economic and political interests and diplomacy. It is now time for the EU and the US government to follow suit and by taking the PMOI off their terror lists, acknowledge the right of the Iranian people for democratic change in Iran.
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