By Adel al-Nil
Al-Seyassah, 4 Oct 2012 – There may be a consensus that Ahmadinejad is the worst president in the history of the Islamic republic of Iran. However, this doesn’t just go for the president and in fact relates to the whole system. If the Iranian government was a characteristic government, it should have played its internal and external role in full extent, not in paradox with the given characteristics of a government. What it has established now, politically, militarily and diplomatically is influenced by unethical methods such as cracking down on opposition and minorities. This is not in line with the very ambitious – yet hollow – speeches and slogans expressed by the Iranian government.
It is necessary for the country’s abilities to not be tainted by child-like and arbitrary measures that reveal the deceptive nature of the slogans and Iran’s immoral and political depth. For this, the measures taken by Iran in torturing its dissidents and persecuting the People’s Mojahedin is in fact amongst the crude political, humane and legal methods. A strong government is not afraid of opposition and does not persecute it in such methods because those struggling for freedom will not lay down their arms, and will not be silenced by state terrorism. In fact, such actions will lead them to fight more for their rights.
Following their removal from the US terrorist list, the PMOI obtained a natural right in their method of resistance and a strong motive to step in the path of their objectives.
Therefore, Iran in its quarrel with the PMOI has no other choice but respecting them, negotiating with them and providing them with their full historical rights. This is the least of what they deserve in comparison to the cruelty and oppression they have suffered during years of exile, murder and crimes.
Iran’s state terrorism against the PMOI and their lives in camps, and their persecution in any tribune and location, is a crime that must be stopped. International organizations must play their role and stop inaction towards the crimes committed against them. These organizations are media wings and tools that make it possible for them to place legal and moral pressure on Iran, and by visiting the PMOI camps they have this opportunity to access the abstruse and horrific cases against them that falls in the nature of these organizations’ activities. Iran needs moral pressure to lift the inhumane pressure on its dissidents.
The PMOI were never terrorist, in fact they struggled for freedom and the right to live. We must provide them support to stop Iran’s crimes against them. They deserve this after all they have suffered.