SMCCDI-Who Can be Called a Terrorist?

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SMCCDI (Public Statement)
December 12, 2002

Are Terrorists only those individuals or organizations who
maim and kill others just to achieve their own political
goals? Or, are those well-funded states that suppress,
torture, and even kill their own people for the sole
purpose of maintaining their grip on power also terrorists?
If so, then how should such regimes be dealt with?

Without any doubt, since the time that most of the so
called "civilized world" claimed to unite against terrorism
and combat it with their military and police forces,
terrorist regimes that are committing the worst atrocities
against their own people and around the globe are not only
being defended by some Western countries, but are also
being supported by them.

The most obvious example of such a terrorist regime is the
theocracy of the ruling mullahs Iran.

Without doubt, during the past weeks the heart-breaking
images and reports of the Iranian youths murdered by being
hung from cranes, the beating and badgering of the
exasperated Iranian women, and the mass suppression of the
freedom-loving Iranian students have been reflected all
around the world; however, it seems as long as oil flows to
the West and as long as European opportunists such as
Germany can continue doing business in Iran with special
concessions, these executions and suppressions are no moral
obstacle for such countries. Certainly, we all remember the
deceitful policy of "critical and constructive" dialog of
the Germans and their European partners; and it seems that
'sacred Human Rights' are just a negotiating tool against
the current rulers in Iran and other rulers like them. For
as long as the tyrannical regimes in such countries can
fill the pockets of their foreign masters by signing
disgraceful contracts, despite the suppression and murder
of the freedom-lovers and intellectuals that goes on
regularly, Human Rights are not being violated in the minds
of such pretentious European countries; or, at least,
nobody mentions such violations. However, as soon as these
western opportunists start witnessing the true rage of the
oppressed Iranian people, which threatens the interest of
these Western countries, they suddenly rethink a bit of
their policies while still supporting the regime: In order
to quench the people's rage, they foolishly say that they
will also "discuss" the Human Rights issue along with their
agenda of increasing trade. These descendants of Luther,
Rousseau and Kant must think the Iranian people are
gullible and have short memories. How wrong these Europeans
are!

Currently, while some members of the European Union are in
Iran and are to have a meeting on Thursday with the
representatives of the Islamic Republic, the theocratic
regime is continuing its wide-scale suppression of the
opposition and youth, as well as its executions, stoning of
men and women, cutting of limbs (fingers, hands, and feet),
gauging of eyeballs, and whippings. Furthermore, with the
friendly support of Europe- especially Germany- they are
not even trying to conceal these barbaric and disgraceful
acts. Some mullahs are even requesting more frequent public
executions and more widespread suppression! Today, European
self-serving opportunism has gone so far that EU countries
such as Germany declare Iran under the tyranny of the
mullahs is a safe place, and by sticking with this baseless
claim- this utter nonsense- they refuse asylum to many
Iranian asylum seekers.
Without doubt, as long as European governments are willing
to defend any faction of the Islamic Republic regime for
their self interest and cover-up for these invaders of
political power, their claims of battling terrorism are but
empty words.

Certainly, from such realities it can be deduced how
worthless the so-called 'Civilized World' considers the
life of non-Europeans to be.
For, when the barbaric terrorist act of assassinating
political opponents at the Mykonos restaurant took place in
Berlin- in which the brave conviction of a single
prosecutor exposed the key responsibility of the highest
fulcrums of power in the Islamic Republic- there should be
no room for doubt left with the European governments-
especially Germany- that the pillars of power of the
religious regime in Iran are based upon terrorizing and
assassinating the Iranian people.

However, we remember how the EU members reacted with a
political show of pulling out their ambassadors for a few
days, and then sent them back in after they got more
concessions from their puppet mullahs.

It is more than 23 years that along with the crocodile
tears of the Europeans, the theocratic regime in Iran has
not only continued tortures and executions on a daily
basis- not to mention the 'Chain Murder' assassinations of
writers and intellectuals, which were sanctioned by the
highest fulcrums of power in Iran- but has also
assassinated many of the opposition abroad despite them
having received asylum from countries such as Germany,
Sweden, and France- due to the tacit approval and lack of
any real reaction from those countries. To this end,
despite having enough documents and undeniable evidence,
the Europeans have not yet stopped supporting the Islamic
Republic. On the one hand they send known terrorists of the
Islamic republic such as Anis Naghash and Vahid Gorji back
to Iran by private plane, and on the other hand, they let
the true victims of the Berlin conference, the defenseless
translators, rot in the Islamic Republic dungeons. Such
European behavior is still witnessed today as the European
governments continue to ignore the imprisonment of
students, intellectuals, and journalists- placed in even
worst conditions than the translators of the Berlin
Conference- as they have all been sacrificed by the Germans
and the so-called 'Reformists' in the Iranian regime.

The recent visits of the Islamic president to European
countries such as France, Italy, Cyprus, Austria, and Spain
as well as the recent meeting between the regime's foreign
minister and his German counterpart along with the recent
comments made by Germany's head of parliament requesting
the expansion of cooperation between his country and the
Islamic regime are all clear indications of the EU's double
standard regarding the application of the principles of
Human Rights and her opposition to the replacement of the
theocratic regime with a democratic and secular
establishment in Iran.

In view of such facts, do the European governments-
including Germany, France, Britain, Italy, and Spain- not
see themselves as co-conspirators in the crimes of the
mullahs' regime? Are these countries- who consider
themselves promoters of the 'principles of Human Rights'-
not promoting the expansion of the fascist Hezbollah and
regional as well as global terrorism by trying to keep
their self-serving relation with the clerical regime? It
must be observed how valuable a human life and his rights
are to such governments in practice: More or less than a
barrel of cheap stolen oil?

Finally, should the Islamic Republic only be pursued as a
terrorist and criminal, or should its allies also be
pursued?


Long Live Freedom
Established be Secularism


December 12, 2002 (Azar 21, 1381)

The "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy
in Iran" (SMCCDI)