Human Rights, Political Acitivities and Hypocrisy of IRI's Apologists

Human Rights, Political Activities and Hypocrisy of IRI's Apologists

Dear friends,

The attached article discuses the issue of Human Rights and Political activities in Persian. It may also be viewed at http://mehr.org/HR_Political.pdf. The English version will be distributed later. [Persian Attachment: http://iona.ghandchi.com/MEHR/HR_Political.pdf ]

The supporters of the Islamic Regime of Iran (IRI) and its apologists have shown their hypocrisy at its best with regards to the activities of human rights organizations and individuals that go beyond the customary ways of begging human rights from its violators! This is how they operate:

They support the so-called “Reformists” and that is not considered political! They lobby vigorously for unconditional relation with the Islamic Regime and that is not considered political either! According to them if you ignore all IRI’s atrocities and lobby for lucrative deals for oil companies, it is not considered political at all. But, if you talk about the horrible situation of thousands of Iranians who are in jails, tortured, or executed and if you call their abusers as murderers and ask the world community not to deal with them, then your acts become ‘political” and unacceptable.

According to these hypocrites, you only need to oppose the “bag search” at the airports and cry wolf for the “visa ban” to cover up your appeasing gestures and activities with respect to the IRI and pose as the friend of the Iranian and Iranian/Americans.

Their hypocrisy may be summarized as:

Defending a murderous regime is OK as long as you cover it up with the rhetoric of “Dialogue between Iranian and American People” and your stand for luggage search and visa ban. Opposing the human rights violations of the same murderous regime is “Political” and beyond the dignity of Human Rights Groups!

Referring to the terrorism of the Islamic Regime is considered siding with Bush and a sign that you favor bombing Iran! Siding with the Oil Companies and lobbying Bush for unconditional relation with a terrorist regime is OK!

Islamic Regime of Iran violates the human rights of our people on a daily basis. It arrests innocent people, subjects them to torture and kill them. And these are all allowed by its Islamic Penal Code and other Laws that oversight and overrule its constitution. When you ask them not to kill, not to torture and then you expose them for doing so, you are opposing the constitution of the regime. For example, based on the following Articles of IRI’s laws and constitutions, stoning is the law of land and written into its constitution. Therefore, if you oppose the barbaric act of stoning, you are opposing the regime. There is nothing more political than this and that is exactly why you don’t hear one word in condemnation of stoning and other atrocities of the Islamic Regime from those “Human Right defenders” who cry wolf too often!

The “Iranians and Iranian/American for Human Rights” will eventually come together and their strive for human rights in Iran which is along the struggle of Iranians for democracy will prevail. The “Iranian/Americans for Financial Interests” are doomed to fail.

Article 4:

All civil, penal, financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria. This principle applies absolutely and generally to all Articles of the Constitution as well as to all other laws and regulations, and the fuqaha' of Guardian Council are judges in this matter.

Islamic Penal Code:

Pursuant to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Penal Code was passed in 1991. Under the Penal Code, any form of association or friendship between the sexes outside marriage is punishable by flogging, imprisonment, forced marriage and stoning to death. For adultery, the penal code accords stoning or flogging depending on whether the accused is married or unmarried. The law stipulates the size of the stone which must be used in stoning to ensure maximum suffering of the accused. In the punishment of stoning to death, the stones should not be too large so that the person dies on being hit by one or two of them; they should not be so small either that they could not be defined as stones."

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