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Ahmadinejad the Murderer: The Result of 8 Years of Appeasement |
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
 by Hedayat Mostowfi
As the Leader of the Iranian Resistance said; "a viper will never give birth to a dove."
The world was shocked by the release of a photo of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
the new Iranian president-elect, next to a blind-folded American
hostage on the terrace of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979, and
by the testimony of six ex-hostages who recognized him as a leader
among the hostage-takers.
Ahmadinejad was identified by an ex-officer in the Iranian intelligence
ministry, as coordinator of death squads in Evin Prison and the one who
shot more than 1000 political prisoners in the head to finish their
executions, thus gaining him the nickname, "the 1000 Bullet Man." An
Austrian diplomat has stated that Ahmadinejad was a member of the
terrorist squad that assassinated four Kurdish leaders in the Mykonos
Restaurant in Berlin in 1992. Prior to becoming the mayor of Tehran,
when his role in the murder of Dr. Samii, an opponent of this brutal
regime was exposed, he was advised not to become a public figure,
because of his marred past.
Contrary to many in the West, the Iranian people and those who have no
illusions about the Iranian regime, were not surprised at the selection
of a terrorist and a murderer as the next Iranian president. To the
Iranian people, Ahmadinejad is the true face of the theocratic regime
in Iran, a face that Iran’s mullahs tried to hide for sixteen years
after Khomeini’s death with the help of their European allies. As the
leader of the Iranian Resistance once said: "a viper will never give
birth to a dove."
Western countries appear to have quickly forgotten Iran’s role in
hostage takings in Lebanon, definite sponsorship of terrorist
organizations, many bombings including those at the Khobar Towers, the
Marine barracks in Beirut, and those in Argentina, the fatwa to kill
Salman Rushdie, the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, 450 counts
of assassination of Iranian exiles all around the world, and many more
crimes by the Iranian government. Commitment to human rights,
freedom, and democracy were speedily put aside in favor of lucrative
trade deals offered by Iran. Iranian intelligence officials had
free reign throughout Europe to maneuver and assassinate Iranian
exiles. Instead of confronting this terrorist regime, those who were
the victims of Iran’s terrorist attacks, those that had been fighting
against the mullahs and had exposed Iran’s nuclear plans, were
blacklisted. The misguided appeasement policy went so far as to include
bombing the camps of the Iranian resistance in Iraq, as well as the
assault by the French police on Iranian exiles and arrest of Mrs.
Rajavi in June, 2003, all to show a green light to President Khatami.
However, all that the appeasement policy did was to buy time for the
mullahs in Iran to work on their nuclear weapons project, apply more
pressure to the Iranian people, and become more organized for
subversion in Iraq. After sixteen years, Ahmadinejad’s selection is a
clear indication that the era of appeasement is over. Ahmadinejad made
things very clear to the Iranian people when he said: "We did not have
a revolution in order to have democracy!" and to the world: "Soon, the
waves of the Islamic revolution will conquer the world!"
The elections were largely boycotted by the Iranian people, who,
contrary to the European governments, have no illusions about the
fundamentalist-terrorist regime of Iran. Instead, more than twenty
thousand Iranians gathered in Paris on the same day as Ahmadinejad was
declared president-elect of the Islamic Republic in order to declare
their support for the Iranian resistance and its president-elect, Mrs.
Maryam Rajavi. Iranians have already found their solution, fighting for
their rights, for democracy and for freedom.
Now after sixteen years of its appeasement policy, the world has to
deal with the consequences of siding with the Iranian theocratic
government instead of supporting the Iranian people in its fight for
basic human rights. Ahmadinejad -- Revolutionary Guard officer,
terrorist, hostage-taker and executioner -- as the incoming president
of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the final product of the West’s
appeasement policy. What is shocking the West is the bitter
realization that the fundamentalist mullahs neither can, nor will,
reform.
On Iran’s part, Ahmadinejad’s selection is the ultimate declaration of
power for the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei against the Iranian
people and the world. During eight years of the "moderate" Khatami’s
presidency, Iran was able to deceive the world and buy time to finish
off its nuclear projects. However, mounting pressure from Iranians
inside and abroad, and exposure of Iran’s nuclear plans one after
another by the Iranian opposition, completely restricted the mullah’s
maneuvering power to appear "moderate." Now the mullahs have thrown
away the "reform" mask and have declared "waves of Islamic revolution"
for the world, as well as showing their claws to the Iranian people.
This stage will either result is the entrenchment of a
fundamentalist-terrorist government in Iran with nuclear weapons and a
terrorist network all over the world, or complete the overturning of
the Iranian regime by the Iranian people.
It is time for the West to correct its past mistakes, now not only for
the sake of the Iranian people, but to protect the world from the
menace of the godfather of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism. It is
time now to side with the Iranian people and their organized
resistance.
The West has to act decisively and firmly against an Iranian regime
which acts now in total opposition to the civilized world. As the first
step, bans on the Iranian opposition must be lifted. Mrs. Maryam
Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of
Iran, stated in her remarks to the European Parliament said; "We do not
want money or weaponry from the West. We only want it to recognize our
right to struggle for freedom and democracy." There is no need for
military action against Iran, and only an ostrich would opt to continue
the failed appeasement policy. Many Iranians inside Iran and abroad
have long supported a third option as proposed by Mrs. Rajavi: "a
regime change in Iran by the Iranian people and their organized
resistance."
Additionally, Iran should be referred to the United Nations’ Security
Council for its breach of its nuclear agreements. With European support
removed from the Iranian mullahs, and with the power of the Iranian
opposition unleashed, the countdown to the establishment of a
democratic and secular regime in Iran, as well as peace and stability
in the region, will finally begin.
14 July 2005
Hedayat Mostowfi is the Executive Director for nationwide Committee in Support of Referendum in Iran. |
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