{"id":211750,"date":"2020-02-12T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=211750"},"modified":"2023-01-21T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T13:25:52","slug":"struan-stevenson-eu-plumbs-the-depths-of-appeasement-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/blog\/struan-stevenson-eu-plumbs-the-depths-of-appeasement-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Struan Stevenson – EU Plumbs the Depths of Appeasement With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In his article former MEP Struan Stevenson condemned EU\u2019s Chief Diplomat travel to Iran<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Mansoureh Galestan<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a012 February 2020.<\/p>\n

Struan Stevenson, a former\u00a0member of the European Parliament representing Scotland,\u00a0in an article published on the\u00a0United Press International on February 11,\u00a0condemned the\u00a0European Union\u2019s policy of appeasement towards\u00a0the Iranian regime.\u00a0He particularly criticized\u00a0the\u00a0<\/a>recent travel of\u00a0Josep<\/a>\u00a0Borrell<\/a>, the EU\u2019s\u00a0High Representative,\u00a0to Iran\u00a0and urged him to side with the Iranian people in their quest\u00a0for\u00a0freedom.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite nationwide protests in November and a violent crackdown by the Iranian regime that resulted in over 1,500 dead, 5,000 injured and thousands arrested, the newly appointed top EU diplomat,\u00a0Josep\u00a0Borrell, visited Tehran on Feb. 3 to express the EU’s ongoing support for the defunct nuclear deal,\u201d wrote Mr. Stevenson.
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While referring to Borrell\u2019s visit to Iran and his failure in bringing up the issue of\u00a0human rights violation\u00a0Mr. Stevenson wrote:\u00a0\u201cIn his press release highlighting the visit, Borrell made no mention of the regime’s downing of the Ukrainian airliner and the subsequent loss of 176 lives. Nor did he mention the murderous attack on young protesters during the November uprising by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the regime’s Gestapo. Indeed, shamefully, he made no mention of human rights whatsoever. Instead, he claimed that his visit would allow him\u00a0\u2018to convey the EU’s strong commitment to preserve\u2019\u00a0the 2015 nuclear deal and to discuss cooperation between the EU and Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referring to the\u00a0condemnation of Borrell\u2019s visit to Iran, especially by\u00a0European lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0and figures,\u00a0Mr. Stevenson wrote:\u00a0\u201cHis visit has attracted widespread condemnation across Europe. A conference involving Italian lawmakers was held in the parliament in Rome on Wednesday, where speaker after speaker attacked Borrell for his failure to uphold human rights and to condemn the theocratic regime’s policy of domestic oppression and aggressive expansionism across the Middle East\u201d
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He urged\u00a0Borrell\u00a0to\u00a0\u201cBreak loose from the dead hand of appeasement that his predecessor Federica Mogherini blindly followed. She was a frequent visitor to Tehran and a slavish appeaser of the fascist theocratic regime, wearing the veil in deference to the misogynist mullahs and even posing for selfies with the turbaned tyrants in the Iranian parliament. She was also an arch-critic of the U.S. administration’s\u00a0reimposition\u00a0of tough sanctions on Iran.\u201d
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https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1224418111853453314<\/p>\n

Referring to the Iranian regime\u2019s deadly meddling in the Middle Eastern countries\u00a0and its adventurism,\u00a0Mr. Stevenson wrote: \u201cBorrell must surely understand that the West cannot condone the Iranian regime’s fundamentalist adventurism in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter eight blood-soaked years in Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s civil war lurches on, backed by the Iranian regime to the tune of over $20 billion and an estimated 2,500 Iranian fatal military casualties so far. The Houthi rebels continue to foment unrest in Yemen, fighting a proxy war on behalf of their Iranian sponsors. The Iranian mullahs fund and control the brutal\u00a0Shi’ia\u00a0militias in Iraq, who have murdered thousands of innocent Sunnis. They provide massive financial support for the terrorist Hezbollah organization in Lebanon and for Hamas in Gaza,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSoleimani had been sent to Baghdad by Iran’s supreme leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei to quell Iraqi protests, which had broken out across the country, with millions of students and young Iraqis demonstrating their\u00a0outright opposition to Iranian meddling in their internal affairs. Soleimani had boasted publicly, “In Iran, we know how to deal with protesters.” Masked gunmen from the Tehran-controlled Popular Mobilization Forces, deployed by Soleimani, then murdered over 270 of the unarmed Iraqi protesters, in a shoot-to-kill strategy similar to the one he had ordered in Iran,\u201d he added, referring to the\u00a0eliminated chief of the\u00a0Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)<\/a>\u00a0Quds Force<\/a>,\u00a0Qassem\u00a0Soleimani.<\/p>\n

In his article, Mr. Stevenson reminded Mr. Borrell and the EU that, \u201cEvery dollar spent in pursuit of their policy of aggressive Islamic revolutionary expansionism is a dollar stolen from the 80 million beleaguered Iranian citizens who are facing, domestically, a collapsing economy, disintegrating medical system, rapidly diminishing groundwater and an environmental crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe IRGC, which controls most of the Iranian economy, brutally crushes anyone who stands in its way. It was Soleimani, as leader of the powerful paramilitary organization’s overseas arm — the Quds Force — who supervised Iran’s direct involvement in every conflict. That’s why he had been listed by the Americans as Iran’s number one terrorist and that was why Trump ordered a drone strike on his convoy at Baghdad Airport\u201d Mr. Stevenson added, referring to the deadly crackdown imposed for years by the IRGC on the Iranian people.<\/p>\n

\u201cBorrell needs to open a new chapter on EU policy in the Middle East. He must accept that appeasement has failed. Europe’s desperation to placate the Iranian mullahs arose directly from the ashes of the Obama administration’s policy. But Iran’s increasing hostility in recent months, with their explosive stealth attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and missile strikes on Saudi oil installations, proves that they are not prepared to abandon their belligerent behavior,\u201d read the article.<\/p>\n

\u201cBorrell must persuade the EU to give up trying to revive former U.S. President Barack Obama’s flawed deal, which never stopped the mullahs’ clandestine attempts to build a nuclear weapon and indeed simply released $150\u00a0billion\u00a0of frozen assets that the regime rapidly used to sponsor their policy of aggressive expansion and international terror,\u201d Mr. Stevenson added.<\/p>\n

Calling the EU appeasement policy and its fruitless efforts to revive the already dead\u00a02015\u00a0Iran nuclear deal with world powers\u00a0\u201cshameful,\u201d\u00a0Mr. Stevenson wrote:\u00a0\u201cIt is shameful to see the EU placing more emphasis on trade and commerce than on human rights. The people of Iran expect Europe and the United Nations to be on their side. They expect their calls for democracy to be taken seriously. Human rights and women’s rights cannot be compromised or marginalized on the pretext of political considerations, trade deals or the flawed nuclear agreement. Obama’s appeasement policy, lamely followed by the EU, is dead in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Europe’s new high representative for foreign affairs and security, Borrell must tell the people of Iran that they have EU support and that Europeans stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their struggle to overthrow the tyrants,\u201d Mr. Stevenson concluded.<\/p>\n

Struan Stevenson is the coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change. He was a member of the European Parliament representing Scotland (1999-2014), president of the Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14) and chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup (2004-14). He is an international lecturer on the Middle East and president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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