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Iran-UK: Iranian regime is centre for terrorist network threatening whole world |
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Friday, 02 December 2005 |
 NCRI – In his opening remarks at the SYMPOSIUM OF PARLIAMNETARIANS
& JURISTS in the House of Lords on November 29, Lord Archer of
Sandwell QC questioned the logic of proscribing the People’s Mojahedin
Organization of Iran as a terrorist organization and said: “The PMOI
have suffered from the terrorism and the brutality of the Iranian
regime more than anyone. 120,000 of their members have been executed or
assassinated. So who are the terrorists?” The following are excerpt of
his speech:
For some 27 years, the Iranian people have lived under a regime which
has denied them any respect for human rights. It’s a regime that
governs by brutality and is probably the only regime in the world which
condemns children to death. Which only a few months ago, publicly
hanged a 16 year old girl and sentenced a 13 year old girl to death,
because they didn’t comply with the rules imposed by the mullahs on
women. A regime which whipped a 14 year old boy until he died, for
eating in the street during Ramadan.
A regime which has imposed death sentences on more than 100 people
during the four months since the new president was elected. A regime
that has been condemned on more than 50 occasions by United Nations
bodies for its total indifference to human rights and that is the
business of the whole global community. Because the world now
recognises that when a government treats its own citizens in that way,
it isn’t just a private affair between the government and the citizens.
If freedom and dignity are denied anywhere, then they are at risk
everywhere and unless the human family cares for all its members, then
all its members are in danger. So for that reason, even if it stood
alone, we can probably call on the world to support the people of Iran
in their struggle for freedom.
The mullah’s don’t confine their terrorism within the borders of Iran.
They can hardly complain that what they do isn’t the business of the
whole world, when they have made it the business of the world. This
country has reason to know that many years ago when the ayatollahs
promulgated a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, a British citizen, living
in Britain but declaring it the duty of all Muslims to kill him. Now
that falls squarely within any possible definition of international
terrorism.
In 1983 when the regime arranged for the suicide bombing of a United
States naval base in Beirut, that was terrorism by any conceivable
standard. Recently, ‘Time Magazine’ published its findings about the
involvement of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in attacks on coalition
forces in Iraq, and the world was forced to concern itself with
international terrorism. And on the 6th of October, even our own Prime
Minister had to warn the regime in Iran from supplying explosives in
Iraq for attacks on British troops. Now the process is becoming more
sinister.
The Iranian regime is seriously embarked on a nuclear weapons
programme, in flagrant breach of its treaty obligations. It is the
centre of a network of terrorist activities which threatens the whole
world and the world will be safe only when the people of Iran are safe
and that’s why it defies reason and common sense when those who protest
of this terrorism, who often at great personal risk work to bring the
terrorism to an end are labelled by the British government as
terrorists. The PMOI have suffered from the terrorism and the brutality
of the regime more than anyone. 120,000 of their members have been
executed or assassinated. So who are the terrorists?
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