Angelika Beer: International pressure on the Iranian regime has aggravated human rights abuses in Iran!
On January 31, 2008, the European Parliament adopted a resolution, in which it strongly condemned the Iranian regime for its extensive and systematic human rights violations as well as its persistence on carrying out a nuclear program and uranium enrichment activities.
The resolution took note of the “European Court of First Instance’s ruling on December 12, 2006,” which annulled the EU terror label against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and stated, “The ruling of Britain’s Proscribed Organizations Appeal Commission (POAC) on November 30, 2007, ordered the British Home Secretary to immediately remove the PMOI from the country’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.”
Angelika Beer: International pressure on the Iranian regime has aggravated human rights abuses in Iran!
On January 31, 2008, the European Parliament adopted a resolution, in which it strongly condemned the Iranian regime for its extensive and systematic human rights violations as well as its persistence on carrying out a nuclear program and uranium enrichment activities.
The resolution took note of the “European Court of First Instance’s ruling on December 12, 2006,” which annulled the EU terror label against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and stated, “The ruling of Britain’s Proscribed Organizations Appeal Commission (POAC) on November 30, 2007, ordered the British Home Secretary to immediately remove the PMOI from the country’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.”
The adoption of the EP resolution concerning the mullahs’ human rights violations, their nuclear program, and the necessity of removing the PMOI from the list of proscribed organizations, faced hostility from the regime’s lobby at the EP.
The lobby had vigorously attempted to prevent the inclusion of articles in the resolution related to the PMOI. They claimed that although the rulings of the European and British courts with regards to the PMOI’s removal from the terror lists are valid, the EP’s adoption of this resolution is tantamount to endorsing regime change in Iran.
Angelika Beer, and some of the supporters of the appeasement policy at the EP had even intended to table a different resolution, through which they could lay the foundation for the appeasement of the mullahs in Tehran, bring international sanctions and the trend of UN Security Council resolutions against the mullahs to an end, and force heavier restrictions on the main opposition movement against the mullahs’ regime.
However, their intentions failed to materialize with the decisive adoption of the EP resolution against the mullahs. The appeasers, with only a handful of votes, remained in unequivocal isolation.
Photo: On Sunday December 9, 2007, a European parliamentary delegation headed by Angelika Beer, MEP from Germany in Nejat Society in Tehran. Nejat, Edalat, and Habilian, are groups which have been set up by the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) to demonize and vilify the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance.
To be continued
