Iran expresses concern about deteriorating human rights situation in Europe

What a bloody sham!

I'm aghast and apalled. Iran of all people, finger pointing human rights charges!

Wonder which orifice they're suing to spew out this propaganda...

This borders on sheer lunacy. As if Iran should talk! I believe they spewed similar stupidity just last week or so, only about Canada. The country that bends over backwards, and falls all over itself appeasing every demanding Muslim who shows up on its doorstep. Including self-professed, proud jihadis, like those despicable parasites, the Khadrs. Meanwhile, that Canadian woman of Iranian descent, was beaten to death in Iran. Hypocrites. Pot. Kettle. Black.

Typical Muslim habit of pointing blame elsewhere. Pathetic and immature.

Perhaps Hamid Reza Asefi would care to explain to the Europeans why Iran has not ratified the UN Convention Against Torture? Unlike Iran, every single nation in Europe has ratified the UNCAT.

Here's Amnesty International's report on the human rights situation in Iran for the year 2003:

http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/iran/document.do?id=3ABA252295E8AFD180256E9E005A99CE

And from AI's Countries section:

http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/iran/index.do

Iran is notorious, not only for its human rights abuses, but for the severity of these abuses. The recent case involving the execution of Atefeh Rajabi is a prime example of the cruel and arbitrary nature of the rule of the Iranian mullahcracy.

I wish the people who represent us EU-citizens at the EU-Iran talks had the guts to ask the questions that mr. Spencer asks in his comment.

The follow-up of the article is also interesting. Looks like a threat, doesn't it?

-----Iran-EU commitments interlinked

Iran feels no obligation to observe its nuclear promises if the European Union doesn’t live up to its commitments toward Iran’s nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry spokesman noted.

“If they (Europeans) renege on their commitments Iran will also feel no obligation to act to what it has promised,” Asefi told reporters.

Like feralee, I`ve said again and again; I don`t think the word hypocrisy is to be found in the Arabic dictionary even though the word is from latin, and greek origins. They seem to be masters at turning things around and making muslims the victims no matter how viscous the crime maybe. Of course Asefi`s comments where designed to play to the middleast press. And as usual the hypocrisy that is displayed rather then condemming the radical and violent behavior of muslims within western society only adds what appears more and more increasing fire to the problem. I really believe that Islam is on a greater and greater collision course with western society because the rest of the civilized world is slowly waking up to this fascist movement.

If I'm not mistaken, the Arab word for hypocrisy is related only to religious views. Islam tightly controls all Muslim thoughts and deeds. Thus human rights are only for Muslims and Muslims that don't uphold the Islamic view of human rights are hypocrites.

A discussion of "human rights" in the non-Muslim world by Muslims, such as Iranians, is an accommodation to the Western world to which this message is targeted because in the Muslim world, the view of human rights by the West can have no value because they don't reflect the will of Allah.

The writer is reinforcing the view of Westerners that the Muslim world already holds as well as making an appeal to Western apologists and haters.

Epg makes an important point that newcomers to this blog should be aware of - in the dar al-Islam, only Muslims have human rights. The only rights Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., are entitled to are the limited rights that are GRANTED to them by Muslims. The concept of inalienable, universal human rights is non-existant in Islam.

What a farce! The whole country is apparently suffering from a delusional psychosis. Does anyone with half a brain really believe that these people can be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon? It is as if the gates of the asylum have been flung wide open. If they cannot be contained, then they must be destroyed. It is hard to imagine that we have any other choice.

There is a great little piece on the web describing Taqiyya and Kitman:

http://www.ci-ce-ct.com/Feature%20articles/02-12-2002.asp

The piece calls Taqiyya and Kitman a "holy hypocrisy" legalizing deception and lying. T and K applys to anything the moulahs sign. In other words, their promises are worthless, written or not.

Reagan had it right with the Soviets - trust but verify. With the Iranians controlling verification the E3 agreement is a total fraud.

One of the anti-Michael Moore sites posted an item a couple of months ago about the reactions of Iranian university students to a screening of F9/11. One observer quipped that if Moore was upset about a political leader who lied once, how would he feel about living in a country where the politicians lie every hour.

I can only hope that that the mullahocracy is now whistling in the dark, scared witless that Iran's vast population of young and better educated citizens are ready to throw off the shackles they inherited from their parents who thought they were getting rid of the Shah for a better life.

Only the Iranians in exile can properly list all of the atrocities committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, founded by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Virtually his first law was that reducing the age of marriage for young girls to nine years -- can you guess why? The murders of the leaders of the Jewish and Baha'i communities began at once. In the third week of August, 1979, when all the Iranian Communists (Tudeh) party members, were sent back to Tehran by plane from the Soviet Union, where they had lived in some cases for decades, they were all massacred right on the tarmac. The atrocities continued, and have continued, to this day -- including the decapitation of an elderly Iranian couple, the judicial and extra-judicial murders of Ali Dashti (he died after a particularly unpleasant prison stay), author of "Twenty-Three Years," a book about Islam that did not please the Islamic authorities, and many Iranian writers and intellectuals, including some who, in the Mossadegh-leftist line, at first had joined forces with Khomeini because they underestimated, as everyone always does, the power and hold of Islam, and the cunning of what must have seemed to them to have been a most primitive mullah, who did not stand a chance. Not only did he stand a chance, but as in every Muslmi country, the devout always outnumber the less devout, or at least are always more willing to use their force, not until Islam is tamed will the nightmare situation in Iran come to an end.

For a while, at least, many Iranians will have learned their lesson. Unfortunately, unless the y immediately work to permanently constrain Islam, their own horrible experience cannot be handed down -- and Islam will keep coming back, generation after generation. They will have to work to permanently preserve the memory of what was done under the decades of the Islamic Republic,and then to study the history of Islam, where they will discover that the Islamic Republic was not so much an aberration, as a continuation, of many previous centuries of Musim rule in Iran.

This thread may be related to the "Heroin Traffic Finances Bin Laden" thread appearing on the main JW page.

I read from several sources in the last few months that Iran has the world's highest per capita heroin use in the world. My recollection from the articles is that the addiction rate appraches a full one-third of Iranian society. The articles also inferred that the mullahs, despite their public posture against drug use and addiction, are covertly supporting increased heroin use as a form of social control to keep the masses in a zombie like state and thus more receptive to the the rule of an extreme theocracy. An addict serves his master well.

The articles also cited anecdotal evidence that the mullahs themselves are heavy heroin users. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to try to recover the exact links to these stories (long gone from my browser's history of visited websites), although at least one may exist at the bbc news website.

Several inferences can be taken from these two threads. One is that mullahs are actively supplying heroin into Iranian society as a counter to the vast portion (probably another one-third of Iranians) who firmly oppose their theocratic rule and want a secular westernized society as enjoyed by their more fortunate relatives who have been able to escape Iran and live normal lives in such dirty heathen places like Los Angeles. These latter Iranians are the ones who can bring regime change from within.

Assuming another one-third of Iranians are firmly supportive of the current theocracy because it is what they truly believe, then the one-third of the population that is in a strung out zombie state of hereoin addiction can readily have their opinions molded by the mullahs that feed their addicition thereby preserves a two-thirds majority of the populace in support of the theocracy. It is most likely it is these zombies that provide the mullahs with the bulk of street protest participants that know only two phrases: "Death to Israel, Death to America."

Another inference is that, if the mullahs are covertly supporting heroin use in Iran, then it is Iranian public, i.e. government, money that is paying for all of the street heroin. It could be a neat little trick to funnel large amounts of money to bin laden while making it officially appear as public welfare expenditures. Put a lot of people on the public dole or on welfare, make heroin readily available on the streets, and voila the money is used to buy street heroin and not pomegranates and pistachios. Any smoking gun or direct paper trail of money from the Iranian government to bin laden is conveniently non-existent.

And I thought humor was dead in Iran!

Thanks God there are some comedians still surreptitiously plying their trade.

What a headline!

I laughed for a minute straight, scaring my old cat off my lap with annoyance.

On a more serious note:

I just finsished reading "For the Love of A Child", about the American woman who married an Iranian guy- who took them for a 'two week visit' to his home country and then tried to trap the mother and child there forever. Only the woman's amazing spine of steel and love for her daughter made her dare to escape the theocratic craphole that the former land of Persia has sunk to. And she did.

The place is George Orwell's "1984" without the
'victory gin'. A sad, grey, thought-controlling, anti-sensual, patriarchally-poisoned heap of camel dung posing as an "Islamic Republic" (itself an oxymoron).

Maybe they should be honest and change the name of the country to "Oxy, land of the Morons".

How long will the young, abused, tormented, scourged and down-trodded people of Iran put up with this 'benevolent' brainlock?

Go to any of the websites of ex-Muslims, but perhaps especially those with the word "Iran" or "Persia" in the title, or to www.faithfreedom.org. Look around, and find the lists of atrocities committed in Iran -- hardly one of which has been mentioned in the West. Who, for example, outside the world of ex-Muslims, noted the fate of Ali Dashti -- or even knows who Ali Dashti is, or why he used the title "Twenty-Three Years" for his book on Islam?

You will learn a lot -- what the people in Iran have learned, but not from books, in the last 25 years.

"Iran expresses concern about deteriorating human rights situation in Europe"

Is this some kind of a joke??

Alas, no. Muslims have a long history of manufacturing facts, and ignoring others, to furher the polical goals of islam. Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf anyone?

Here's a little X-Mas cheer from Iran:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4072887.stm

Amid the mullah nightmare, a little "lucid dreaming".

"Hamid Reza Asefi said on Sunday that Iran is seriously concerned about the rise in human rights violations in Europe and especially the rise in anti-Islamic sentiments and the treatment of minority groups."

Can somebody tell me what human right violations. would "stop and search" happen to be one, or "arrest on suspicion of terrorism" be another, and for which police are being lambasted by our own media.

How double bloody dare they!!. Those cesspits in human form, those barbaric cretins!! European governments and PCers have got these arseholes wrapped up in so much cotton wool if they fell from one of their disgusting minaret's they wouldn't get a bruise.
These intolerable snakes wouldn't know human rights if it got up and bit them, and it should exceedingly hard !! SEND IN THE PITBULLS!!

Mr. Spencer, these Iranian Islamofascists aren't hypocritical at all. For them, murdering an obnoxious artist IS a human right--for Muslims, at least--and a very important one.