A Murderous Regime,
Gets Away with Murder and Mocks the World
By Potkin Azaremehr
“Iranian official beat
Kazemi with shoe” was the headline of an article printed in Toronto Star
on July 17. And the French
newspaper Liberation reported, “A Montreal-based photojournalist who
died of brain hemorrhage in an Iranian hospital was beaten about head with
a shoe by a high-ranking Iranian official”. The name of this Islamic
high ranking official of course turns out to be none other than the
notorious former judge and now the Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortezavi. A
psychopath by all accounts; known in Iran as the butcher of the
newspapers. He alone has shut down more than 100 publications and jailed
scores of journalists and writers.
So far nothing out of the
ordinary! Those who follow the events in Iran know this psychopath too
well and know what he is capable of when it comes to murder and brutality.
Then there was the next wily
headline; “Reformist president Khatami orders an enquiry into the death
of the 54-year-old photojournalist Zahra Kazemi”. The word
“reformist” being splattered in every other line of the article like
confetti. As stomach churning as this continued fascination of some
Western journalists with “reformists” in the Islamic Republic of Iran
is, again it is nothing unexpected for those who follow the events in
Iran. We are used to see these gullible and spineless journalists being
overawed by the pretty phrases of the Iranian clerics who audaciously use
deceptive catch phrases like “civil society”, “dialogue amongst
civilizations” etc. for foreign consumption in the face of the harsh
realities inside Iran.
Some of us derided such
empty gestures of Islamic enquiry team for we were too familiar with these
scams of the Islamic Republic. After all we saw what happened when enquiry
committees were set up to investigate the serial murders of Iranian
dissidents and intellectuals five years ago. Tens of prominent dissidents
were murdered in the middle of the night at their homes by what came to be
known as “chain murders”. An enquiry committee was set up. The
murderers got away with it and the lawyers of the victims’ families were
sent to jail! Where else such injustice can happen but in the Islamic
paradise of Iran?
Of course as usual the world
stood silent, the murderous regime got away with it, and some Western
politicians such as the British Baroness Emma Nicholson, Robin Cook, the
“debonair” Dominique de Villepin, the anti-war hero Tam Dalyel and
many more continued to sing the praises of the Islamic Republic and
promoted this medieval regime. Even Colin Powell recently claimed that
there was democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Just like when a bully finds
out that it can get away with bullying and so gets more bullish, so the
turbaned politicians of the Islamic Republic got bolder and bolder every
year. A clique of religious fundamentalists resurrected from the dark ages
continues to mock the rest of the world and consolidate their foothold for
their global ambitions. Latest development in the case of the murdered
photojournalist, Zahra Kazemi, proves this. Guess who is heading the
enquiry team into Zahra’s murder? None other than the Tehran prosecutor
himself, the former judge Mortezavi. Can you believe that? This is indeed
adding salt to the injury. Isn’t this an insult to the victim’s family
and coking a snooze at human rights? What a mockery of justice is this?
Where in the world a murderer is chosen to head an enquiry team into his
own murders? Unbelievable as it may sound it happens in the Islamic
Republic of Iran. That is like asking Hitler to head an enquiry team to
investigate those responsible for the holocaust.
Continued complacency and
silence on the murderous actions of the religious dictatorship currently
ruling Iran has made them so bold that they believe they can get away with
murder, time after time and poke fun at of western journalists and
politicians’ gullibility.
How much longer will the
freedom loving westerners stand by and remain silent and thereby threaten
the future prosperity and freedom of not only the innocent children of
Iran but also their own? Isn’t it clear by now that the Islamic Republic
is heavily funding world wide Islamic terrorism? Is it not time that we
shame these “dashing” politician who still support the thugs of the
Islamic Republic and vote them out of office? Is it not time that we tell
these “reformist”-loving loving journalists to wake up and have a
conscience? For how long should the world listen to the lies concocted by
unscrupulous news corporations such as BBC and unethical journalists such
as John Simpson?
The
Mullahs lied fooled the Iranians to get to power in 1979 and now are
fooling the world to stay in power. Western journalists and politicians,
either through ignorance or greed are their accomplices. The fact that the
story of the murder of Zahra Kazemi did not make headline, that many news
corporations such as BBC originally echoed the Islamic Republic’s lie,
reporting that she felt “ill” during the interrogation and had a
stroke, and the fact that now no one is saying that this enquiry into
Zahra’s murder staged by the Islamic Republic is a sham, is proof enough
that the western media is either being duped or is lying for some
undisclosed reason.
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