It is not only the Iranians' fightBy Mohammad ParvinAn unprecedented campaign has started by Austrians to protest any deals with the regime of Mullahs in Iran and to support the Iranians who fight for a secular and democratic Iran. Many prominent individuals including the Nobel Prize Laureate, Elfriede Jelinek, are among the supporters of this campaign which has been prompted by the upcoming 22 billion Euro deal between the Austrian Oil Management Company (Oestereichische Mineraloelverwaltung - OMV) and the Islamic Regime in Iran (IRI). This campaign is promoted under a non-partisan platform "Stop the bomb" and has launched a petition against deals with the Iranian mullahs. The petition concludes:
"Stop the Bomb Coalition" will hold a conference
at the University of Vienna on May 3rd/4th 2008 under the title of
"The Iranian threat"
In two TV interviews with MEHR, Mrs. Simone Hartmann who is active in
the Stop the Bomb Coalition campaign, emphasized that to be successful
this campaign will not be limited to Austria and will encompass the
entirety of Europe. Hartman stated that, "We should put pressure
on the European governments to stop the policy of appeasement and put
constant pressure on the Islamic Regime."
She is a writer, lecturer, and an anti-Fascist activist concerned
about the Holocaust-denying, anti-Semitic regime in Iran.
It is heart warming to witness that the Iranians struggle for secular
democracy is supported by action rather than words by a group of
prominent Europeans.
Mobilizing the world community is the only way to counter the
appeasing policies dictated by the financial interests of big
corporations. The first step in creating an effective movement
among the freedom loving people of the world is for Iranians to find
ways of reaching them. Our message is clear. The majority of Iranian
people say no to the black and white policy of either military
intervention against Iran or collaboration with a terrorist regime.
The only help that they want from the people of the world is to place
pressure on their governments in order to stop the appeasement policy
and prevent legitimizing the Mullahs ruling in Iran. The message is
simple but the difficult task is being heard and recognized. A
movement like what has started in Austria can help. In the U.S. a
majority of the media, organizations, and prominent individuals are
either silent about the human rights violations in Iran or have been
manipulated by the supporters of the IRI and its lobby groups such as
National Iranian American Council (NIAC). The repressed Iranians need
the aid of American people.
Those American politicians, musicians, actors, writers, labor
unionists, feminists, professors who are disturbed by the daily
imprisonment, torture, body mutilation, and stoning in Iran can
provide this help by starting a movement similar to that in Austria
and mobilize the American people.
Where are you "prominent Americans"? We need to reach the
freedom loving Americans through you and show them how Mullahs have
ruined our beautiful native country. We need to share with Americans
our pain and agony and inform them of how the Islamic regime
suppresses women, abuses children, and tortures and kills human rights
and political activists. The knowledge should be spread of how men and
women are stoned to death for making love. Americans can help Iranians
to fight this backward regime at no cost.
Dear Americans, your children won't be sent to war. Your financial
resources won't be invested in a military confrontation. You just need
to use your voting power and encourage your government to deal with a
ruthless regime effectively. You will make the world safer by stopping
a killing machine that has terrorized the Iranian nation and the
entire world since its inception. The animosity of the IRI with the
free and modern world and its ultimate goal of establishing the
hegemony of the Islamic ideology is not a secret. They have publicly
declared their desire to annihilate Israel and won't show mercy to any
religion if it stands against their goals. A perfect example is what
they are doing to Sunnis in Iraq. Therefore, it is not only the
Iranians' fight. It is a fight for all civilized world that need to
live in peace. Urge your government not to recognize the religious
dictatorship in Iran until its atomic activities and human rights
violation are stopped.
Mohammad Parvin, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor at the
California State University, an Aerospace Specialist, and Founding
Director of the Mission for Establishment of Human Rights in Iran (
MEHR) - http://mehr.org/
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