Iranian Response to European Parliament - Iran Delegation's
Our Response to European Parliament - Iran Delegation's letter has been sent out to the Members of Delegataion, and CC'd to EP President, EP offices, some of the U.S. Senators & Congressmen, & the office of Reza Pahlavi. The following is the copy of the submittal. Thanks to everybody involved in all this. - Mansur Rastani
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From: Mansur Rastani <mansurrastani@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:01 PM
Subject: Response to EP-ID Letter
To: Chair <tarja.cronberg@europarl.europa.eu>, Member <kathleen.vanbrempt@europarl.europa.eu>, Member <cornelia.ernst@europarl.europa.eu>, Member <kurt.lechner@europarl.europa.eu>, Member <marietje.schaake@europarl.europa.eu>, Substitute Member <barbara.lochbihler@europarl.europa.eu>
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11, 07, 2011
RE: EP Iran Delegation, Response to Barbara Lochbihler’s Letter
To: Barbara Lochbihler (x-chair & current subs. member)
CC: Tarja Cronberg (Chair) ,Kurt Lechner (member), Cornelia Ernst (member), Marietje Schaake (member), Kathleen Van Brempt (member)
From: Undersigned
Dear Mrs. Barbara Lochbihler,
Thank you for your response to our open letter to EP Iran delegation. We are fully aware of your new position as Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament, and recognize your continued work with the EP Iran Delegation as a substitute member.
In your letter you referred to the record of EP Iran Delegation on criticizing numerous issues in Iran, in particular the dire human rights situation, during its term of service. That is exactly our point, how many censure resolution against IRI for violation of human rights have been moved by EP, UN and human rights watch offices across the globe in recent decades? When we look at the current grim picture of the human rights situation in Iran it clearly indicates that the circumstances have been worsening every year. In other words the world communities should have reached to this point by now that condemning and carping IRI won’t do any good anymore. It is time for the world communities to declare the illegitimacy of the IRI government.
You stressed in your letter that if you want to help the people of Iran to bring about change, you need to keep in touch with those alternative players in Iranian society, and therefore meetings with opposition representatives have been organized. Our impression from your statement “alternative players and opposition representative” leads us to Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi. Allow me to prove to you that these two individuals have a lot less leadership among Iranians than is publicly projected and in fact they have lost their standing among oppressed Iranians and certainly do not represent the genuine Iranian opposition groups any longer.
After the forged election in June 2009, Iranian movement mainly headed by our young generation has shaken the foundation of totalitarian regime of mullahs. They raised their voice for freedom and against the imposed tyranny but they were faced with the brutal and barbarian forces of the regime that were cracking down heavily on dissent. Thousands of our brave young men and women stood and shielded their chest against Islamic regime’s bullets, fought against political incarceration, torture, rape, and for all their basic freedom and human rights. While so many of them have dedicated their lives and irrigated the tree of freedom with their blood, was little to no sign of Mousavi and Karroubi in the battlefield. Summer of 2009 Mousavi and Karroubi’s role in the uprising was minimal, only in name and in coordinating a small bit lesser strife against the Iranian people. In fact, for more than two years after the counterfeit election they betrayed the people and left thousands of demonstrators under 30 years of age alone in the streets to be torn apart by the hyenas of IRI. The young generation has realized that these “non-leaders” are not ready to fight for people as much as they are willing to fight to save their Islamic ideology.
In 2009 Mousavi, in his 17th statement, admitted publicly he is loyal to the Islamic regime, moreover announced that any reform will only be possible within the framework of Islamic Guardian Council. Under current oppressive conditions, any claim of democratic lifestyle is unreasonable and a farce given the framework of Islamic Constitutional Law and the Guardian Council infrastructure. Even though the protest in Iran was empowered through mass dissatisfaction with the election results the movement became quite radical very quickly and people started chanting “Mousavi is an excuse, the entire regime is targeted”, “Death to the Islamic Regime”, and “independence, freedom, Iranian republic”. This was a clear message to the government that Iranians no longer want an Islamic regime; rather they are pursuing a secular democracy. The regime felt so threatened by this slogan that made Mousavi to come out and say “people’s slogan must be Islamic Republic, not one word more and not one word less.”
For the purpose of avoiding any clash with the IRI forces and their own personal safety, the people used Mousavi and Karroubi as masks to hide behind them so that they can demonstrate for liberty. Unfortunately, the alliances of world powers didn’t hear the true voice of Iranian movement; rather they continued providing the necessary support for the tyrannical regime of IRI to make sure the regime’s cracking down on the protesters is a success. On numerous occasions during 2010 Mousavi and Karoubi both admitted that the people are not following them anymore and in fact they are the ones who follow them. Today the issue at the forefront of Iranian politics is not about the election results, nor is it about either candidate, it’s about Regime Change. However, the international communities led by Western Powers have still shown their reservation to recognize the Iranian dilemma and on the contrary have strived to serve to strengthen the so-called Islamic reformist stand rather than help the grounds for “Regime Change”.
The disrepute for Mousavi and Karroubi goes beyond their lack of love and respect for their people when we see they both have criminal records and are responsible for the murdering of tens of thousands of young Iranian students that have occurred during their terms of services to IRI. Geoffrey Robertson, an attorney in London who did a report on Mousavi entitled “ Iran’s Hero Was a War Criminal” says the freedom fighters’ leader was responsible for the mass execution of political prisoners. His Full report, “The massacre of political prisoners in Iran 1988” is available from the Abdurrahman Boroumand Foundation. Based on another report by Pierre Tristam, a writer, editor, lecturer, and a publisher in U.S., entitled “Profile: Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iran’s Radical Turned Reformist”, Mousavi has defended the taking of American hostages, his reputation for radicalism was undiminished, he had a direct role in the arms-for-hostages scandal known as the Iran-Contra affairs, he neither liked nor trusted Americans, and he opposed to suspending the country’s nuclear-enrichment program. In this report the author adds that the characterization of Mousavi being as “reformer” and a “moderate” are at best premature and likely outright fabrications. In point of fact the criminal records of Mousavi et al are reflected as the major drawbacks contributing to their lack of legitimacy as representatives to Iranian oppositions.
The regime reformers inside Iran, so-called Islamic green led by Mousavi and Karoubi can speak for those minor groups inside or outside the country who are seeking reforms within the current ideological government, but under no circumstances they may represent the Iranian opposition across the globe who have been risking their lives to independently unify their breadth of small groups and reach western and international leadership in pursuing a secular democracy. The lobbyists for these Islamic reformers who have been campaigning for Mousavi and Karoubi in Europe and Washington have been supported financially by Rafsanjani, the fourth President of IRI, whose strategic resolution & pronouncement behind the curtain has profoundly contributed to the survival of the regime for more than 3 decades.
Due to the oppressive atmosphere and the lack of freedom inside Iran and current disunion among the oppositions outside the country, the practice of political campaigning by people and different political groups and parties have not been possible. Regardless, this lack of privilege for Iranian oppositions should not be contemplated as a justification for EP Iran Delegation to be convinced to accept Mousavi et al as the representatives of Iranian opposition and start collaborative dialogue with them. If EP Iran Delegation is really committed to the people of Iran and respects for what they pursue, then it is required for the delegation to be willing to spend the time in discovery of concerted dialogues that are plausible to Iranian oppositions. The lack of alternative players should not be pondered as an obstacle in this way. Besides, alternative government is supposed to be established through free election after the fall of IRI.
Considering the current dilemma that the people of Iran are facing with, Iranian oppositions collectively need to have a “Representative Speaker”, someone who can be in position to convey the people’s message to the world communities. Such speaker will not function in a institutional capacity but performs politically as the “Representative & Speaker of Iranians” until the fall of IRI. Oppositions from any ideological and political group and party inside and outside Iran can stand united behind such Representative Speaker. I bring to your attention that among the undersigned of this letter there are people who are not pro monarchy and will vote for a republic government in the future free Iran.
Presently, the most prominent candidate for this position is Reza Pahlavi, the son of Mohammad Reza Shah, who is very well familiar with policy both in the U.S. and EU and is considered a capable speaker. In an article dated February 16, 2011 entitled “Iran’s Crown Prince calls on West to Support anti-government Protest”, Damien McElroy, the Foreign Affairs Correspondent for Daily Telegraph reports the following: Although Reza Pahlavi supported Mr Mousavi and Mr Karroubi in 2009, he no longer believes that satisfactory change is available from within the Islamic system. “They have tried to liberalize within the system ad nauseam but to no avail. The regime is unreformable,” he said. “Mousavi and Karroubi might still be transitional figures but they cannot spearhead the transformation that is acceptable to the people. The young people of Iran are no longer content to take the lesser of two evils.
Reza Pahlavi on numerous occasions has mentioned that he has no intention of pursuing his monarchy in exile and his diplomatic fate will be determined by the people of Iran in the future free election when IRI is no more in power. In an Human Events Online exclusive interview, Reza Pahlavi says ”I know what my function is today, and my function today is to be a catalyst that promotes unity as opposed to being an element that brings polarity. My role today is not institutional, it's political. My role today is not someone who will be a symbolic leader under that institution, but a national leader that is fighting for freedom... My job today is to be a liberator, as opposed to representing an institution.”
As such, the undersigned with respect to millions of unsung Iranians strongly encourage EP Iran Delegation to recognize Reza Pahlavi as a “Representative & Speaker of Iranians” and engage opening dialogue with him.
CC: President of European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek,
CC: Offices of European Parliament
CC: Office of Reza Pahlavi
CC: U.S. Senators & Congressmen:
Mark Kirk, Kristen Gillibrand, Robert Dold, Ted Deutch, John McCain, Joseph Lieberman
Respectfully,
Undersigned:
1. Mansur Rastani, PhD, University Professor, USA......
Source: http://did-persian.blogspot.com/2011/11/submitted-response-to-ep-id-letter.html