Supporting the Iranian people

I was asked a very simple but insightful question: "What do you mean by saying that the West should support the Iranian people?"

Well, there are many forms of support any freedom-loving nation could lend to another nation which is enchained by tyrants: It could supply them with guns, it could give them money, it could destroy their enemies, etc.

I don't agree with any of these.

I think if a freedom-loving nation was to ever lend support to an oppressed one, it should first and foremost recognize and publicly acknowledge the situation. Why are the European states, for example, refraining from separating the population of Iran, the oppressed, from the regime of Iran, the oppressors? Why do they insist on embracing and having a dialogue with those who violate the Iranian people's basic rights? We have to draw the line somewhere, don't we?

So, by "support," I mean moral support. The West should acknowledge that the Iranian people are enslaved by a bunch of unelected tyrants, and it should isolate those tyrants, instead of doing political and economic business with them. Even now, after 3 UNSC sanctions against Iran, some companies in Germany and Italy are still selling components to Iran that could be used for an atomic bomb or long-range missiles. Well, that just makes a mockery of the UNSC sanctions.

We should make any dialogue with the Iranian regime dependent on the improvement of human rights in Iran. We should not even offer to talk with the Iranian mullahs unless there are tangible improvements in human rights. We should remember that women get stoned to death in Iran.

We should also impose stricter sanctions on the Iranian regime including an oil embargo. Sure, that hurts business, but think about the long-term effects of not doing this.

It's most interesting that when there are the most miniscule election worries in Russia, for example, or other countries, all the news media harp on it to no end. But, when Iran conducts sham and bogus elections, no one in the West considers it apt to condemn the unfree and unfair "elections." So-called analysts are still saying Ahmadinejad is an elected president. Instead of these ludicrous remarks, we can call for a UN-sponsored elections in Iran, instead of legitimizing the fake and bogus elections run by the mullahs. What are the mullahs so afraid of? We all know the answer.

Finally, by lending support to the Iranian people, I mean recognizing their right to oppose a brutal tyranny. Right now, the largest opposition movement is on the terrorist list in the EU and the U.S. Why? Because whenever the mullahs sit at the negotiating table, the first thing that they request from their interlocutors to pressure their most effective and largest enemy, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran.

I've talked about this organization before, and I've said that as an Iranian, I believe they are the most realistic hope for a free Iran. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been on the terror list. They would have occupied seats at the Iranian parliament and became buddies with Ahmadinejad.

We should remove the PMOI from the terror lists. This is what 35 British MPs from both houses asked for last year. They took their case against the British Government to court and a UK court called the decision to designate the PMOI as terrorists, "flawed" and "perverse." Why is the British Government still insisting on keeping the PMOI on the lsit? Is the appeasement of the mullahs so important that would make our leaders trample upon our own laws and courts?

The terror designation against Iran's main opposition movement is now illegal and must be removed immediately. That is what I mean by supporting the Iranian people in their endeavor towards a free Iran. It means we should not place barriers on their path. The Iranian people don't want money, guns, or jets. It is their responsibility to free themselves. We should morally support them in that endeavor and politically and economically isolate the Iranian mullahs.