“The longest suffering victims of Iran's leaders are, in fact, its own people”
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, Ms Asma Jahangir, in her latest interim report (A/72/322) drew attention to the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran as well as the impunity enjoyed by Iranian officials involved in the “1988 massacre”. In a matter of a few months, some 30,000 political prisoners were executed. Some of the perpetrators are holding key positions in Iran today.
The British Committee for Iran Freedom (BCFIF) welcomes the acknowledgement by the US President that “The longest suffering victims of Iran’s leaders are, in fact, its own people” and that “Iran’s people are what their leaders fear the most”.
Such an acknowledgement is a testimony to the correctness of our long-standing position that the international community must side with the people of Iran in their pursuit of freedom and democracy.
We also agree that the Iranian regime “has turned a wealthy country, with a rich history and culture, into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos.”
Over the years our experience has shown that this is a regime which cannot be trusted at all. This fact has been reiterated over and over again by the actions of the regime. Its illicit nuclear activities and secret sites were exposed by the opposition. We believe in 2013 when the regime was forced to come to the negotiating table, the international community lost a unique opportunity to end the concern about Iran’s nuclear (BCFIF)
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