It's no secret that the nation you live in and governmental structure you live under affects the level of freedom, liberty, and quality of life you enjoy. For those of us that live in a first world nation with all the amenities and trappings of self-governance and freedom we often forget about the plight of those who live under rotten regimes. Once you've lived in a country with such liberties and freedom you never want anything less. Once you leave a repressive nation-state you become an instant and passionate advocate for human rights, freedom, liberty, and self-determination.
Okay so, let's talk about a problematic country, one which once enjoyed the best civilization had to offer, a nation which was led astray by less-than-honorable men, a country whose leaders sought out power and wealth over the desires and needs of their people. We are talking about Iran and the current Iranian regime. To say that this regime is illegitimate, corrupt, and repressive is an understatement. The list of human rights violations is so long it's hard to say where to start. The number of Iranian senior level government officials and bureaucrats committing these human rights atrocities is almost too numerous to be believed. There appears to be no end in sight as to how far the Iranian regime and its overbearing bureaucracy will go to hold power over the people, crushing dissenters for even the smallest negative comment or even social media posting. It's been an on-going and unrelenting repression of the people, often arresting activists, then brutally torturing to extract confessions of crimes they didn't commit, according to a leading non-partisan think tank. Then the Iranian regime uses those confessions to prosecute them sentencing them to long prison terms or even death. One of the best reports we've seen on the evil that pervades the once Great Persian Empire is; "Profiles of Iranian Repression" put out by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. In that one report, you will begin to scratch the surface of the unfathomable atrocities and human rights violations now occurring in the Islamic Republic of Iran. All of this information has been previously reported by the foreign policy experts at the FDD. The long-list of human rights abuses under the guise of weeding out subversion and traitors from the citizenry is inexcusable. The list of culprits in the research from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reads as if one was perusing through the resumes of Hitler's henchmen. One could ask; how could this possibly happen in the present period? It happens because the world has turned a blind-eye to the despots of such regimes. And while Iran is hardly the only place in our world where such human rights abuses occur, these acts will go on until something is done about it. It has become readily apparent that the Iranian Regime under their Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei has absolutely no intention of changing its domestic behavior, or for that matter, its international behavior as it wreaks havoc throughout the region serving its political will. It should give everyone pause for concern as the Islamic Republic's attempts to dominate its regional neighbors while ruling its own people with an iron fist. Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions are nothing more than a manifestation of lust for power and control. Waiting for Iran to get nuclear weapons to possibly hand-off to its proxy terrorists is not an option, nor is allowing such an anti-human rights regime to get away with murder, literally. A nation that will murder its own people without regret is dangerous. Imagine what it might do to other people outside its current domain? Now imagine what it might do with a nuclear weapon, able to deliver upon a declared or non-declared enemy or people, yet remain in full denial it was involved? It doesn't take much to imagine the sum of all fears coming to a nation near you. Comments are closed.
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