Wednesday, June 1, 2016

What SHOULD be discussed?


Today, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Prime Minister of Islamic government of Iran, has come to Sweden. I don't know, and don't want to know what will be discussed between him and Swedish Minister For Foreign Affairs, Ms Margot Wallström, and Sweden parliament, but what CAN be discussed? Or better say what SHOULD be discussed? Here are some ideas:

Some time ago, on May 2015, Zarif, with a smile on his face, and what a famous smile he has, denied anyone be prisoned because of political or opinion reasons. Such a big lie definitely can't be told without such a big smile. But as an Iranian full of love for my countrymen, I want to raise some questions worth to be asked from:

Please ask him about Omid Kokabee, 33 years old, Iranian experimental laser physicist at the University of Texas at Austin who was returning from the United States to visit his family in January 30, 2011 and never returned his university, for being arrested in airport, was forced by authorities to obtain his collaboration for the Iranian nuclear program by threatening him and his family, and when he resisted not to, was sentenced 10 years of prison. Of course he wasn't formally charged for that. He was initially charged with "gathering and colluding against national security" but later, after being acquitted from the primary charges, he was put on trial for “communicating with a hostile government (USA)” and “illegitimate/illegal earnings”. Even though he repeatedly denied all charges against himself, he was finally sentenced to ten years in prison.
Search for www.freeomid.org to find out more. Maybe if you address Zarif to visit this website, his smile vanishes.

Ask him who is Narges Mohammadi? But to make sure diplomatic version wouldn't fool those who doesn't know the truth, let "ME" tell you the story first. She is a human-rights activist who, beside many peaceful activities like giving speeches here and there, signed some announcements written by Legam campaign, which in Pers stands for "Cancellation of Execution, Step by Step", a group of people trying to remove execution from Iran's jurisdiction laws, and offer substantial sentences instead. She wasn't even a co-founder of Legam, but just a member, however was sentenced to 16 years of prison for some charges including co-founding such a campaign, even though she was just a member of, as mentioned before. Yes, in Iran, my homeland, joining a campaign like that and signing such announcements, can lead separation of a mother and her beloved children for more than a decade, which she has a lovely twin.

#freeshima: Ask him about Shima babaee, 21, supporter of labour children. Ask him if she were kidnapped from her home in front of her parents eyes, by security forces or not. Ask him about Hamid Masoumi, 21, civil activist. Ask him why should they be in solitary with no reason. But if I should tell the story first, they were arrested for attending a peaceful gathering held by Taheri's fans. One were never released and other kidnapped from her home after she was released in the first place. It would be more than enough if anybody searches #freeshima in twitter or Facebook.

And last but not least, please ask him about a famous researcher, scientist and teacher who received 3 honorary doctorates in two years, founder of two complementary and alternative medicines Faradarmani and Psymentology, author of 150 books from which 3 was published in Iran, 6 was published abroad, and others were stolen by authorities, introducer of an Iranian mysticism called Erfan-e-Keyhani(Halgheh) and philanthropist, Dr. Mohammad Ali Taheri, who was arrested in 2011, was sentenced 5 years of prison, spent all of which in solitary, but after 3 and a half months after completing the sentence, hasn't been released yet. To explain who Taheri is and why he was arrested, needs a book to be written. His 

How can smiling Zarif look into camera and deny having  prisoners in Iran's prisons.

I don't question Zarif for his opposite-to-reality responds to reporters' queries about human-rights in Iran, because he has to return his representative country, and admiting truth about these matters can put him besides Omid, Narges and Mohammad Ali, but question you, Swedish nation.

I've researched your recent history and found you a leading nation in human-rights support in countries like Iran. I can recall your country's votes against Iran's nuclear program in EU's parliament, and so on.

You proved to the world that human-rights and world-peace is more important for you than some bloody financial contracts with such a country, but when you host Foreign Minister of a country full of human-rights violation, let me assure you that any closeness you build with my homeland's government will not be forgotten in history. Especially when everyday more students are tortured, more intellectuals are prisoned and more opposite voices are muted forcefully.

Discussing about political relations with Iran Government, when you know and I am sure you know about the human rights violations in Iran, is just like you are favoring the human rights violation, no matter where, no matter by whom, you are just supporting the human rights violations.

Don't put the ignorance of this human rights violations as a price to pay for having relationship with Iran, for gaining the Iranian commercial markets, do not close your eyes on these violations, the history will not forget what is happening now and who supports and favors these violations all over the world.

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