September 21 (UPI) – Iran’s theocratic regime has added stupidity to its long list of shortcomings. Guilty of repression, corruption, terrorism, genocide and flagrant incompetence, the mullahs controlled to sink even diminish in the eyes of the foreign network by executing, on September 12, the 27-year-old champion wrestler Navid Afkari.
Protests from 2017-2018 were followed by a national uprising in November 2019, when IRGC and THE MONTH killed another 1,500 unarmed protesters and wounded more than 12,000. Many of the wounded were taken out of their hospital beds and taken to prisons across Iran. Terrified of some other revolution that could pull them out of power, the mullahs made the decision to make an example of Afkari. His execution sent the message to the large number of young Iranians: “Try to overthrow our regime and we will kill you. “His judicial murder through the mullahs has caused outrage in Iran and the world and will never be forgotten or forgiven through the Iranian people.
Afkari’s two brothers were also arrested in the 2018 protests. The Shiraz Criminal Court sentenced Vahid and Habib Afkari to 74 lashes and 54 years and 27 years in prison, respectively, and will be subjected to severe torture in Iran’s medieval prisons.
Obama’s nuclear deal was a serious mistake from day one. It prohibited inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency from examining army-controlled sites within Iran. Virtually the entire secret nuclear program of the clerical regime was being developed at army sites and still is, so the deal was deadly from the start. Taking advantage of the weakness that characterized Europe’s progressive attitude toward its medieval regime, the Mullahs intensified their efforts to undermine US President Donald Trump’s top-pressure crusade.
Britain, France and Germany also seem determined to make a place as Europe’s leading peacemakers. The three countries rejected the U. S. proposal to re-impose sanctions on Iran, adding an arms embargo, which was lifted as a component of the nuclear agreement. Trump, who had criticized what he described as “the worst deal ever” even before entering the White House, unilaterally withdrew america from the deal. He imposed a series of serious sanctions against Iran’s regime as a component of his “maximum-tension campaign,” and ordered the drone strike that eliminated IRGC’s Quds Force terrorist commander, General Qassem SoleimaniArray.
It would also mean an end to the clerical regime, now on the brink of extinction following falling oil prices, the highest-tension crusade in the United States, and the poorly managed coronavirus pandemic, which, according to reliable resources in Iran, has claimed more than 106,000 deaths.
Eighty million Iranians, most of whom struggle to earn daily income below the line of foreign poverty, are calling for regime replacement and the recovery of freedom, justice and democracy in their impoverished country. They’re fed up with mullahs and seeking support in the West. They will regard the reinstatement of arms sales and the lifting of sanctions as a disgusting act of treason. But distinguishing between friends and enemies is a skill that unfortunately is lacking in Europe today, at least in the context of a policy towards Iran.
Borrell will have to brazenly condemn the mullahs for the execution of Navid Afkari, who will be joined by Britain, France, Germany and other European apaisers, who close all Iranian embassies without delay and expel their terrorist agents.
The Iranian regime’s warlike behavior shows that attempts at diplomatic negotiation or appeasement are futile. Navid Afkari’s execution, despite foreign protests, is a disgrace and proves once again why the leaders of this fascist theocracy will have to be charged with crimes against humanity and demanded in foreign courts.