Posted on 07/17/2004 5:04:54 AM PDT by faludeh_shirazi
For Immediate Release: July 16, 2004
For More Information Contact: Audrey Mullen, 202-861-5677
Washington, DC (July 16, 2004) – Incredibly, those in the foreign policy establishment primarily responsible twenty-five years ago for America’s abandonment of democratic elements in Iran to the tyranny of violent, extremist mullahs, are now calling for “engagement” with the very terror masters of Tehran that they helped empower.
Clearly, decades after the calamitous and unprincipled policies of the Carter Administration opened the way to the bloody subjugation of Iranian liberty, Zbignew Brzezinski, Robert Gates and the Council on Foreign Relations have learned nothing in the intervening years from Iran’s bloody oppression and the rise of radical Islamism that has killed thousands of Americans.
The CFR dismisses as futile the sacrifices and aspirations of pro-democratic Iranians, and advocates “direct dialogue with Tehran on matters of mutual concern.” Such a course is inimical to a foreign policy that promotes global stability, advances the prospects of democratic self-determination for the Iranian people, and provides for the defense of the strategic interests of the U.S. and the western democracies.
The CFR’s “New Approach” is in fact the same old accommodationism that lost Iran as America’s ally in the 1970s, and gives aid and comfort to the enemies of liberty, democracy, and modernity. By legitimizing the reign of the IRI’s medieval “mullahcracy,” the elitists of the CFR abandon those fighting for freedom and universal human rights. The lawless despots of Tehran are aggressively developing a nuclear weapons capacity to attack or blackmail the west – against the wishes of the Iranian people. Nuclear weapons in the hands of this regime will inevitably prolong its illegitimate grasp on power.
The IRI has less than 10 % of popular support within the country, by its own polling. “Dialogue” can only embolden the mullahs, damage the good will that exists between most Iranians and America, and set back the cause of liberty. As was graphically seen in their acts of solidarity following the attacks of 9/11, the Iranian people look to the U.S. for models of democratic institutions, and moral support for self-liberation.
A global freedom movement is emerging in rejection of the Islamic Republic of Iran and in support of the legacy of the Iranian Students Uprising of 1999. Any rapprochement with the terror masters of Tehran will damage and undermine this movement, and is not in the long-term interest of peace.
Commentary on the position of the Iranian democratic resistance movement, and its utter rejection of the presumptuous pro-IRI advocacy of the CFR will be provided by representative spokespersons immediately outside the location of the Council on Foreign Relations Press Briefing, Monday July 19, 2004, the Washington Club, 15 Dupont Circle NW, Washington DC. For information, please call Audrey Mullen, 202-861-5677.
FREEDOM! - Who's going to the Demonstration??
Thanks to the bumbling peanut farmer Jimmuh Cahter.
Don't live there........
Don't live there........???
Some people stay and fight for what is right!
Not everyone turns tail and runs when things get rough!
Run?
I'd have to fly to get to Washington .......can't make it Monday.
The Marxists at the CFR have a long record of supporting dictators, and have a special place in their little black hearts for the thieves and murderers at the UN.
Good luck.
Suggestion, you might want to get in touch with the DC Chapter.
I pray for the day when America sees how much Opecker Blood Money has been given to Carter and his henchmen the past two decades.
The Saudis have funded them in the open in the guise of grants and gifts to Jimmy's library.
Only God and the Mass Murdering Mullahs of Iran know how much Opecker Blood Money these thugs have given the Carter thugs in and out of government.
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