EU Must End Iran Appeasement, Says Former MEP

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While Donald Trump has called the nuclear deal with Iran “insane” and “the worst deal in history”, there are many in Europe including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel clamoring for him to stick to the deal, without offering any real changes.

Macron and Merkel visited Trump in Washington in April to convince him to stick with the deal. The list of those who are trying to convince Trump to stay with the deal also includes British Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU’s high representative, Federica Mogherini.

In this regard, former member of the European Parliament and the coordinator of “Campaign for Iran Change”, Struan Stevenson, wrote: “In a misguided effort to appease the theocratic regime in Iran, the EU has long pursued a policy it refers to as ‘constructive dialogue’. This has included a reluctance to mention human rights to a regime that has achieved the number one slot as the main proponent of the death penalty per capita in the world… Despite this barbaric tyranny, Mogherini has repeatedly visited Tehran, dutifully donning the veil and posing for selfies with Iranian politicians, handing a propaganda coup to the mullahs.”

While Trump has until May 12 to make his final decision on the fate of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed a cache of documents showing that Iran lied about developing a nuclear weapons programme, and that the nuclear deal was based on lies and deception on the Iranian side.

The White House said the new documents has provided “new and compelling details” about Iran’s push to build “missile-deliverable nuclear weapons”.

On Sunday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo even said that the US would cancel the nuclear deal unless the flaws cited by Donald Trump in January were fixed. This includes the ban on international inspectors gaining access to military sites inside Iran, where clandestine nuclear work is almost certainly being undertaken.

The West has long sought an appeasement policy with the Iranian Regime, culminating in the Iran nuclear deal. However, the people of Iran have taken to the streets in a mass uprising last January that continues despite suppression and mass arrests by the regime.

These people have seen their wealth, including the money handed in to the Iranian authorities following the nuclear deal, squandered on foreign warfare, like the Syrian civil war, used to develop illicit missiles, and slipped into the mullahs’ personal accounts.

Now, the international community must stand with Iranian people and end appeasement of the mullahs’ regime.

 

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