Shirin Shafaei interview

UPDATE: Read the corrections noted in the comment below

I recommend reading this devastating interview with Shirin Shafaei which originally appeared in Iranicum and was translated by Iran Review - especially for the large collection of links.

To use a court case analogy, this is what has happened: Iran has been accused of having an intention to develop nuclear weapons (guilty until proven innocent), the Agency (prosecutor and the jury) cannot guarantee that Iran does not have a military nuclear agenda (double negative case), the enemy of Iran, Israel, itself very much guilty of having actually committed the same crime (nuclear weaponisation) provides the jury with the so-called evidence. Important documents and information were withheld from the jury (former IAEA head, ElBaradei) and the defendant (Iran). Meanwhile the new head of the jury (current IAEA head, Amano) is himself under the influence of another arch enemy of Iran and best friends of Israel, namely the US. The US is itself guilty of not only having the largest number of nuclear arsenal in the world throughout the history, but also guilty of being the only country which has actually used nuclear bombs against civilian population, not once but twice. When the jury-prosecutor receives these readymade allegations and fabricated evidence supporting those allegations, it sends Iran’s nuclear file to the Supreme Court which is the Security Council here. There again you find the US sitting comfortably along with its European allies and opportunist powers to decide if Iran should be punished for a crime it has not committed. It won’t be hard to guess what such a verdict would be, without even having seen or verified the evidence.

Comments

[Sh]

Hello,
Many thanks for recommending the interview on your website. Just a couple of points:
The Interview was conducted by InPEC. The Iranicum interview is a different one: only referred to a couple of times by InPEC.
The Iranicum interview is called: "The West Cannot Afford A Fully Independent Iran"
Link in English (Without hyper-links):
http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/The_West_Cannot_Afford_A_Fully_Independent_Iran.htm
Link in German (with hyper-links):
http://iranicum.com/2011/08/der-westen-kann-sich-ein-souveranes-iran-nicht-leisten/1365.html

One minor point: The interviewee's name is: Shirin Shafaie. (as opposed to Shafaei)

All the very best and Happy New Year

[k_w]

The first link is broken. Is it this one:

http://inpec.in/2011/12/22/iran-israel-and-the-us-whos-threatening-who/

[Fixed thanks]

[ali]

please blog about this recent decision to delist mko

http://news.yahoo.com/eu-court-upholds-bar-iran-group-terrorism-listing-223830884.html

halam bad shod!