Appeasement Of Iran Must End, Says Former MEP

NCRI – Donald Trump has until May 12 to make his final decision on the fate of the Iranian nuclear deal of 2015.

Trump has called the deal “insane” and “the worst deal in history”, but there are many in Europe clamouring for him to stick to it, without offering any real changes.

This includes French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, both of whom visited Trump in April to convince him to stick with the deal, as well as British Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security, Federica Mogherini.

While Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed a cache of documents that proved that Iran lied about developing a nuclear weapons programme, meaning that the nuclear deal was based on Iranian lies and deception.
The White House said that this 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.

Appeasement

The West has long sought an appeasement policy with the Iranian Regime, culminating in the Iran nuclear deal.

Struan Stevenson, the coordinator of Campaign for Iran Change and former member of the European Parliament, 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.”

In such a brutal country is it any wonder that the people have taken to the streets in a mass uprising that continues despite suppression and mass arrests by the Regime?

These people have seen their wealth, including that supplied by 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 them and end their appeasement of the mullahs’ regime.