The founder and the late leader and dictator of Islamic regime of Iran, "Ruhollah Khomeini" had a famous dictum that he addressed to his followers: “Direct your rage against America and shot your slogans against it.” Khomeini believed that the roots of Iranian internal and external problems goes back to the American policy. Today it is better to turn back he’s slogan to him. It is a fact that dirty politics of the Islamic regime are responsible for most of political crisis, regional war and in securities.
More than two year have passed since the beginning of the Syrian movement against tyranny. During the period tens of thousands of people have been killed. Unfortunately, the international community and human rights agencies have remained silent. Silence as such results in more and more casualties. During the past few days that "Bashar Assad" used chemical weapons against people, some politicians and statesmen engaged in discussions and issuing political statements. The US President, Mr."Hussein Barak Obama" mentioned that the Syrian government is passing the red light. In principles, governments are formed for the welfare of their people. A government loses its legitimacy, if it turned against its people. This is a self-evident fact that should be added to the international human rights legislation.
As is well known, the Syrian government has initiated extermination of people including children, since January 2011. It is more accurate to mention that Syrian government has passed the red line from the very beginning.
Syrian dictator, Bashar Asad also called his opposition terrorist and posed the activities of terrorist groups as the reason of Syria's unrest situation.
If we assume that his illusion is real and they caused the death of more than hundred thousands and displacing of millions of people, it is natural that Bashar Asad must steep down due to his incompetence and inability of security and let competence persons come on the power with the decision of Syria's people.
But the fact is that Asad's regime is responsible for all the massacre. It is expected to punish him in a World Court, because of his crimes against humanity.
Is it important that people be killed by this or that method? What is the difference between killing by kitchen knife, bullets, hanging ropes or poisonous gases? During 1980s, tens of thousands of Iranian political prisoners were massacred by various means mainly hanging. Massacre, whatever shape it takes, is itself a kind of passing the red line. It is wrong to consider the killing of few hundred people by chemical weapons passing through red line and massacres of more than 100,000 people passing through green light.
In this juncture, some high ranking authorities in Iran have jumped on the band wagon to fabricate soft stories to the benefit of Assad regime. They declare that the use of chemical weapons have been done by anti-government’s forces in Syria in an attempt to attribute murder and violence to the Assad’s regime!
In a condition that it is difficult for oppositional forces to obtain conventional weapons, how can they get access to sophisticated chemical weapons? And how can they use them against their own forces and people? Assad forces have involved themselves in people’s extermination on a massive and widespread scale. This has been such an open and ongoing involvement that is self-evident. Despite membership in the UN Convention against the Use of Chemical Weapon (1968), the Syrian regime has accepted to stop production and storing of chemical weapons. This reluctance is justified in the name of defense against Israel. It has shown no respect for the recommendations of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The Syrian government had already confessed about having arsenals of chemical weapons with the commitment not to use them against domestic opposition.
In the circumstances, it is surprising that international community does not show adequate reaction against mass annihilation. There are two possible reasons for this silence and inaction. The first apparent reason comes from the fact that tension in Syria has led to a civil war and, according to some halfhearted international norm, the Syrian regime has the right to react against its oppositional forces during the civil war. If the community had reacted against the suppressive policies of Assad's regime, we would have avoided the murder and dislocation of million Syrian people. The second reason goes back to the Syrian allies such as Iran, China and Russia. As is well known, in any international measure, Russia stands against the USA. China has emerged conspicuous in the game of death and misery in Syria. In this juncture, the Islamic regime of Iran emerges as the main winner.
The continuation of war and destruction in Syria has overshadowed the suppressive policies of the Iranian regime. It has distracted international attention form calling Iran into account for its nuclear programs. These have provided the Islamic regime with a golden opportunity to continue with its psychological war in favour of Assad’s regime with sending spies, human forces and war equipment to Syria. In other words, the atrocious regime of Bashar Assad is maintained by the Islamic regime of Iran through the operations of paramilitary Iranian guards. This is a part and parcel of the Iranian regime’s global anti-human policy to the extent that one can say that Iranian regime is more dangerous that atomic bomb. This is a warning to the international community.
The 1925 Geneva Protocol on prohibition of the use of chemical weapons in war was adopted following the production and the use of chemical weapons by Germany during the World War I. It is unfortunate that after almost a century, this protocol has not yet been implemented. During 1961-1971, the us army used thousands of tons of orange chemical materials in Vietnam. The impact was so horrible that some babies are still born with deformation. The former government of Iran used chemical weapons in Iran during 1984 to 1988. It led to the death of more than 100,000 Iranians and also in one area alone, "Halabcheh" in Kurdistan, they took the lives of 5000 of their own people following the use chemical weapons. And today, we witness the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime.
The 1925 Geneva Protocol was supplanted by 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention. Both the instruments have not been implemented widely. The reason behind their adoption is saving millions of people against the massive harms and destruction of these weapons. There is a relevant question here: what about other weapons of mass destruction? The world is being threatened today by nuclear weapons, cluster bombs, sound bombs, and smart robotic weapons that can massacre great numbers of people in the shortest period of time. Therefore, the time has come now to call upon the United Nations to prepare dozens of convention and projects against weapons of mass destruction and make genuine efforts for their implementation in the future.
Caspian Makan
Writer & Human Rights Activist
"The founder of Campaign for the Change and
Completion of Global Human Rights Instruments"
[End the Killing of Humans by Humans]
caspianmakan@gmail.com
