Iran's Incoming Mass-Executioner-President and the Liberation of Iran

"Ebrahim Raisi is a criminal, guilty of crimes against humanity. He is a living symbol of the folly of trying to appease [Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's] regime."

"Shame on any government in the world that would sit down and try to negotiate anything with an administration led by Ebrahim Raisi."

"All pretenses of a so-called moderate candidacy were dispensed with [in the quasi-election that brought Raisi to the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran]."

"The government I led was never fooled by the supposed existence of a phantom moderate faction."

Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Jose Luis Magana

Under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper Canada cut off formal diplomatic ties with Iran in 2012. Diplomatic missions were closed at both ends. Iran had proven its reputation as a supporter of terrorism, it had attempted to infiltrate Canada to spy on expatriate Iranians, now Canadian citizens who had left their country of origin as refugees during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The Iranian government was propagandizing in Canada, whitewashing its human rights crimes.

That Iran was a sponsor of terrorist groups, training and funding them and leading them through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps al Quds division, forming a Shiite bloc in the Middle East in opposition to the majority Arab Sunni population with an end mission of conquest and control was well enough recognized. That it intended to wipe Israel ('the Zionist Entity') off the map of the Middle East was repeated often enough, even at the United Nations by its former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

 

Iran's violent intervention in Syria through Hezbollah and the IRGC helped to prolong the civil war destroying the lives of over a half-million Sunni Syrians and creating millions of refugees fleeing the Alawite regime of Bashar al Assad whose use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians, destroying ancient monuments and civil infrastructure, bombing hospitals and medical clinics with the aid of Iran-loyal Shiite militias. Iran's intervention supporting the Houthis in Yemen has victimized millions there.

 

 

Stephen Harper is a man of moral rectitude, readily able to determine the destructive harm a regime such as the Islamic Republic is capable of producing on the world stage. A regime that sends its Hezbollah terror group on violent missions abroad, invested in atrocious crimes against Jewish populations on the international stage. That the new American administration is once again negotiating with Iran over the 'nuclear agreement' that Tehran long since abrogated is a puzzling anomaly in intelligent reasoning.

Iran instigates its loyal militias in Iraq and Syria to strike at U.S. military and its assets, a covert guerilla war which the U.S. responds to in kind, yet insists that negotiating over an issue that (no terms of negotiation of any value is possible to restrain Iran from achieving its nuclear goal) will render Iran incapable of producing nuclear bombs. A government that cannot be trusted since its word is but a temporary solution to gain the trust of an adversary to its aspirations, to be set aside once its covert actions have brought it the success it seeks.

In a speech to the international conference on the state of Iran, Mr. Harper spoke volumes of support for the Iranian opposition while condemning the human rights abuses and the villainous agenda of the Islamist theocracy. The Free Iran World Summit is not without its own background, since it is the work of a once-outlawed group considered to be terrorists themselves, the MEK, condemned for the violence it succumbed to in its opposition to the ruling Ayatollahs. As an 'outlaw' group it gave support to the regime of former Baathist Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. 

The opposition group appears now to have reformed itself, no longer invested in violence to gain its end, resorting instead to courting international influence as a legitimate opposition group to a dictatorial regime with the use of diplomacy and a positive environment of opposition. Mr. Harper spoke to the virtual conference of the Free Iran World Summit, informing attendees that Ebrahim Raisi, despite his involvement in the brutal murder of Iranian dissidents, provides evidence of rising fundamentalist extremism in Iran.

Formally set to take the presidency in a month, the man sanctioned by the U.S. government for his crimes, is set to become the Iranian president despite his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners dating to 1988. Viewed as a protege of the supreme leader, Raisi rose to the highest civilian position in Iran in a sham vote whose historically low turnout spoke volumes of the 'choice' given the Iranian electorate with alternative candidates for the competition for president disqualified by a Khameneist panel of candidate adjudicators.