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Fri Dec 23, 2005
IRAN: SECULAR PARTY FORMED IN EXILE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“Iranian National Secular Party.”
That’s the title of the newly organized freedom effort. Its mission is to bring truth to the world community regarding what happens in Iran. Hopefully, the new party will bring actual liberties to Iranians within the borders of Iran.
The chairman of the newly formed entity is Aryo Priouznia, coordinator for the “Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran” (SMCCDI).
The new thrust was established in exile, guided by SMCCI, and now anticipating “millions of Iranians, especially students, Iranian youth and women” to recognize its importance, stated Priouznia, according to L’Opinione by Stefania Lapenna.
“Every day there are more Iranians who are rallying around such positive, progressive and humanistic foundations which is the best antidote to radical Islamic ideology and its backward logic, intolerance, and gender discrimination, fascism, and promotion of hate and terror against the West,” Priouznia said.
One of the main hopes of any democracy agenda regarding Iran is the youth population. Youths make up the vast majority of Muslim populations anywhere in the world. The same is true of Iran. If democracy can get hold of the youth’s idealism and strength, it can find its way in toppling ruthless despots.
“INSP is a new entity that should be able, as a political party, to help in the implementation of the well-known desire by most Iranians for a secular democracy and be permitted and recognized as a nation promoting peace and tolerance,” Pirouznia explained.
INSP works with freedom-espousing individuals of all races, religions and backgrounds. The baseline is working for Iranian personal freedoms. INSP anticipates that someday Iran will be set loose from the present tyrannical hold. Iranians in exile have not forgotten those still enslaved by a dictatorship molded by a legalistic, extremist Islamic regime. INSP is opposed to the Iranian theocracy.
Pirouznia believes that present-day Iranians “are one of the most secular and democracy thirsty people of the planet. They are renewing with ‘Iranism’ principles, not Islamism. They’re valuing more historic figures like Cyrus the Great than Mohomet the Islamic prophet.”
Pirouznia informed media that he does not have faith in the present UN when it comes to defending democracy in Iran.
“There are UN members that are close collaborators of the Islamic regime and others that fear that sanctions against the Islamic regime can create precedents for their own inculpation later for the same reasons. The present problem with the UN is very deep and it goes to the heart of its composition and administration.
“Just to remind you that Iran was, in 1948, a signatory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and many other conventions. These days, everybody knows that thousands have been executed, tortured, imprisoned, stoned or lashed in Iran under various false excuses, labels and, hence, the Islamic republic is still usurping the Iranian Nation’s Chair at the UN, and is continuing its barbarian rule in total impunity.”
Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
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