WADDINGTON: Protecting Iranian dissidents

Well done to Lord Waddington for urging the US to carry out its international obligations, especially since this is a humanitarian situation. I saw Amnesty International issued a statement yesterday on the SOFA agreement and it too mentioned that the PMOI were at risk if their security was transfered. The UN should now formally demand that the US continue to protect Ashraf, if it has not already done so.

I completely agree with Lord Waddington that Iran under the rule of the Ayatolhas will be the biggest foreign policy challenge to President Barack Obama. It is not a secret to anyone that Ayatollahs want to dominate Iraq and are getting ready for any war they can wage, preferably for them, a war with Israel. The overwhelmingly young population of Iran is ready to act alongside the organized Resistance for regime change in Iran to bring about democracy. As Lord Waddington has mentioned this will not require any foreign military intervention. People of Iran know how to make the necessary changes on their own and posses all the requirements. Here in United States, a real change in foreign policy under Barack Obama, will not only require continued protection of camp Ashraf, but also immediate removal of PMOI from U.S.'s Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list. It was during Clinton's presidency that PMOI was named a terrorist organization to (as LA Times reported at the time) show a "goodwill gesture" to the newly elected "moderate" president Khatami. Now that everyone knows that finding a "moderate" within the Ayatollahs regimes is nothing but a dream, let us hope that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will immediately remove PMOI from the FTO list.

What a wonderful article by Lord Waddington. It is a shame that the lives of 4000 freedom-loving Iranians are now in danger as the mullahs in Tehran try to get them extradited. If their security will be handed over to the Iraqi government, it will pave the way for the Iranian regime to step up their pressure to get control over these members of the PMOI. The PMOI, whose members have already been struggling for nearly three decades to free the Iranian people from these barbaric mullahs, are now the only hope for the nation as they became the symbol of hope and peace in the Middle East with a viable solution for Iran. No war, no appeasement, but democratic change by the Iranian people themselves and their resistance will bring change in Iran.

Come on Hamid, Iran is such a small country. As our president elect said. It doesn't present any kind of a unmanageable threat.

Excellent piece by Lord Waddington. The former British Home Secretary describes exactly how dangerous the Iranian regime has become, seeing the Iranian people and the PMOI as the only right option to get these mullahs overthrown. Even Iran's own clerics have stated that their threat comes from within the country. Indeed, we have seen thousands of demonstrations organised by students, women and workers, backed and set up by the Iranian resistance inside Iran. The mullahs realise that their era has come to an end. Even if they step back one day, the Iranian people will immediately rid themselves from these murderers.