No French Terrorists in Iran, Why Free Rein to Iranian Terrorists in Paris?

By:Kayhan Int’l 

     

What if Iran were to grant asylum to terrorist groups, and if such purveyors of terrorism had attacked the embassy of their own country in Tehran; let us suppose the French embassy; then what would have been the reaction of France?  

In such a case Paris, joined by other European states and of course, the US, would have raised a hue and cry against the Islamic Republic, subjecting it to all sorts of weird and wild accusations – for instance ‘Tehran is the chief sponsor of international terrorism’, ‘Iran ought to be isolated’, ‘we demand handover of all French dissidents on Iranian territory’, and so on.

These two paragraphs are just suppositions in view of the clean record against terrorists and terrorism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the chief victim of international terrorism, sponsored by certain western regimes, including France, where some of the dangerous cutthroats and killers, whose hands are dipped in the blood of Iranian citizens, are based.

Yesterday on Saturday, a group of these terrorists attacked the Iranian embassy in the French capital, or maybe they were allowed by the regime of Emmanuel Macron to indulge in a token act of terrorism by raising a ruckus, throwing stones, breaking window panes and damaging property – in protest to Iran’s justified missile strike on headquarters of a notorious terrorist outfit in northern Iraq from where these criminals were staging cross-border raids on Iranian towns. 

This is not an unfounded accusation but an undeniable fact, as is evident by the belated appearance of security forces to rein in the terrorists until damage was done.

Moreover, the very presence in France of these lawless elements, including the MKO terrorists – all fugitives from justice in Iran – is a big question mark on the intentions and credibility of the French regime.
Unfortunately, despite the goodwill shown by the Islamic Republic over the past forty years, France has failed to reciprocate positively, as is borne out by the asylum it has granted to convicted killers of Iranian officials and ordinary citizens, while allowing these traitorous terrorists to stage public gatherings in Paris against Iran. 

Iran remembers that nuclear-armed France, playing second fiddle to the US, never missed an opportunity to prevent the Islamic Republic from proceeding with its legal IAEA-cleared peaceful nuclear project, and was part of the pressure group that forced the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action) on Tehran after duping Iranian negotiators to agree an unbelievable scale-down from 20 percent uranium enrichment to a mere 3.5 percent, plus unexplained time-barriers, and all this without the complete lifting of the illegal economic sanctions contrary to promises.

Now, following the unilateral breach of the JCPOA by the US in violation of its own commitments, though France says it continues to respect the international nuclear accord, it is dodging the issue of the unwarranted withdrawal of French Industrial giants, such as Total, Peugeot, and Airbus, from agreements signed with Iran, on the unconvincing pretext that Paris cannot stop them from precautionary measures to escape Washington’s vengeance. 

In addition, France, which has no right to meddle in Iran’s neighbourhood – for example Syria, where some terrorist outfits receive military and monetary aid from Paris – has tried to raise undue objections to the Islamic Republic’s stabilization efforts in the region, and has the audacity to call for limiting Iran’s ballistic missile capability and range, which is not more than 2,000 km, in contrast to the 6,000 long range French ballistic missiles, the real danger to world peace. 

Therefore, whatever the motives behind Saturday’s terrorist attack on the Iranian embassy in Paris, the message from the Islamic Republic is loud and clear. 

Iran wants peace and friendship with all world countries – except the illegal Zionist entity that has no right to prolong its precarious survival on Palestinian soil – but on no account will either allow terrorists to undermine its neighbourhood or bow to the dictates of neo-colonial powers regarding its right to develop modern technology, including nuclear, aerospace, missile, nano, stem cells etc.