Ex-US embassy in Iran hosts conference on US rights violations
Yousef Jalali
Press TV, Tehran
Iran's capital Tehran has hosted a ceremony dubbed revealing US rights violations. The event comes on the heels of a week long occasion called the US Human Rights Week that recounts the US hostile policies against Iranians.
The US: A defender or a violator of human rights? Activists in this conference tick the second option. And they say they have documented reasons to prove it.
Iran has just wrapped up a fateful week it calls the US Human Rights Week to review tragic incidents in the 1980s that killed hundreds of Iranians. The US footprints can be traced in all of those incidents. A case in point is the 1988 downing of an Iranian passenger plane by the US navy that killed 290 Iranians onboard.
Among the events that fall in this period is the 1981 bombing of the headquarters of Iran's Islamic Republic party, carried out by the Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization, known as the MKO. Seventy three leading officials, including the then Justice Chief, Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti were killed in the terror attack.
The US and Europe do not recognize the MKO as a terrorist entity and hold regular meetings with the terror group, which is now based in France and Albania.
Activists here believe the US has not changed its hostile behavior toward Iranians. They refer to the ongoing anti-Iran sanctions as economic terrorism that seeks to fulfill the same goals it failed to achieve in the 1980s.
The victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution marked the end of decades of US dominance over Iran's economy and its petroleum sector; something which is believed to be the main reason why the US has made several attempts to deal a blow to the Islamic Republic, including its support for Iraq in its eight years of war against Iran, its unconditional support for the anti-Iran MKO terrorist group and today, by unleashing the toughest sanctions that have overshadowed Iran's health sector.
This gathering is held at the former US embassy in Iran, which has now turned into a museum that showcases documents of Washington's hostile agenda against Iran, including its attempts to derail the 1979 Islamic Revolution and reinstate monarchy in Iran.
Iranians call this double standards towards human rights, but they say, it's time for the world to know the truth.
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