The Moral Double Standard
Where are all the pro Palestine voices across Europe, now that there’s a massacre taking place in Iran?
Where are the humanitarians, who for 2 years, tried to convince us that they cared so deeply for human lives? Where is Greta Thunberg and her ‘deep’ desire to help people living under oppression?
How about the celebrities who never miss an opportunity to virtue signal?
Where are they?
Why is the mainstream media so eerily silent?
During the Israel-Gaza war, a Palestinian couldn’t sneeze without journalists tripping over themselves to publish a story about it. Yet, on the day it was reported that at least 30 000 Iranians have been brutally murdered by the Islamic regime — networks like the BBC had nothing on their cover page about it.
As someone who works as an assistant for a Member of the European Parliament, I can tell you this: there is a flavour of left-wing ideology that is incredibly dangerous. It almost betrayed the Iranian people and it will destroy Europe if left unchallenged.
A Regime, Not a Country
Iran is run by the Islamic republic. A theocratic, Islamic regime that took power during the 1978 revolution. Iran wasn’t always a sharia law hell hole.
One that subjugates women. Executes gay people. Imprisons and kills dissidents. A regime that takes money from the people and funds terror across the Middle East.
Propping up terrorist organisations like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.
They’ve been holding the entire Middle East hostage for years.
Not to mention, groups like Hezbollah have an international footprint.
In South America, Africa, and yes, Europe.
This regime has given money and drone technology to Russia — who themselves are committing terror in Ukraine.
If you want a basic idea of the ideology this entity has, I’ll give a quick example.
During the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988), there were entire fields filled with landmines.
But the Islamic regime didn’t want to risk its capable fighters. So it came up with another plan.
Iranian child soldiers — some as young as 9/12 — were gathered up and given plastic keys. Keys they were told opened the doors to paradise.
They were then told to walk through the landmine infested fields.
They used the bodies of these young, indoctrinated children as minesweepers.
This regime is a death-cult.
Now you know the type of people we are dealing with here.
The Protests
In late December protests in Iran started. They began out of frustration.
The economy sucks. The infrastructure is crumbling.
Mostly because the regime uses the people’s money to fund terror and to line their own pockets.
This isn’t the first time massive protests have erupted in the country.
The Iranians, unlike most of the surrounding Arab countries, are not majority Muslim. And they are not Arabs.
They’ve been living under this brutal dictatorship for 46 years and most hate this regime and view it as an occupation.
The protests grew. Millions across the country were coming out. But their chants began to change. They were no longer simply asking for a better life. They were asking for the end of the Islamic Republic. They were demanding a change of regime.
The thing that made this protest so potent and dangerous for the Ayatollahs is the name they were calling on the streets. Reza Pahlavi. Their exiled crown prince. Their Shah. That’s another name for King.
They were chanting Javid Shah. Long live the King.
You must understand how dangerous it is to do such a thing in Iran.
You cannot do that without reasonable expectation of imprisonment, torture and death.
Reza Pahlavi — whose father was the Shah before the revolution — has been planning and drawing up the diplomatic infrastructure to transition Iran from a dictatorship to a democracy, for years. In the case that the regime comes to an end.
He’s offered himself up as a transitional leader. To get the country to a point where they can vote for the type of governance they want. Be it a Republic, a constitutional monarchy — as long as it respects the values of freedom, separation of church and state and a united Iran.
Once the Islamic regime falls, you need such a figure to step in and fill the void.
At the height of the protests, with millions coming out on the streets. It became very clear that Reza Pahlavi was the leader of this new revolution. The protestors carried his picture in the streets. They followed the instructions he gave from exile in America. He is the man that the people are looking to for a better tomorrow.
The Crackdown
But as things began to heat up, the Islamic regime did what they always do. They started to crackdown in the most brutal ways possible. So, to hide their crimes, they shut off the internet. It’s been down for almost a month, as of filming this.
The only way any information makes it through, is via Starlink.
It’s here where things go from dark to pure, unfiltered horror.
Because during this internet shutdown, the regime brought in militia from places like Iraq with one order: To end the public protesting by any means necessary.
You can imagine what happens next.
I’m not going to go into details.
Think of it as October 7th multiplied thousands of times, with no IDF coming to the rescue.
The people are completely defenseless, with nothing but their bare hands.
As of writing this, an estimated 36 000 young people were brutally murdered in a day or two. To be clear, this is one of the lower estimates. It could easily be double that number, or more.
Iran is currently a prison of 90 million people.
Something to keep in mind is that the United States is amassing military assets near Iran as we speak. It’s my belief that the US recognizes the regime has never been so weak in 47 years, and they’re preparing to take advantage of that. Trump promised the people of Iran that “help is on the way”. Whether you like him or not, means absolutely nothing to the Iranian people.
No one but the US or Israel would (or could) do anything.
Europe’s Ideological Blindness
Like I said earlier, I work for an MEP. So I get to see some of the inner workings of the European Parliament. What I saw shocked me.
Left wing ideology in the EU is unhinged.
A resolution passed in the European Parliament a couple weeks ago, with overwhelming support.
One that expresses the EU’s full support for the Iranian people.
It condemns the violence and brutality of the regime.
It calls for diplomatic pressure and sanctions.
It pushes for the IRGC to be recognised as a terrorist organisation.
That’s good.
But there’s a dark underside to all of this.
A resolution is basically a political statement.
And the EU, as an institution, contains many different political views inside it —
Left, Right, and Centre — and they don’t agree on everything, as you might imagine.
Before a resolution is adopted, political groups can propose changes.
These changes are called amendments.
Each amendment is voted on separately, and if it passes, it becomes part of the final text.
This amendment process is the engine room of how the European Parliament works.
In this case, the ECR — a centre-right political group in the European Parliament — proposed an amendment.
Calling for Reza Pahlavi to be invited to address the Parliament.
This is incredibly important to Iranians.
A revolution needs both military action and diplomatic action to be successful. Legitimising Reza Pahlavi as the opposition would be an unbelievable blow to the regime.
However, that amendment was rejected.
The vote was 132 in favour, 387 against, and 96 abstentions.
That alone is revealing.
It’s almost certain that the majority of left-wing groups voted against it or chose to abstain.
But it gets worse.
Some of the amendments proposed by left-wing groups — which were ultimately rejected — included calls to:
exert pressure on the United States and Israel not to intervene,
undermine or lift sanctions pressure on Iran — while they’re still butchering people.
and condemn any external interference in Iran’s affairs.
Think about that.
The people of Iran are almost completely defenceless in the face of this brutality.
This isn’t simply a difference of political ideology.
This is being actively anti human.
It means there’s a group in the European Parliament who would watch Iranians get murdered, maimed and raped.
And not only would they not intervene, if they had their way, they would stop anyone else from intervening.
This is unambiguously evil.
The IRGC has now, thankfully, officially been proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
If you look online you’ll find that the loudest pro palestine voices are silent on Iran. Why? Well, because groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are funded by this same regime. So admitting that they are dark and twisted would mean recognising that these terrorist groups are cut from the same dirty cloth.
This does not compute smoothly in their minds.
For a certain flavour of left wing ideology, an oppressor can only be from the West. They can only be white. Or Jewish. Even though Hamas executes Palestinians on the streets and controls the people with fear — they are not the oppressors. It’s Israel. Even though the Islamic republic butchers people, destabilizes the entire region. Maimes women and so much more. The real oppressor is America.
In London, there was a pro Palestine march a couple weeks ago. They were openly waving Islamic regime flags.
That’s an unambiguous supportive act towards a murderous dictatorship, on the streets of a Western country. They also openly denied the massacres, just like many did after October 7th.
What I’m trying to say is this.
Europe has become a breeding ground for terrorist support. It’s wrapped up in this “oppressor - oppressed” narrative born out of Western self-hate. It’s spreading like a poison. It’s making its way into governments, the European Union and onto the very streets we walk on.
It makes us vulnerable and weak at fighting against ideologies and cultures that are not compatible with ours. It makes people accept the brain dead idea, which is: all cultures are equal. No. No they are not. That’s painfully obvious.
Ignoring that fact is incredibly dangerous.
That’s why Iran is such a stumbling block for many with this ideology.
Islam took a country that was pro West and making significant, modern advancements, and turned it into a Sharia Law hell hole. One with a dead economy and crumbling infrastructure. It’s become one of the most sanctioned countries on the planet, with one of the most backward social systems — rivaled only by Afghanistan, perhaps.
The Iranian people want out. They want to be pro West and live free. Islamic culture has been a nightmare and brought only pain and death. Their oppressors are the Ayatollahs. Not America or Israel. On the contrary, the Iranians view them as their possible saviours.
This is very confusing for those who convinced themselves of a certain narrative.
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