THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT MUST INDICT IRAN’S REPRESSIVE LEADERS!

In the 21st century ICT age, the international community must never tolerate any ruling regime anywhere on the planet Earth, which brutalizes its own people, under any circumstances – and the lame and unacceptable excuse that standing up to such regimes, by publicly condemning their acts of repression in no uncertain terms, amounts to an interference in the internal affairs of their nations, must not be made by leaders of the world’s leading democracies. Over the past few weeks, the whole world has witnessed the brutal and repressive images caught on thousands of mobile phone video cameras in the streets of Tehran, showing harrowing scenes involving vicious riot policemen and murderous motorcycle gangs (agents of the Iranian regime now incredibly engaged in the repression of the Iranian people), brutalizing peaceful demonstrators. There can be no doubt whatsoever that those abominable acts of cruelty clearly amount to crimes against humanity.

A proud and noble people with a civilization that dates back thousands of years, must not be left by the rest of the civilized world, to the mercy of brutish myrmidon-gangs on motorcycles, and callous out-of-control riot policemen – doing the bidding of a hypocritical Iranian leadership: apparently respectable and religious Mullahs, whom one naively once thought held power because of their moral authority, but whom it now turns out in reality are cruel ogres, who run a nasty and oppressive dictatorship based on brute force. Far from being God-fearing men of religion, it is now obvious to all of humankind that they run a dictatorship, which oversees a repressive system that is prepared to kill even defenceless women in order to hang on to power – such as Neda, the brave young Iranian woman seen dying in a Tehran street on millions of TV screens worldwide – the tragic victim of a sniper enforcing a tyrannical regime’s edict. The inhumanity displayed by the Iranian leadership towards those of their citizens who insist on their constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully in public, shows clearly why the international community must not allow an Iran under their leadership, to develop a nuclear weapons programme under any circumstances. The international community must do all it can to enable the people of Iran rid themselves of a tyrannical regime that now seeks to enslave them.

Now that the scales have finally fallen off the eyes of those (including me) who used to regard him as a feisty developing world folk hero, who defied the imperialism of right-wing Western leaders such as George Bush and Dick Cheney, it is now patently clear to all that President Ahmadenijad, is in fact just another nasty little dictator, willing to kill to remain in power. Both the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamanei, and President Ahmadenijad, are ultimately responsible for the repression now going on in Iran, and must be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) – along with leaders of their ilk such as: George Bush; Dick Cheney; Tony Blair; the Burmese junta’s leaders; President Yaya Jameh of the Gambia; the Eritrean leader; that lunatic modern-day Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden; the Islamist leaders now busy destroying the Somali people in the name of Islamic purity; as well as the leadership of the Afghan and Pakistani Talibans.

The world has had enough of extremists and megalomaniacs who seek to impose their will on others, in their mad quest for world domination. All that humankind wants is to simply be allowed to live in peace, in all four corners of the vulnerable and fragile planet Earth that we share together – and as the good people of Iran fight to regain their freedom again, the members of the one human race must salute them for their bravery: for, their courageous fight for freedom, is also the fight of ordinary people the world over. We all share a common humanity and must do all we can to ensure that all the world’s peoples are free to live in peaceful and tolerant societies – and the indictment by the ICC, of the leaders of oppressive regimes, such as that of Iran today, is a powerful weapon in that fight. The ICC must indict Iran’s leaders as soon as it is practicable to do so. That is the most effective way of preventing the world’s other dictators from maiming and killing their people merely in order to hang on to power. Enough is enough – humankind has had enough of the world’s nasty little dictators.