July 12, 2011
Attention:
News, Features, Government/Political Affairs, Religion Editors
July 8, 2011 - John Baird, Canada’s Foreign
Affairs Minister, today announced that Canada, together with the United Kingdom
and the United States, is increasing restrictions on the Iranian authorities to
hold them accountable for their international human rights obligations (1).
“This is not a sincere statement,” said Ms. Homa Arjomand, Coordinator of the
International Campaign to close down Iranian Embassies.
Ms Arjomand further stated, “To take Mr.
Baird’s statement seriously, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States
need to expel the Islamic regime of Iran from all the International Agencies
and close down all Iranian Embassies in their countries. Furthermore they need
to freeze all bank accounts of the leaders of Islamic Republic of Iran, at
least in their own countries and finally arrest and try all its leaders in an
international court for their crimes against humanity.”
Arjomand continued by stating, “It was not long
before, on March 4th, 2011, that United Nation shamefully appointed the Islamic
Republic of Iran to become a member of the United Nation’s Commission on the
Status of Women. Such an action purposely makes a mockery of the work done by
women’s rights activists.” She further stated that “Discrimination against
women and the oppression of women under the law of Sharia, led and controlled
by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the
head of state terrorism, have taken the most grotesque and outrageous forms. It
is widely known that women’s rights have been increasingly under attack and
they are being subjected to abuse for disobeying Islamic standards. Daily degradation of women, prohibition from
many forms of employment, field of study and sports, sexual segregation in
buses, schools and public places, stoning to death of women or murdering them
for sexual relations outside marriage, acid-throwing in the faces of women and
flogging in public for putting on makeup, arresting and gang raping women are
routine practices of this cruel regime.
The reality is that there has not been a day without violations against
a number of protesting groups such as teachers, workers, students, writers,
journalists and bloggers. The number of people being executed and tortured in
prisons increases day by day. Over 100,000 execution since the birth of Islamic
Regime of Iran should make every concerned citizen wonder how could this regime be tolerated.
As Homa
Arjomand had previously stated in a Public Announcement on July 21 2009, “the
Islamic Republic of Iran is directly responsible for terrorizing people
globally as well with its daily crimes against humanity from Iran, Afghanistan
and Pakistan to Algeria and Palestine, even in the heart of Europe and the
North America; from imposing reactionary and anti-human Islamic laws on people,
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In that same announcement in 2009 Ms Arjomand went further to state that “the
Islamic Republic of Iran is directly responsible for sustaining terrorism as a
main tool in further deepening the national, ethnic and religious splits in the
Middle East and keeping alive this conflict as political capital and source for
its power.”
Homa Arjomand, the coordinator of the
International campaign to close down Iranian Embassies as well as the
coordinator of the International Campaign against Sharia Court in Canada urges
the Canadian Government, the United Kingdom, and the United States to break all
their diplomatic ties with the Iranian Regime and close down this Regime’s
embassies immediately in order to, as Mr. Baird says, “increase restrictions on
the Iranian authorities so as to hold them accountable for their international
human rights obligations.”
Media Contact:
Ms. Homa Arjomand 1- 416-737- 9500
Email: homawpi@nosharia.com Web site:
www.closedowniranianembassies.com, www.nosharia.com
1.
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
Canada Supports Intensified Restrictions on Iran.2011, from: http://www.international.gc.ca/media/aff/news-ommuniques/2011/194.aspx?lang=en