The appeasement of Iran.
Terrorist convictions in New York are a wake-up call for a west that's in denial
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A criminal case in America that’s just ended has directed a spotlight onto Britain’s lackadaisical attitude to Iranian terrorism. Two men were found guilty of what the US Department of Justice called a “brazen plot” to murder a female Iranian dissident on American soil.
The Iranian regime has been trying to silence this dissident, Masih Alinejad, for years. Alinejad, a journalist, author and activist who has lived permanently in America since 2014 and has consistently drawn attention to Iran’s human rights abuses, has suffered harassment, intimidation and previous attempts on her life.
In 2020, Iranian intelligence officials and assets plotted to kidnap her from the US for rendition to Iran. In the case that finished last week, two members of an eastern European organised crime gang had been hired by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to murder her in New York.
The court heard that a hitman with an AK-47 had camped outside her Brooklyn home to kill her. She had spotted one of the plotters behaving suspiciously while she was gathering tomatoes and cucumbers from her garden.
After the convictions of her would-be assassins, Alinejad — who has nine million Instagram followers, especially among young Iranian women in revolt against the regime’s brutal enforcement of the hijab to cover their hair — noted the silence about the convictions by left-wingers who had “called me an Islamophobe” as well as by “the campus protesters chanting ‘I am Hamas’.”
The same left-wing “feminists,” of course, who have ignored or tried to deny the rape, mutilation, torture and burning alive of young Israeli women during the atrocities of October 7 2023. The same liberal world that demonises Israel and the west while sanitising and appeasing their Islamist attackers. And the west’s resolute refusal in particular to deal with the Iranian regime that is pledged to destroy it is beyond perplexing...
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