The President of Ukraine spoke today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and among other things he talked about Iran.<\/p>\n
As you may recall, ten days ago Volodymyr Zelensky called on<\/a> Every leader, every country, and international organizations to \"step in now and help the people remove those guilty of what Iran has sadly become.<\/strong>\"<\/em> Unfortunately, his words received little attention.<\/p>\n This afternoon, during his speech in Davos (you can listen to it in full here<\/a>, point 9:09 of the video), the President of Ukraine referred to Iran again:<\/strong><\/p>\n \"There was so much talk about the protests in Iran. But they drowned in blood. The world has not helped enough the Iranian people.<\/strong> And it's true. It has stood aside in your early days. By the time politicians came back to work and started forming a position there, the ayatollah has already killed thousands. And what will Iran become after this bloodshed?<\/strong> If the regime survives, it sends a clear signal to every bully. Kill enough people and you stay in power.<\/strong> Who in Europe needs that message to become a reality? And yet Europe hasn't even tried to build its own response.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n A few minutes later, Zelenski referred to the issue of Iran again<\/strong> (point 17:42 of the video):<\/p>\n \"As for Iran, everyone is waiting to see what America will do. And the world offers nothing.<\/strong> Europe offers nothing and doesn't not want to enter this issue at the supporter of the Iranian people and the democracy they need. But when you refuse to help a people fighting for freedom, the consequences return and they are always negative. Belarus in 2020 is the example.<\/strong> No one helped their people and now Russian Oreshnik missiles are deployed in Belarus within range of most European capitals. That would not have happened if the Belarussian people had won in 2020. And we have told our European partners multiple times: \u201cAct now.\u201d<\/strong> Act now against those missiles in Belarus. Missiles are never just decoration. But Europe still remains in Greenland mode. Maybe someday someone will do something.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This week we learned the effects of that lack of reaction not only from Europe, but also from the United States<\/strong> (recall that Trump announced<\/a> on January 13 that \"help is on the way,\" but eight days later that help still hasn't arrived). Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, stated<\/a> that the number of civilians killed in the crackdown on the protests amounts to at least 5,000<\/strong>, although the real figure could be much higher. Citing reports from Iranian doctors, Mai Sato added that the figure could be at least 20,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Let us recall that the protests in Iran began on December 28<\/a>. Almost a month has passed. After all this time, Europe's response has been to approve a resolution in the European Parliament today condemning the repression in Iran<\/a>. For weeks, thousands of protesters have been killed in Iran, but Europe is only able to issue a statement that will have no practical effect, as it is not even binding on EU member states.<\/p>\n How many protesters would have to be killed in Iran for Europe to launch an attack against that monstrous dictatorship?<\/strong> 50,000, 100,000, 300,000, a million? What good are resolutions of condemnation if, for the people of Iran, as before for the people of Belarus, these documents do not translate into any kind of action that can stop criminals like Khamenei or Lukashenko?<\/p>\n Have we truly learned anything from our recent history?<\/strong> Would a resolution of condemnation have been of any use in the face of the German-Soviet invasion of Poland or the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis? Have these resolutions condemning Russia's criminal aggression against the Ukrainian people served any purpose?<\/strong> If Europe wants to begin to have any real weight in the world, it must assume its responsibility and start taking real action.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n Photo: AP.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The President of Ukraine spoke today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and among other things he talked about Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10373],"tags":[822,15307,16074],"class_list":["post-63025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-iran","tag-ukraine","tag-volodimir-zelenski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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