Why are the world’s loudest 'progressive' voices silent on Iran?Opinion by Jake Wallis Simons
The Iranian uprising is one of the three most moving expressions of human defiance so far this century. If the regime is toppled, it will constitute a fulcrum in the history of the world. Yet the hypocritical response from the liberal establishment has been as nauseating as it has been infuriating.
From Keir Starmer to Gary Lineker, a startling number of our loudest “human rights” voices seem to be taking the words of the Persian mystic Rumi – “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there” – rather too literally.
Surely, if there was ever a moment not to go beyond “ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing”, now would be the time. Yet in addition to Starmer (a weakling statement with France and Germany, and refusing to proscribe the IRGC) and Lineker (silence), armies of Western notables are either downplaying or simply ignoring this dramatic struggle for freedom.
These are the people that are passionate when their activism harms the West, but whose voices seem to desert them when the tyrant wears a turban. This is especially true of those who have built their politics on an obsession with “Palestine”. Which, coincidentally enough, is something they have in common with the Iranian regime.
Remember, for instance, the UN’s oily humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher? He who falsely claimed that “14,000 babies” were facing starvation in Gaza, and went on to post preening video selfies of himself bravely helping the Palestinians? So far, as far as I can see, the chap has posted nothing on Iran. Which, for the “under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs”, is quite the omission.
This wholesale depravity from those who signal their virtue loudest is enough to make you vomit with rage. But it should hardly be a surprise: the Left has form, especially when it comes to Iran.
Rewind to 1979 and progressive intellectuals were falling over themselves to support the Ayatollah as he overthrew the Shah and seized power.
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