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Another Clinton outrage
Foreign Affairs Opinion (Published) Keywords: IRAN
Source: Oakland Tribune
Published: June 7, 2000 Author: Charley Reese
Posted on 06/07/2000 10:04:02 PDT by JeanS
EVERY time I think the Clinton administration has reached the apex of outrages,
it tops itself.
The latest? The administration apparently intends to trade a young woman's life
for some secret back-room deal it is trying to make with the mullahs ruling
Iran.
Mahnaz Samadi, 35, an Iranian feminist and human-rights activist who was
granted political asylum in 1995, was arrested this year and is being treated by
the Immigration and Naturalization Service almost as inhumanely as the Iranian
government treated her. Her alleged crime? She tried to liberate Iran --
not during the years she has lived in this country but before she arrived.
Now make sense out of this. The U.S. government has officially branded Iran as a
sponsor of terrorism. It has passed all kinds of punitive laws against Iran. Yet
it has now belatedly decided that those Iranians who fight against the same
Iranian government the United States opposes are now terrorists.
Since she was granted asylum, Ms. Samadi has simply made speeches on behalf of
human rights and particularly on behalf of the rights of women in Iran.
She was arrested in Iran at the age of 17, sexually abused, tortured and held in
prison for four years. She was forced to watch her younger brother being
tortured. He and another brother were later executed. Her parents died of a
broken heart. Her younger sister was imprisoned for 10 years.
When she was released, she continued to work in the underground for human
rights until 1991 when she went into hiding in Iranian Kurdistan to escape
arrest. She went to Iraq and there joined the resistance. Later she went back to
Iranian Kurdistan and finally made her way to the United States.
Now, get this. The resistance she joined, the National Liberation Army, was not
designated a terrorist organization at the time she was a member. The Clinton
administration arbitrarily labeled it terrorist in 1997 -- two years after she
was granted asylum. Members of Congress, members of the U.S. Senate, and
parliamentary majorities in Britain, Italy and Belgium have recognized the NLA
as a legitimate resistance organization.
Ms. Samadi, arrested in Buffalo, N.Y., has been subjected to the federal
shuffle -- suddenly moved from one jail to another -- denied bail, and is now
being held in an Alabama county jail, far away from her attorneys and the people
who are trying to help her. Even though a federal judge has transferred her case
to Arlington, Va., the INS has refused to move her from Alabama. When her
attorney visited her, the Farsi translator was denied admission, and after every
visit by her attorney, she is strip-searched. If the Clinton administration
sends this woman back to Iran, it will be an act of coldblooded murder. She will
be tortured and publicly executed, and the Iranian government is already saying
publicly that Clinton is going to deport her -- before she's even had a hearing.
Obviously the administration is hoping to trade an innocent human life for some
favor from the mullahs. What, I don't know, but the evil of this administration
has no bottom.
IT'S bad enough to send a 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez back to be brainwashed in
Cuba so some American businessman can cut a deal with Castro. Now it is
condemning an innocent woman to death in pursuit of some hidden agenda.
Even Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., normally an ardent Clinton supporter, is
raising hell about this, as indeed the American people should. To condemn an
innocent woman to death because she tried to liberate Iran is blasphemy against
the Declaration of Independence.
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