CODE PINK is a deranged group of
radical women who have become allies to the most dangerous anti-democratic regimes.
They call themselves a “grassroots peace and social justice movement”
but the last thing they do is help grassroots people, particularly women, achieve peace and
social justice. Let me give just one shocking example of their fraud.
CODE PINK took a delegation of
their leading activists to – wait for it – Iran!
They did not go to protest the frightful
abuses that the Islamic regime imposes on its suffering people. No. The
highlight of their trip was a meeting with the Iranian Foreign Minister,
Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Let me show you how this women’s
liberation movement prepared their delegates for their trip to Tehran. Their dress code instructions read;
For Women: you must always
have/wear a tunic or a long coat (long enough to cover your butt) over your
regular clothes and are required to cover your heads with a scarf when you are
out in public.
At home they demonstrate against “masculine
domination” and “white male supremacists,” but in Iran they eagerly surrendered
their feminist policies to appease and appeal to the Islamic dictators.
They told their delegates that a
dress code would be enforced as soon as their plane landed;
**IMPORTANT** their
instructions screamed. Please make sure you have your scarf and long
short/tunic/coat with you in your handbag and not in your suitcase on the
plane. You will need to wear the head scarf and be covered before you step off
the airplane and into the airport in Iran.
CODE PINK became DRESS CODE. They
surrendered their civil rights manifesto as soon as their plane touched down in
Iran.
They described their meeting with
Zarif as “an extraordinary meeting.” What is extraordinary to clear
headed people was they sat there and soaked in the Zarif nonsense that the
concept of “independence” is the principle driving Iranian foreign policy. Try
telling that to the people of Lebanon, Yemen, Israel, and the dead Jews of
Argentina.
Zarif told his gullible visitors
that the cause of the problem between the United States and Iran was not about
nuclear weapons. It was about Iran’s 1979 revolution that gave it its independence.
Perhaps CODE PINK thinks that America is
the Great Satan. They certainly behave as if they do. And, for sure, they believe that Israel is the
Little Satan. They prove it by their words and deeds. So CODE PINK are now fully allied with the Mad
Mullahs of Tehran.
Zarif made reference to Iran’s “endogenous
security.” CODE PINK loved that, but
one thing they didn’t do was to meet ordinary Iranians to let them know that
one of their top leaders told them that endogenous security is one of
the guiding principles of the regime.
CODE PINK may have a color
included in their name but they are blind and unfeeling about the horrific restraints
under which CODE PINK’s hosts have placed them. For an NGO that boats they
support civil rights they were shockingly mindless to the abuses that Zarif and
his regime inflict on their people.
CODE PINK flew in and out of Iran
untouched by the atrocities they claim to care for.
In their guidelines they point
out that “Social media such as Facebook and Twitter are heavily filtered in
Iran.” They make it sound as if Iranians
could face a 30-day block if they post a nasty word on their social media that
might infringe Iranian Community Standards. CODE PINK’s “heavily filtered” Iranian
social media means 30 years in an Iranian jail, or worse.
Further supplication to the
regime came at the CODE PINK press conference in Tehran where they acted as the
Ayatollah’s stooges by explaining to the Iranian media that Israel and Saudi
Arabia had forced President Donald Trump to drop out of the Iranian nuclear
deal.
On a visit to the ridiculously
named Peace Museum, the delegates gifted the museum with books on peace
activism.
Liat Collins wrote about CODE
PINK in her Jerusalem Post column on March 19;
” The irony seems to be lost
on them. Tehran’s tentacles of terror have been felt around the world, from
Argentina to Yemen. The regime funds recognized terrorist organizations Hamas
and Hezbollah, among others. It has not given up its plans for nuclear weapons –
and continues to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying
nuclear warheads…it arrests peace activists and organizes rallies where the
Israeli, American and Saudi flags are burned. And it openly proclaims its aim
is to wiped Israel off the face of the earth.”
CODE PINK flew to Tehran to suck
up to a regime that hangs gays in public. Iran is a country in which child
brides are married off to lecherous pedophiles. In Iran, girls are sentenced to
death from the age of nine and, according to UN figures, at least thirty-three
have been executed since 2013. Iran persecuted minorities including Christians,
Baha’i and Kurds.
Yet CODE PINK is oblivious to all
of this as they pally up to the ruthless leaders.
CODE PINK say they are “internationally
active” in social justice. No, they are not.
As they left the smiling Zarif
and departed Tehran, a female Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, was
sentenced to thirty-eight years in jail. She also received an added punishment
of 148 lashes. Her crime was defending the right of women to appear in public
without their heads covered.
As Nasrin Sotoudeh was being
dragged off to suffer 148 lashes and the rest of her life in an Iranian prison,
CODE PINK hypocrites were removing their scarfs as they stepped aboard their flight
back to the United States.
Sotoudeh is a true heroine for
women but, as Liat Collins wrote at the end of her column, CODE PINK makes me
see red!
Barry Shaw is the International Public Diplomacy
Associate at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He writes a blog The
View from Israel and has authored several books including ‘BDS for
IDIOTS.’
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