16/01/2012
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage - torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians - which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by 'our' side...
George Orwell might have been describing almost exactly the Western response to the murder spree currently underway in Iran.
Last Wednesday, a motorcyclist attached a bomb to a car carrying a man called Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, killing him instantly, and injuring his two companions.
That was merely the latest atrocity inflicted upon individuals and facilities associated with nuclear physics in that country.
In December, seven people died in an explosion in Yazd. On November 28, a bomb seems to have gone off in nuclear facilities in Isfahan. On November 12, 17 people were killed by an explosion near Tehran. On July 23, a scientist called Darioush Rezaeinejad was shot through the throat outside his daughter's kindergarten. On November 29, 2010, Majid Shahriari was killed in the same way as Roshan, with a bomb planted in his car. Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani was also attacked, but survived. On January 12, another motorcycle bomber killed Masoud Alimohammadi.
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