The triumph of the Islamic Revolution in Iran 31 years ago and the subsequent establishment of the Islamic Republic presented the world a model government based on people's aspirations with deep respect for human rights and humanitarian values.

At the same time it exposed the West's claim to democracy and human rights as an empty slogan for cheating world people. The US and the West European regimes have double-standard policies regarding people's aspirations and human rights. For instance, the West unabashedly supports minority regimes and tyrants in almost all 3rd World countries. But whenever people rise against the hegemonic policies of the US and its local agents, Washington, London, Paris and a few other countries, neither respect human rights nor democracy. The events in Iran are indicative of these diabolical policies of the West.

A look at the events of the past 65 years following the end of World War 2 shows how civilized the West is really is. It is no secret how the European powers killed and massacred people in various parts of the world in order to preserve their vested interests in countries wanting to be free and independent in the real sense of the terms. These very same West European regimes and the US have for the past 31 years since the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution, have spared no efforts in trying to undermine people's popular religious rule and human rights in Iran. It is also worth recalling that on the pretext of freedom, the US had dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, massacring hundreds of thousands of people. Later in Vietnam the US continued the same anti-human policies by waging war and killing countless people. The US also imposed on Latin American and African countries brutal military dictatorships. The chronic question of the Zionist usurped land of Palestine is another prime example of the suppression of human rights and democracy. Even today when the Palestinian people voted the Hamas Islamic Movement to form the elected government, the US and its West European accomplices have bitterly opposed the aspirations of the people. They instructed the usurper state of Israel to terrorize and kill the people in addition to devastating the infrastructure as happened last year during the 22-day holocaust in Gaza.

In Iran, the US supported the tyrannical British-installed Pahlavi regime against the Iranian people. Thanks to the wise leadership of that Sage of the Age, Imam Khomeini (may his soul rest in peace), the Shah's regime was ousted. The US was, and continues to be, the violator of human rights as is evident by its extreme opposition to Islamic Republic. Perhaps no people have suffered as much as the Iranians at the hands of the US and the West Europeans, especially Britain. For instance, the first freedom-seeking movement of the Iranian people that triumphed in 1905 and called the Constitutional Revolution was undermined by the British. The Qajarid Shah's power was curtailed and a parliament was established. But the British plotted and in the 1920s installed their mercenary, Reza Khan, as king on the Peacock Throne in Tehran. For almost two decades Reza Khan terrorized the Iranian before he was replaced by his son, Mohammad-Reza as king by the British. In the early 1950s when the Iranian people rose against the Pahlavi dictator and his colonial masters during the movement for nationalization of the oil industry led by Prime Minister

Mohammad Mossadeq and Ayatollah Seyyed Abu'l-Qassim Kashani, again the British interfered in the domestic affairs of Iran. The US and Britain joined together to restore the fugitive Shah on the throne against people's aspirations, by plotting the August 1953 coup against the legal government of Mosaddeq.

Thus the August 1953 coup was designed and implemented.

For almost the next 26 years, Mohamamd Reza Shah terrorized Iran with active US political and military backing. The CIA assisted him in setting up the notorious SAVAK to torture and kill the Iranian people

Jails were filled with revolutionaries and freedom-seekers by the Shah and his American backers. Thousands of revolutionaries lost their lives under the torture of SAVAK agents. During this period, the US, which unabashedly claims freedom and democracy, supported the Shah's despotic regime. With the victory of the Islamic Revolution in February 1979, Iran became free of both domestic tyranny and foreign hegemony. The Islamic revolution is indeed a turning point in Iran's history. Since the beginning of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the US adopted a hostile stance towards it. The US enmity has continued for the past 31 years in various ways. The US plots to undermine the Islamic Republic have failed. The US created riots and insecurity in Iran, launched an abortive military raid, and in September 1980 ordered its agent, Saddam, to impose the 8-year devastating war on the Islamic Republic. However, people's vigilance, coupled with the wise policies of the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini, and that of his successor, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei have defeated the American sedition. Even today, despite its claims to democracy and human rights, the US and West European accomplices have imposed economic sanctions on Iran, are supporting the MKO terrorists, are trying to prevent the progress of Iran, especially in the nuclear field, and inciting miscreants to loot public property and cause disturbances in the streets, as part of their hostility towards the popular system of religious rule in the Islamic Republic.