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press that the actions are legal because they comply with achieving this status, the new nation also gained the right 42
American law, eliciting no particular comment. to act as it wished internally.
News Agency (HRANA), these three prisoners of 1392 ‫ نابآ‬17 ‫ جمعه‬- 1264 ‫ شماره‬/ ‫سال مکی‌‌و تسیب‬
Principles are valid only if they are universal. Reactions It could thus proceed to rid itself of the indigenous conscience and the followers of Yari ethic Ahl-e-Hagh
would be a bit different, needless to say, if Cuban special population and to expand slavery, an institution so have been exiled to 2 different prisons in Yazd prison on
forces kidnapped the prominent terrorist Luis Posada “odious” that it could not be tolerated in England, as the Monday November 4th.
Carriles in Miami, bringing him to Cuba for interrogation distinguished jurist William Murray, Earl of Mansfield,
and trial in accordance with Cuban law. ruled in 1772. Evolving English law was a factor An informed source told to HRANA: “Sahand Ali
impelling the slave-owning society to escape its reach. Mohammadi has been exiled to Ardakan prison and
Such actions are restricted to rogue states. More Bakhsh Ali Mohammadi and Ebadollah Ghasem Zadeh
accurately, to the one rogue state that is powerful Becoming a treaty-worthy nation thus conferred are exiled to Yazd central prison.”
enough to act with impunity: in recent years, to carry out multiple advantages: foreign recognition, and the
aggression at will, to terrorize large regions of the world freedom to act at home without interference. Hegemonic These 3 prisoners had been arrested in a contention
with drone attacks, and much else. power offers the opportunity to become a rogue state, with police forces in Oj Tappeh village of Miyandoab in
freely defying international law and norms, while facing 2004 and were sentenced to death in the revolutionary
And to defy the world in other ways, for example by increased resistance abroad and contributing to its own court on charge of enmity against the God which was
persisting in its embargo against Cuba despite the long- decline through self-inflicted wounds. reduced in the appeal court.
term opposition of the entire world, apart from Israel,
which voted with its protector when the United Nations Noam Chomsky’s most recent book is ‘’Occupy.’’ The contention happened when polices insulted their
again condemned the embargo (188-2) in October. Chomsky is emeritus professor of linguistics and religious beliefs.
philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Whatever the world may think, U.S. actions are in Cambridge, Mass. Sahand Ali Mohammadi, Bakhsh Ali Mohammadi and
legitimate because we say so.The principle was enunciated Ebadollah Ghasem Zadeh were sentenced to 13 years in
by the eminent statesman Dean Acheson in 1962, when Distributed by The New York Times Syndicate prison but Mehdi Ghasem Zadeh was sentenced to death
he instructed the American Society of International Law © 2012 Noam Chomsky and was hanged in February 2008.
that no legal issue arises when the United States responds This article was originally published at Truthout
to a challenge to its “power, position, and prestige.” Younes Aghayan, another imprisoned Ahl-E-Hagh
3 Ahl-E-Hagh prisoners is also sentenced to death. The Supreme Court has
Cuba committed that crime when it beat back a U.S. confirmed the death verdict and there are serious worries
invasion and then had the audacity to survive an assault are exiled from Uremia about the probability of enforcement of its enforcement.
designed to bring “the terrors of the earth” to Cuba, in
the words of Kennedy adviser and historian Arthur to Yazd
Schlesinger.
Bakhsh Ali Mohammadi
When the U.S. gained independence, it sought to join
the international community of the day. That is why the HRANA News Agency - Bakhsh Ali Mohammadi,
Declaration of Independence opens by expressing concern Sahand Ali Mohammadi and Ebadollah Ghasem Zadeh,
for the “decent respect to the opinions of mankind.” the 3 Ahl-E-Hagh prisoners, are exiled from Uremia to
Yazd.
A crucial element was evolution from a disorderly
confederacy to a unified “treaty-worthy nation,” in According to the report of Human Rights Activists
diplomatic historian Eliga H. Gould’s phrase, that
observed the conventions of the European order. By

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