A billboard in Muharraq, Bahrain, demanding no leniency for those who are against the regime. Photo: Hasan Jamali/APThe European Union and the Obama administration have a wonderful kind of double standard by imposing sanctions on Tehran rulers for their violations of human rights and military measures against the Libyan dictator while failed the terrible repression of the democracy movement in Bahrain address made.
For the United States and the EU, to preserve the entitlement principles of interests, especially harmful intervention in Bahrain is this contradictory policy and its silence about the Saudi.
In fact, it is hypocrisy of the history books - by later historians as a reflection of the dominance of Western Realpolitik of values are interpreted. How else can one the fact interpret, that so far EU US officials have paid minimal attention to the brutal crackdown in Bahrain, which has led to dozens of deaths and imprisonment of several hundred demonstrators according to various human rights organizations?
Instead of the condemnation of the Bahraini Government repression of its citizens and ensure the legitimate protesters call for a constitutional monarchy, have the EU and the United States limited statements to nothing without to take actions of the political crisis in Bahrain proportional to the gravity. The only exception is the rare show bravado by Zsolt Nemeth, the Hungarian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (also a EU official), the a Libya-style NATO intervention in Bahrain has represented.
No other EU officials, has Németh, seconded, came under fire for making "empty threats" in the view of the fact that Bahrain to the US fifth fleet and therefore a crucial piece of "American turf" home. Nemeth's heroic statement coincided with the EU latest move, freeze the assets and space travel bans on 32 Iranian officials for violations of human rights. Earlier, the US and Sweden had together a United Nations resolution appointing an observer sponsored human rights for the Iran.
To their credit, the EU foreign policy Chief, Catherine Ashton and its foreign policy team have wisely isolating itself from the Saudi Bahrain/in PR campaign, to streamline Bahrain's repressive behavior of scapegoating Iran. In comparison the Obama has administration reversed as in the changing position of the Secretary of Defense of Robert Gates, in his recent trip to the region, over his approval in March, that no evidence vice versa there on Iranian interference in Bahrain.
In addition to the principles, the EU and the United States have geo-strategic interests that require a careful and long-term policy to the one diametrically is Bahraini crisis, the current short-sighted approach different. The EU and the United States need to understand that their Obliviousness to pile up the resentment in Bahrain and elsewhere in the changing Middle East is bound to against their long-term and strategic interests in the region to backfire.
A politically and strategically correct approach provides a how to with the following lines: strong and sustainable condemnation of the Bahraini Government for its violations of human rights; Threat of diplomatic reprisals; Warning to impose freezing Bahrain assets and travel bans on various Bahrain officials involved in human rights violations; Call for Saudi Arabia, the democratic aspirations of the Bahraini people respect and his military forces withdraw from Bahrain; offers in the political crisis to give Bahrain; and to facilitate the process towards free elections.
Only by concrete and proactive measures such as these, the EU and the United States of their can infect damaged standing in the Middle East due to the double standards policy recover. Given the fact that the Shiite leaders in the Iran as much about their underprivileged Shia look after brothers in Bahrain, a more principled EU-United States approach is to improve the Rocky Iran-EU relations and to minimize tensions with the United States, positively influence the deadlocked negotiations about their nuclear standoff bound.
On the other page, lack of real pressure from the EU and the United States, as compared to their exploits on the Iran, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain applied only Gulf of mistrust between Iran and the West, deepen the available so that it is less likely, that Tehran recent offer of the improvement in relations will take seriously EU.
Tehran is also inflexible with regard to its tensions with the United States, nuclear programmes and human rights violations when a scenario of a EU United States double standards.
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