TEHRAN, Dec 8 (NNN-IRNA) – Ahead of the “Summit for Democracy,” proposed by the United States, Iranian media and analysts questioned the competence of the United States, in “trying to lead democracies” as many U.S. actions go contrary to this.
Today, despite the U.S. claim to portray “high democracy in the world,” there is “more awareness of the reality” in the country, among people of the world and even in the United States, the Tehran Times said, in an op-ed published on Monday.
The democracy defined by the United States has shortcomings in its way of electing representatives for the U.S. Congress, the newspaper said, adding that, those who have the ability to “create an advertising campaign” are selected.
As a “part of the defect and deficiency of American democracy,” the system of “colluding” in the United States, offers money and financial resources for U.S. Congress people, but the interests of the nation are “not taken into consideration,” the Tehran Times said.
Internationally, through its actions in the Middle East, the United States has shown that, it does not care about democracy in other countries, and it only believes in democracy that is “close to its ideals and standards,” or “in compliance with its political and international interests,” it said.
Over the last two decades, the world has witnessed “different forms and degrees of various democracies, according to the cultures, traditions, and societies in Asia and Africa, which represent a colourful and diverse range that can potentially exist in different societies,” it said.
Such a reality also helps the world become well aware of the “complexity of democracy that the United States lacks,” it added.
The United States not only is “gripped by numerous problems” in its foreign policy, like the recent developments in Afghanistan, but also faces huge challenges in its domestic affairs, concerning human rights, said Foad Izadi, an Iranian scholar and political analyst of American studies, at the University of Tehran.
Domestically, incidents violating human rights are very frequent in the United States, while Washington’s moves to impose sanctions at the international level and carry out assassination attacks are also frequently seen, Izadi said, in an article published Monday, by multiple Iranian media outlets.
“The irony is that, the U.S. is a self-proclaimed advocate of democracy, and leader of democratic states,” Izadi said.
In a recent interview with Fars News Agency, Mohammad Hassan Asfari, a member of the Iranian Parliament, said, the U.S. sanctions imposed on the Iranian economy, health and livelihood, constitute “a clear example of human rights abuses.”
“There are more than one million patients in Iran, that the country cannot provide items and supplies and even some special medicines for them, due to the sanctions imposed by the United States against Iran,” he noted.
“One of the goals of the United States in holding the summit is, to cover up its heinous moves, taken against human rights in the first place, and then to restore its lost prestige, in the international community,” Hossein Ali Haji Deligani, a member of the Iranian Parliament Presidium, told Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
Yet, such a goal cannot be achieved, as the real objectives of the United States have become clear to all countries, the lawmaker said.
The United States has lost its prestige, as it acts against democracy and human rights, he said.
Taking the U.S. military actions in Afghanistan as an example, the Iranian lawmaker said, these malicious behaviours will never be erased from the public mind.
Similarly, noting that the upcoming “summit” reflects Washington’s attitude towards “the countries that oppose U.S. excessive demands.” The Tehran Times said that, the United States will “certainly not be able to achieve its desired package of democratic and non-democratic blocs.”
This “summit” will be “fruitless,” it added.– NNN-IRNA
