\u201chelp is on the way,\u201d<\/a> made it even more unacceptable that Washington failed to secure guarantees for Iranians detained by the regime during its negotiations with Tehran.<\/p>\n\u201cThe result of the war is that we right now see a US president who supports this regime like no president before him,\u201d he continued, referencing the strong financial infusion the regime has acquired through the MoU, which demands very little adjustment from Iran domestically.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m especially disappointed by the Americans that they don’t mention the human rights in Iran by a single word, by a single sentence. I think their role should not be to give too easy a pass to this brutal regime that massacres its own population. I think that they should create more pressure on this brutal and evil regime, but that is not what they are doing,\u201d Lucks said, adding that the rights of Iranian people are being strategically forgotten as part of an exchange for a short-term pause in geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don’t really care about human rights, and I think they need to highlight these topics, and if the Americans don’t do that, the Europeans should,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n
Though Lucks acknowledged Europe\u2019s ability to have an impact on the regime, he also acknowledged a growing unwillingness from \u201ccynical\u201d camps on the left and right to pursue action against Iran.<\/p>\n
Parts of the left are unwilling to act out of a moral objection to pushing what they consider to be Western standards of human rights, and part of the right is unwilling to take action as they believe more meaningful influence can be held with Iran through the establishment and expansion of trade and economic ties, Lucks explained.<\/p>\n
EU member states, namely France, Germany \u200cand Italy, also expressed their willingness to ease sanctions following the signing of the MoU, in exchange for Iran\u2019s commitment to never obtain nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that was such a cynical decision coming from different European Union member states to lower the level of sanctions to this regime right now, because what has changed? Nothing has changed. They are still responsible for what is going on in the whole Middle East region,\u201d Lucks said. \u201cThey are still responsible for the most basic violations of human rights that we’ve ever seen, and European Union member states lower their sanctions, and I think this is a wrong strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Questioned on the effectiveness of sanctions as a strategy, as it has often been reported that Iranian civil society has paid the price rather than the regime\u2019s leadership, Lucks acknowledged that there had to be some thought in how to ensure that the people were shielded from their impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that we really need to work on our effectiveness as Europeans to hit those responsible for violations of human rights with our sanctions. The prices for the Iranian civilian population are very high, but the kids of representatives of this regime still go to universities all across Europe. They still have bank accounts in Europe, and especially also in Switzerland, for example. They still have banks operating between Tehran and German cities, so we still have banks here in Germany who have one office in China and one office in Munich, and this is something just not acceptable, and that is working for the regime, and that is what we need to really break through,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n
The war did not win a better future for the Iranian people<\/p>\n
With the war in Iran unsuccessful at ensuring a better future for the Iranian people, and sanctions not hitting Iran the way they are intended to, Lucks said Europe could focus on helping the Iranian opposition formulate an alternative for the day the regime does fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe room to create an alternative is not in Iran; it has to be in the exile,\u201d he highlighted. \u201cAnd that was also one very important conclusion of my report at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, that this place should be Strasbourg. I think we would reach so many things by bringing all the very different Iranian democratic voices in exile together and helping them to become more unified and clearer and to really provide things for their own future.\u201d<\/p>\n
With no signs that the Islamic regime will begin honoring the human rights of the Iranian people anytime soon, Lucks seemed to feel the only possible thing to do is wait and prepare.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis regime does not have a chance of a majority in its own society. The overall majority of Iranian people oppose their rule, and I think this is important to understand. So, I think that there will be many chances of change, and that we should support them when it comes to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Concluding the interview, Lucks took a final swipe at Trump, telling The Post that the president\u2019s unfulfilled promise to Iranians risking their lives in the streets of Iran would remain \u201ca shame for the history books.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEurope can’t join a war when it is uncertain of the consequences for international law,\u201d German politician Max…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,63,42,1155,23023,87,79845,43,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-518380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-headlines","tag-human-rights","tag-international-law","tag-iran","tag-islamic-regime","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Smoke and flames rise at the site of airstrikes on an oil depot in Tehran on March 7, 2026. (credit: Sasan \/ Middle East Images \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n