Early on the morning of Saturday, December 3, 2016, MLI Munk Senior Fellow Shuvaloy Majumdar decided to respond to the full address by Iranian Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif at New Delhi’s Observer Research Foundation.
During the Twitter live-casting of the Iranian Minister’s address, Majumdar weighed in with his unvarnished views. Below is the transcript taken from @shuvmajumdar.
@orfonline @JZarif Explain the countless innocents murdered in Syria at the hands of Iran’s IRGC and sponsorship of Hezbollah.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Cynical, given terrorist forces stand alongside Syrian forces.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Strange moral equivalence for a country that pantomimes democracy and suppresses dissent brutally.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif In part because of #Iran‘s support for terror amidst Palestinians, for a wider hatred of Israel and the Jewish people.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Then explain Iran’s continuing aspirations of hegemony in Baghdad, Yemen, Damascus, Southern Lebanon, and beyond.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif In #Syria, this would have been resolved if Iran didn’t back Assad massacre his own people thru terror armies, weapons, $
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif #Iran would rather continue to see America languish in relativist mediocrity?
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif That explains #Iran‘s use of Hezbollah in Bulgaria, its militias in Iraq, support in Yemen, and projection of terrorism.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Please share this perspective with @HassanRouhani and @khamenei_ir
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Or your clerical regime’s provocative sectarianism throughout the Middle East in its adventures for hegemony.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif More an exploitation by #Iran of asymmetric and irregular warfare in its vast state sponsorship of terror.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif No, in #Iran, the ballot is decided by @khamenei_ir, women can’t compete for highest office, dissidents are brutalized.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Then explain levelling #Allepo. #Iran adventures will only radicalize Sunni populations and perpetuate crisis. Stop this.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif It is hatred and evil. This is morally equivalent drivel, next you will say it is climate change.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Because fascism and tyranny manifests itself in various forms. Pol Pot’s elite cadre were highly educated.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif The #Iran regime would know best, it has created an art out of radicalizing sectarian sentiments at an industrial scale.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif So maybe deeper introspection will be required with your partners in Damascus and Moscow.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif “At one time?” On every metric: human rights, nuclear ambition, sponsorship of terror, #Iran has yet to act responsibly.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Does this mean that you are announcing today an end of funding of soft power through Mosques throughout the region?
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Yup, there’s the pandering to climate change. And nonsensical rhetoric so distant from the deeds of your regime.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif “Action” like the genocide in Syria? It is deeply important that the world see what #Iran is doing to the Syrian people.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif It would be interesting to see what comes of the soul searching of the commanders that have murdered so many innocents.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Only if said diplomats are low calibre and prone to making recurrent, terrible decisions.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif So then what of the missiles #Iran is parading with capabilities of delivering nuclear payloads? Severe sincerity gap.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif And twice, in the last months, Iran has enhanced its own heavy water capacity. Why?
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif It holds the regime to account, appropriately so. Let us measure decisions on the basis of deeds, not words.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif How was there a win for Iranians seeking jobs and a decent life, when epic sanctions cash flowed to Assad in Syria?
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif By exploiting an American transition to conquer #Aleppo, present a fair accompli to the next administration?
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif The “resolution” Iran is advancing in #Syria is @ expense of scores of innocents-who right now as you speak-are dying.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif #Iran consumers have been paying the highest price because of the incapacity of the regime to reform.
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Or to deploy raids to create trouble for US ships and foment domestic propaganda victories. How’s that aircraft carrier?
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
@orfonline @JZarif Would that be the quality of education delivered to brainwash Iranian backed militias in Iraq and elsewhere?
— Shuvaloy Majumdar (@shuvmajumdar) December 3, 2016
