German appeasement of Khamenei endangers Iranians and the world
Back in 2008, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled “Germany Loves Iran” and a piece headlined “Berlin ♥ Iran III” that covered workshops designed to help companies boost trade with the Islamic Republic.
The editorials explained why the “Islamic Republic is so much in vogue” in Germany.
Fast-forward 13 years and one sees that the German government’s infatuation with the clerical regime in Tehran has only gotten worse, and this at the expense of German citizens and repressed Iranians.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration remains disturbingly unconcerned about the Iranian government’s kidnapping of German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd because he opposes the Islamic Republic. He has been held largely incommunicado since his abduction a little over a year ago during a visit to the United Arab Emirates.
Jamshid’s daughter Gazelle appealed(link is external) on Twitter to the German foreign ministry and to Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs at the U.S. State Department, to not turn “a blind eye anymore” to her father’s situation, whose health is worsening due to Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Sharmahd is a legal resident of California.
When we submitted questions to Michaela Engelmeier, a former member of the Bundestag for the German Social Democratic Party, about her SPD party’s largely pro-Iranian regime policies, she refused to answer and blocked one of us on Twitter.
Gazelle wrote about Engelmeier: “Wondering if these people think they can also easily block the consequences of supporting policies that allow crimes against humanity such as terror, torture, kidnapping or execution in real life?”
The Social Democratic Party controls the foreign ministry and its chief diplomat, Heiko Maas, has sent high level representatives to Tehran’s embassy over the years to celebrate the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Ms. Cohanim was the State Department’s first Iranian-born Envoy, and led diplomatic initiatives which resulted in forging groundbreaking partnerships in the Arab world to combat anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and Islamophobia. Ms. Cohanim also persuaded the first-ever Muslim faith group to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism, all as part of the Abraham Accords efforts. As Deputy Envoy, Ms. Cohanim was the lead official for the State Department in creating and implementing policy on countering anti-Semitism in the Near East and Western Hemisphere regions. She worked closely with Jewish communities in Venezuela, Chile, Argentina and Colombia in confronting local issues of anti-Semitism.
Ms. Cohanim can often be seen on Fox News and Newsmax; and is a contributor to National Review, Newsweek, The Hill and Washington Examiner.
Ellie Cohanim arrived as a child refugee to the US, after she and her family fled the escalating anti-Semitism in Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Previously, Ellie Cohanim was Senior Vice President and Special Correspondent for the Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) and was an executive at Yeshiva University; The Jewish Theological Seminary; and UJA-Federation of New York. She serves on the boards of the Iranian-American Jewish Federation of NY and Latino Coalition for Israel; and has previously served on the boards of the American Jewish Committee (AJC-NYR), the New York Jewish Community Relations Council, and the Ester Chapter of Hadassah.
Ellie Cohanim received her B.A. in Political Science, Cum Laude, from Barnard College, Columbia University; and conducted graduate study in International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is fluent in Hebrew and Farsi, familiar with German, Arabic and Spanish.
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