German Officials Clash with Iranian-American Activist, Masih Alinejad, in an Attempt To ‘Hide’ Dissidents of the Islamic Regime 

Masih Alinejad says that the German foreign ministry’s office fears upsetting its Iranian business partners even as they harbor terrorism.

Via Masih Alinejad
Sima Moradbeigi, an Iranian activist, who was injured in Azerbaijan in the summer of 2023. Via Masih Alinejad

Germany is siding with terrorists in the Middle East, says an Iranian-American journalist and activist, Masih Alinejad, after government officials refused to meet with her publicly to discuss Iran’s human rights violations. 

Ms. Alinejad abandoned a meeting scheduled with the German foreign ministry’s human rights commissioner, Luise Amtsberg, who insisted not only that they meet in private, but that she promise to not write about it on social media. That came after the foreign minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbock, declined to meet with Ms. Alinejad, who is fighting for human rights — especially women’s rights — in the Islamic Republic. 

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