A Lesson in Chutzpah

According to this, Iran has decided to upbraid the Swedes, who hold the EU's rotating presidency, about the EU's double standards when dealing with human rights.

One must wonder whether the "play the victim" card will work yet again. It is always a concern if the EU (or any of its member states) reply to this sort of thing with a moral-equivalence response of the "yes, we understand that Iran has a good point, blah blah blah" type. It sends yet another signal that the democratic West is all too ready to give up the moral high ground and spend more time trying to therapeutically analyze this regime; this only emboldens it and disheartens additional dissidents.

The Swedish Foreign Minister, Magnus Wernstedt, said that he would look into it. I for one hope that he makes a good hard examination of the torture and rape being committed in Iranian jails and calls them back collect.