Iran envoy slams Aussie pols' insults to Iranian émigré

'According to the Sydney Police, an Iranian couple was charged with selling crystal or ice in an immigrants' camp,' said Andolhussein Vahaji.

The incident was shown in a program titled 'A Current Affair on 26th February 2018'. In the program, Senator Pauline Hanson claimed that Iran disagrees with extradition of criminals and Labor leader Mark Latham called them 'trash'.

Iranian ambassador to Australia, condemned such crimes, but also reminded that Iran is a neighbor of Afghanistan and on the narcotics transit route.

The Iranian Embassy in Canberra also published a statement on Friday about the issue.

'The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran would like to notify the Esteemed Director of the Nine News of the following points so that you may adopt a fair and balanced approach in dealing with the Iranian community by publishing the Embassy’s response,' wrote the statement.

Surprisingly such remarks said on TV in Australia, while among the Iranian community of Australia 'there are a large number of educated and skilled workers that due to the economic or social reasons have preferred to come and live in Australia.'

'By the same token it is quite obvious that the convection of few Australian citizens for supplying industrial drugs in one of the neighboring countries of Australia cannot and should not be applied to the entire Australian community.'

It may be noteworthy that some Australian nationals are imprisoned in Bali and Thailand with the drug-related charge.

'Iran has always advocated the policy of non-appeasement in its decisive combat against drug trafficking and its measures in this respect have been frequently admired by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.'

The statement continued, 'The Government of Iran strongly believes that we should not adopt discriminatory measures in combat against criminal offenses. Those criminals and financial defrauders, who destroy the lives of innocent people, take refuge in Australia and use this country as a safe haven should be also treated indiscriminately. Despite frequent requests from the Government of Iran, rendering substantial judicial evidence to the Government of Australia about these people, we do not understand why these criminals are not being extradited to Iran within the framework of international regulations and treaties, or why the process of their extradition is being delayed.'

'The former Labor leader, Mark Latham in 'A Current Affair' also points out something about the fake refugees and the very sad and unfortunate incident of the hostage-taking at the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place (Sydney).'

'It is worth mentioning that many years before this tragic incident occurred, the Iranian Government officially informed the Australian authorities of this person’s criminal records and his psychological problems and requested for his extradition. Iran had also cautioned about his free and dangerous activities, but the Australian authorities surprisingly granted him citizenship,' the statement wrote.

'Moreover, there are tens of thousands of Iranians currently living in Australia, many of them are among the very successful individuals working in different fields such as science, research, education, trade, medicine, industry, construction and their valuable contributions to your community and Australian people is admirable. There are very few research centers in Australia in which Iranians do not play remarkable rolls,' read the statement.

The statement also posed a serious question: Why don’t the media in Australia mention the origin or nationality of those Iranian migrants who accomplish an achievement in Australia, but when an Iranian national commits an offense they specifically emphasize on this person’s origin or nationality?

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