Counter Terrorism Policies and Organizations in Iran

On the bright sunny morning of phratry 11, Al Qaeda terrorists organized one of the most destructive attacks the public has ever seen. They hijacked four commercial contrivees using them as weapons for annihilation. Two planes full phase of the moon of passengers were flown directly into the twin towers of the World Trade Center immediately savage death thousands of people. The third plane targeted the Pentagon and the hijackers of the fourth plane aimed to hit Washington DC entirely the passengers fought butt crashing the plane in Pennsylvania.The terrorists carefully and patiently devised this plan of attack which was never foreseen by the American g everywherenment. Instantly, then President George supply vowed that fighting terrorist act would be his administrations top priority. This 9/11incident is one of the m both attacks that molded the image of terrorism all in all over the world. This fateful incident led the chasteners of the world to make a commitment to figh t terrorism (Gjelten). The contend on terrorism is a seemingly endless fight.Some people say that this is a governmental war others say that this is merely a clash of ideologies most specifically Moslem ideologies against the world but the raison detre behind every act of terror does non matter because the very act itself produces the same result- terrorism continues to steal thousands of transparent lives and strike terror in the hearts of people all passim the world. In secernate to respond to these attacks, countries from all ends of the world met and created laws in order to prevent the admission of terrorists.The worsening crisis in terrorism paved the fashion to the enactment of the adoption of Anti-terrorism policies by the Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Countries on June 13, 2002. The policy describes the various forms of terrorist attack as well as the corresponding penalties keeping in mind the most sacred and primal human rights. The anti-terro rism c angstromaign to a fault includes some(prenominal) courses of action for the battle against internationalist organized crimes. Through the cooperation of EU Countries, the member states adopted a constant policy on visas thereby lessening illegal immigration.On December 6, 2001, the joined States and the EUROPOL agreed to share strategic and technical information concerning several(prenominal) policies about(predicate) the manner of prevention and investigation of combating serious international crimes (Reinforcement of EU Policy against act of terrorism). The fall in States have several laws against terrorist even sooner the 9/11 attack. The US Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provided that an alien who had been move in terrorist exertion or those under suspicion of being a terrorist cannot enter the joined States territory.Terrorist activity has been defined as any violent attack against someones, assassinations including hijacking planes and using chemical o r atomic weapons and any similar activity. Shortly after the 9/11 attack, the USA patriot Act provided a wider definition of terrorist activity which now includes any person who have interpreted advantage of any position whether public or private to endorse aid or abet any terrorist activity or organization (Schoenholtz & Hojaiban).In a joint effort to arrest members of the Kurdisan Workers party, Turkey and Iraq finalized negotiations regarding counter- terrorism agreement allowing Turkey to engage in glowing prosecution of PKK terrorists at its base in northern Iraq (Anti-Terror Group, 2007). Iran is one of the countries that contributed greatly in terrorism. They have a special relationship with the Islamic jehad due to the fact that they get paid for building nuclear weapons for them. They similarly played a great role in the war amidst Israel and Pakistan.They provide teaching and weapons for the war soldiers. Yonah Alexander, an expert in counter-terrorism said tha t in order to start negotiations with Iran, the past events and policies of the country in connection with terrorism must first be taken into consideration. In 1980, the United States Embassy in Beirut was bombed by the Islamic Jihad resulting in the death and injuries of several people. About twenty eight years ago, the United States failed to rescue the hostages taken in the Embassy in Iran.An important point to consider way back then was that it was difficult to plan anti-terrorism measures because the times did not call for it different today. Just recently, Irans nuclear-making operations were suspended because of the inquiries made by several countries who had been alarmed by such activity. The investigation of IAEA led to the discovery of 18 years of hidden nuclear activities. Even though Iran answered several questions, some(prenominal) remained unconvinced.On October 2003, after the Iraq invasion, Iran joined the International Atomic Energy Agency and sign a protocol st ating that they support and promote its safeguard procedures (Cochran). In 2007, the Persian immaterial Minister Manouchehr Mottaki made a statement saying that Iran is free to consider talks with the United States on Iraq even after the United States Ambassador in Baghdad Ryan Crocker made a complaint about the participation of Iran in terrorist activity by extending supports by supplying weapons and training to terrorists.Several attempts towards negotiations have been made by Iran but were rejected by the United States. Indeed, it is seemingly hard to forge anti-terrorist strategy with Iran considering that it gives support to terrorist activity but no matter what the situation is, Iran is also a country that complete how much they wanted change and hw much they desire a different way of life for its people so there is a misadventure that peace and negotiation talks might happen (Winer, 2007). Policy makers all byout the world have different ideas and strategies but they all lead to one goal, which is to win the fight against terrorism.It is greatly devastating to see millions of truthful lives being lost and it is precisely because of this source that in this type of battle, cypher ever wins. The value of human life is nothing compared to a political belief or an ideology. The most effective way of fighting terrorism is to stop them before they get a chance to execute their plan. However, no matter how good the intentions are in enacting these laws, the extreme policies of several countries should also undergo some changes. The definition of terrorist and suspected terrorist should be reevaluated so as not to prejudice innocent people who are also seek refuge.Indeed, the counter- terrorism negotiations with Iran has been on a rough road but through patience and constant communication, many people strongly believe that it testament soon be achieved. An important thing to consider in opening renegotiations is that Iran should declare every detail and surrender all its accounts concerning their development of nuclear programs. They should also make a stand that they would severe all their efforts in supporting terrorism. It is important to keep in mind that the main reason why everybody is uniting against terrorism is to protect the people and not to clitoris them directly in harms way.Works Cited Anti-Terror Group. 2007. 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