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Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of utmost hypocrisy for accusing Iran, without evidence, of sending arms to Syria while the UK sells arms to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, who have been brutally crushing revolutions in their own kingdoms with barely a protest from the UK.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has courted utmost hypocrisy accusing Iran of supplying weapons to what he called Syrian crackdown while he has personally oversaw the flow of weapons to repressive regimes within a stone's throw of Syria.


Cameron told British MPs there is growing evidence from intercepted vessels that Iran is feeding Syria with arms.

French Foreign Ministry earlier said on Tuesday that Iran is sending ammunitions to Syria in violation of a UN arms embargo, but did not offer any evidence; nor did Cameron.

In response to French accusations, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said the “political” allegations by “officials from some European countries, this time by France… are baseless and not backed by proof.”

This is while, Cameron's accusations are not only baseless, but also hypocritical as his government has renewed arms export licenses to the Middle Eastern and North African governments, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt, which have been busy crushing Arab Spring [Islamic Awakening] movements in their countries.

A case in point was Saudi Arabia that received British bomb equipment, weapons sights and components for military vehicles and helicopters not to mention British training to its National Guard, which was involved in the Bahraini regime's suppression of demonstrations.

According to The Independent government figures also show that London granted licenses for £2.2 million arms sales to Bahrain between July and September 2011, more than £1.3 million of which were for military use.

It was timed to coincide with Bahraini regime's bloody crackdown on protests and routine raiding of homes to silence those calling for an end to al-Khalifa despotic rule.

It came also only a few months after Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt told MPs that “any licenses for equipment that could be used for internal repression [in Bahrain] have been revoked".

Cameron accused Iran of arming Syria based on evidence he never offered yet there is overwhelming evidence that his own government is arming regimes that have the blood of their own people on their hands.

Now one should decide on the truth behind his comments in the Commons: whether Iran, or Britain, is arming what he called “wretched tyrants” who are “killing so many of [their] own people.”

[source : London accuses Iran of arming Syria, Press TV, 21/1/2012]