Broadcast 17 February by Iranian state satellite TV (IRINN)

Announcer: While the European Parliament has issued a resolution condemning unauthorized secret American CIA military flights in this union's air space, at the same time the an EU report published in the newspaper "The Independent" states that 13 nations from this union, including England, Germany and Italy, cooperated in the transport and torture of these defendants, managed secretly by the CIA network.

The publication of this report shows that the European governments, contrary to their ideological exterior in which they oppose America's inhumane policies, in practice, by cooperating extensively with the CIA, have in practice created conditions for the extensive violation of the rights of defendants by the CIA, so that in England alone 170 of the nation's airports have cooperated in the transport of defendants to secret CIA prisons.

More than anything else, this shows the West's contradictory double-standard with respect to the matter of human rights. It must be said in this regard that America more than any other Western nation is both a defender of human rights and at the same the principal violator of those rights.

The published realities with respect to the torture and torment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and the horrifying detention center at Guantanmo reveal the essential falsity of the claims by the Americans in the defense of human rights.

Another important point is that the cooperation of nations such as England with the CIA's inhumane operations on European soil and the condemnation of these measures by this union's member nations has shown the existing breach between the nations that lean towards America, especially England and other goverments and the pivotal nations of the union. This could become a new challenge to the process of reinforcing alignment in the European Union.