![](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/edithbauer.jpg\" "\\"edithbauer\\"")
NCRI – A European-American Conference was convened on invitation of the Friends of Free Iran intergroup in the European Parliament on February 7, in relation to the current political situation in Iran and the region, and the necessity of protecting Ashraf residents, members of the Iranian opposition.<\/p>\n
BAUER, member of the Parliament from Slovakia<\/strong>: Dear colleagues, dear Madame Rajavi, dear guests, thank you for the opportunity to add my modest remarks on behalf of European Parliaments, (or the) group with Women for Free Iran and send a message to those who are suffering in Camp Ashraf.\u00a0 There is no doubt that the regime in Tehran is a gross violator of human rights.\u00a0 It is based on an extreme fundamentalist version of Islam, repressing women.\u00a0 It makes threats to its neighbors and prevents peace and stability in the whole Middle East region, as it was told, and it is clearly moving toward the production of nuclear weapons.\u00a0 That is justified question, what are we doing about this?\u00a0 That is a justified question, if we will pass the test to protect more weak than we are.<\/p>\n After the more than three decades we are still hesitating, (as was) told then maybe we are thinking more to cut off all negotiation and start the new phase with is (distinct) for its recognition of the Iranian resistance movement at Ashraf at its focal point.\u00a0 People in Iran expect us to understand their suffering and agony and give them the help we can.\u00a0 Probably we did not understand the uprising in 2009.\u00a0 But now it cannot be delayed for much longer because it\u2019s question of life and death, as it was told.<\/p>\n There are thousands brave women living in Ashraf who have been standing up for the cruel dictatorship of Iran over the past three decades.\u00a0 Many of them, who spent years in Iran\u2019s notorious prisons for defending human rights, could be examples for all of us.\u00a0 Women of Ashraf who have had many crucial responsibilities in this resistance truly represent the future of women in free Iran.\u00a0 To speak frankly, we are very concerned of the lack of freedom of movement in Camp Liberty.\u00a0 It seems to be more like a prison, as it was thought, and I agree.\u00a0 It needs a big piece of political cynicism to call a prison Camp Liberty.\u00a0 As we did many times, we calling on Baroness Ashton to intervene to change the current condition at Camp Liberty so that safety and security of the women are guaranteed and we hope the same will do our colleagues in the U.S. Congress.\u00a0 Otherwise, any transfer in current conditions is very risky and the blame would also lie on EU and U.S. on all of us.\u00a0 In this battle, we shouldn\u2019t fail. Thank you.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NCRI – A European-American Conference was convened on invitation of the Friends of Free Iran intergroup in the European Parliament on February 7, in relation to the current political situation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-11688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ashraf-liberty","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/Brussels-conf-2.jpg\" "\\"Brussels-conf-2\\"")
<\/p>\n