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Reporters Without Borders hailed last week\u2019s European Parliament resolution on European Union strategy towards Iran. For the first time, the European Parliament has displayed a clear desire to take human rights into account in the EU\u2019s relations with Iran, the group said.<\/p>\n
Adopted on 3 April, the resolution urges the European Union \u201cto mainstream human rights in all aspects of its relations with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe welcome this initiative stressing human rights in relations with Iran,\u201d said Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire. \u201cThe measures envisaged in this resolution are a starting point. A counter-weight to the issue of Iran\u2019s nuclear programme and the defence of European economic interests, they form a basis for taking account of fundamental freedoms in bilateral talks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The European Parliament moderately critical resolution caused a hysterical and unprecedented hostile reaction from the mullah’s regime in Iran.<\/p>\n
A number of Iranian regime officials, including the so called \u201cmoderate\u201d Foreign Minister, the Speaker of the Majlis (the Iranian Parliament), the chair of the Iranian Parliament\u2019s Security and Intelligence committee, Tehran\u2019s Friday Prayer Leader, numerous members of the Majlis and the overwhelming majority of the media, have mounted relentless attacks on the EU, questioning why the European Parliament has dared to include human rights violations and the anti-democratic behaviour of the regime of Iran in the on-going nuclear discussions.<\/p>\n
Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the commander of the Basij force, called the EU MEPs worse than \u201cfour legged animals\u201d. He said that: \u201cin their resolution they tell us that we have no right to execute people and that they want to have an office in Iran; it is none of your damned business to open up a bureau in Iran.\u201d (The state-run Tabnak website – April 3, 2014)<\/p>\n
Senior MEP Struan Stevenson, Chair of Friends of a Free Iran said in a statement on April 8: “The hysterical reaction of the Iranian regime also underscores the need to keep up the pressure on human rights during all negotiations on the mullahs’ attempts to construct nuclear weapons. It would be a grave error to relax this pressure in the hope of appeasing the allegedly ‘moderate’ forces in Iran.”<\/p>\n
“The hysterical Reaction of the Iranian Regime to the European Parliament’s Resolution, underlines the need for a continuing firm policy against the barbaric violation of human rights, nuclear projects and regional warmongering.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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