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"Mr President, Iran makes us face up to our own contradictions. It is undoubtedly, as Mr Tannock has said, a great country with a prestigious past. It is also a potentially rich country, which has oil, and it has shown its willingness to return to the international fold by abandoning its military nuclear programme and adopting a moratorium on the death penalty. Iran is strategically important because it has a border with Afghanistan and another with Iraq. In short, Iran is essential to us and yet, within a month, it has destroyed our hopes of seeing it make progress in terms of democracy.
On the eve of the country’s parliamentary elections, the conservatives’ coup d’état is succeeding. Only fifteen of the reformist parliamentary candidates who were disqualified have been reinstated by the Revolutionary Council. The provincial governors who had threatened to resign will not do so. President Khatami will not resign. The students will not protest and the EU Member States, sensing a change in the wind, will not declare themselves to be frankly hostile to neo-conservatives who, they think, will distance themselves from religious fundamentalism. The result is that complete hypocrisy reigns.
I ask you, Commissioner, are we too going to close our eyes, in the name of economic and geopolitical interests, to this serious attack on human rights which is shattering the hopes of so many Iranian men and women, and what will be our attitude as regards the cooperation agreement?"@en1
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