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Two and a half minutes, Madam President. Over the last five years, we have had many debates on Iran. My group had sympathy for the revolution at the end of the 1970s, not because of any affinity with the religious extremists of the time, but because the previous government, led by the Pahlevi family, did not represent the people. That government was only able to survive because of its close links to the United States and Europe.
Because the previous government to that, which had been led by Prime Minister Mossadeq and which had enjoyed more popular support, had been removed as a result of foreign pressure, the huge swathe of the population which was opposed to the government acquired an extreme anti-Western attitude. The West was not seen as an ally in the fight for democracy and progress, but as a colonial profiteer and oppressor.
Nowadays, there is no longer any doubt that power has fallen into the hands of groups which not only seek conflict with the United States and Israel, but are also extremely conservative, intolerant and undemocratic. They oppress their own citizens, they have brought the judiciary and the army under the firm grip of religious fanatics and they are preventing the electorate from voting for people who hold more moderate views. The rights of women and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities have been shoved to one side and the death penalty is often carried out in public, in the cruellest of manners, as a means of suppressing non-conformist behaviour.
Moreover, opposition activities within Iran can result in detention. Members of the opposition who have fled abroad are being persecuted and discredited by the governments, media and public opinion of the countries where they now live. This can be seen from their attempts to place the opposition in exile on a list of terrorist organisations, as well as their attempts to close the Ashraf refugee camp in Iraq. Quite rightly, this Parliament has recently spoken out against these two practices."@en1
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