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"Mr President, it is a real testament to the bravery of ordinary people in Iran that, despite the massive oppression they are faced with, despite the executions, despite the torture, despite the jailings, there have still been mass popular movements of discontent over the past years in Iran.
Recently there has been an upsurge in workers’ struggles, as workers have been fighting to form independent trade unions that can really represent their interests.
Massive strike waves amongst the Teheran bus workers, in the sugar cane industry, amongst teachers, in the petrochemical complexes in Bandar have all been met by brutal crackdowns by the regime, including the hanging of a teacher in the last year and the arrest of many, many workers.
However, the gross violations of human rights that are perpetrated by the dictatorship in Iran, and this resolution that we will pass today in Parliament, must not be used as a pretext by European leaders to engage in military action or support military action or to impose sanctions that will simply harm the people of Iran.
Instead the trade union and workers’ movement must increase its efforts to highlight the abuses of human rights, the abuses of workers’ rights in Iran, and to support the struggles of working people, young people, poor people, to achieve fundamental change within Iran."@en1
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