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"Mr President, no one wants self-congratulation when the challenges we face are so serious, but the Iranian nuclear deal was a notable European achievement – personally for the High Representative, for her predecessor and for their team.
In the last week, some would think that the only importance was the reaction inside the US Congress, but today’s debate demonstrates European support for a European deal. We should not be deflected in developing our own European strategy to follow up its implementation. Europe expects Iran to keep its promises, but we have to show we will be a reliable partner in keeping our own promises in return.
We have heard from the High Representative about the setting-up of the interinstitutional task force and I would like to ask her about the Parliament’s role in that task force in helping bring forward a new era of cooperation ranging from energy to education to the environment, as she outlines.
We endorsed the proposal for the opening of an EU delegation in Tehran. But Europe is not, and will not, be uncritical. Europe’s response can and must strengthen reformists within Iran. We will criticise the death penalty, but when 80% of the executions are drug-related – and the Iranians told us themselves that their policies in combating drugs are failing – surely EU cooperation in the fight against drugs can have some real influence.
Similarly, we have a difficult but essential job to engage Iran in the fight against ISIS and in resolving the conflicts within the region, thus dealing with the causes of today’s migrant crisis, not just its symptoms. But today America is talking to the Russians and the Russians are talking to the Iranians. We need to talk about how we can engage Iran in the cause of peace.
Finally, recognising the important statement of the Saudi foreign minister expressing satisfaction with the assurances about the deal, the wariness the Israelis have expressed to me is this: that this is a deal for 15 years, but, they ask, what about 15 years and one day? We can find an answer. In Europe’s cooperation with Iran we can seek development, which means there will be no going back. We did a nuclear deal. We now have to make sure it is a deal for development, a deal for modernity, a deal for peace."@en1
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