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Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Cornelia Ernst
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: DE

Das Töten muss ein Ende haben. Es muss Schluss sein mit der Todesstrafe. Dazu brauchen wir klare Aussagen, auch hier im Parlament. Wir unterstützen als Fraktion jede Sanktion, jede Sanktion, die sich gezielt gegen die Akteure einer solchen menschenverachtenden Politik richtet. Und wir unterstützen keine Sanktionen, die sich gegen die iranische Gesellschaft richten.  Und ich sage Ihnen: Wir müssen sehr viel mehr machen, sehr viel mehr machen. Ich fordere alle 705 Abgeordneten dieses Hauses auf, sich persönlich für Inhaftierte einzusetzen, die von der Todesstrafe bedroht sind. Übernehmen Sie Patenschaften! Machen Sie Druck! Machen Sie Druck bei den verschiedenen internationalen Institutionen, aber auch iranischen Institutionen. Sorgen wir in unseren 27 Mitgliedstaaten dafür, dass kein einziger Mensch in den Iran abgeschoben wird. Wir brauchen einen wirksamen, einen wirklich wirksamen europaweiten Abschiebestopp in den Iran.  Und wir dürfen nicht bloß Symbolpolitik betreiben und uns damit begnügen. Die iranische Zivilgesellschaft braucht sehr viel mehr, braucht Unterstützung bei ihrer Vernetzung im Widerstand. Der Kampf um einen freien und demokratischen Iran braucht einen langen Atem, unsere Seele und unser Herz.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó
Political group: NI
Country: Portugal
Language: EN

Madam President, for Iranians who are victims of the oppressive regime of the Ayatollahs, the EU is not just the Commission, Parliament or the Council, it is also the heads of state and government of its Member States.  The EU speaks to the world from this Parliament, but so does each European leader with their actions. The intensity of the statements of the European institutions are unquestionable – in this we are the champions. But these messages are not compatible with the fact that just four weeks ago European leaders attended the World Cup in Qatar, which is one of Iran’s main allies – business as usual – while the regime of the Ayatollahs repressed and killed. Statements are good, but actions are better.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Janina Ochojska
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: PL

Pani Przewodnicząca! Panie Komisarzu! Irańska rewolucja ma twarz młodej kobiety, która pali chustę jako znak opresji wymierzony przeciwko kobietom. Dziś mija 123. dzień irańskiej rewolucji wszczętej przez dzielne kobiety irańskie. Jej postulaty wyszły już daleko poza prawa kobiet. Protestujący domagają się usunięcia reżimowego, religijnego rządu oraz wprowadzenia reform gospodarczych. Protesty objęły już 282 miasta Iranu.  Chcę Państwu przedstawić 18-letniego Arshia Takdastana skazanego na karę śmierci, nad którym objęłam patronat polityczny. Arshia został aresztowany wraz z grupą młodych ludzi we wrześniu 2022 r. podczas protestów antyreżimowych w Nouszahr. Na pierwszym etapie śledztwa torturami wymuszono na całej grupie wzajemne obciążające zeznania. Później tą samą metodą uzyskano przyznanie się do winy. Wyrok nie jest jeszcze prawomocny. Każdy z Was może objąć taki patronat, ofiar niestety nie zabraknie.  Jestem przekonana, że los rewolucji irańskiej może zmienić los Bliskiego Wschodu i całego świata. To zależy też od nas. Solidarność z Iranem.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Tonino Picula
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, dear colleagues, we must not stay silent on what is happening in Iran. People are dying fighting for freedom, and the actions of the Iranian regime are twilight of humanity. That punishment and torture are weaponised on people that are exercising their basic rights. The Iranian regime is brutal, cynical and barbaric. In their desperation and increased isolation, the regime is even using technology and facial recognition for repression of its citizens. Moreover, we can only condemn their drone—based partnership with Russian invaders in Ukraine. We have to continue to strongly support the Iranian people. It is crucial to call for decisive EU response, and the Revolutionary Guard must be put on the list of terror organisations. Our message to the regime needs to be loud and clear: stop killing your people.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Bart Groothuis
Political group: Renew
Country: Portugal
Language: EN

Madam President, dear Commissioner, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has conducted many illegal hostages and killings, of course, in Iran, but increasingly on European soil.  Members of the IRGC nonetheless send their children to study here in Europe. Social media platforms in Europe are being flooded with outrageous IRGC propaganda. And the IRGC holds financial assets here across this continent. And this will luckily all end soon.  This House wants the IRGC to be labelled a terrorist organisation. This House will vote to impose costs on the IRGC and by doing so we demonstrate our support to the brave Iranian people.  But let this also be a signal to so many Chinese companies like Huawei, on the brink of helping Iran develop an even more brutal surveillance state, to even further suppress the Iranian people, and to Russia, buying IRGC drones, selling them Su-35 fighter jets – this cannot be without consequences.  The dangerous ideology of the IRGC has no place here in Europe, and ‘
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Hannah Neumann
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Sweden
Language: EN

Madam President, yesterday, 12 000 people came to Strasbourg to demonstrate for a free Iran and against its brutal regime. And this regime is under pressure because people in Iran are even willing to die for a brighter future. And we, the European Union, should not be the one stabilising a regime while its own people fight for its downfall. So how can our High Representative on the one side denounce executions and at the same time meet the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs on the red carpet in Amman? How can he speak about reviving the JCPOA if the only thing that comes out of it is the international reputation and recognition that the regime urgently needs? So the time for this ambiguous policy is over. As long as the brutal crackdown on protests continues, we should not negotiate. As long as the Revolutionary Guards terrorise their own people and the whole region, we should treat them as terrorists and put them on the sanctions list. The Iranian people have taken to the streets in Iran and all over the world, and they ask for our support. I stand with them. And so should all of us.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Marco Campomenosi
Political group: ID
Country: Portugal
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, come sapete bene io sono anche membro della delegazione per i rapporti con l'Iran.  Dibattiti sulla situazione in Iran ne abbiamo fatti tanti, anche prima della crisi e del conflitto iniziato a settembre e alcuni di noi certe cose le avevano già denunciate. Forse parte del sangue che è stato versato si poteva evitare. Il caso di Akbari è un caso gravissimo, ma spero che il mese prossimo non dobbiamo ripetere lo stesso tipo di dibattito, perché ci sono troppi casi molto gravi.  Oltre al sangue che è stato versato c'è il tema di cyber attacchi verso un paese europeo, in Albania; i droni, lo dicevamo prima durante il dibattito sull'Ucraina, forniti alla Russia; le sanzioni che sono troppo timide; dobbiamo supportare chi lotta contro quel regime, perché qui, anche in quest'Aula c'era chi difendeva un po' troppo apertamente un accordo, quello sul nucleare, che a mio avviso non va assolutamente difeso, perché non possiamo permetterci di regalare all'Iran lo status di potenza atomica.  E anche un altro gesto di coraggio, sebbene simbolico, inserire il Corpo delle guardie della rivoluzione islamica tra le organizzazioni terroristiche. Mi aspetto un impegno più forte da parte della Commissione in questo senso.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Eugenia Rodríguez Palop
Political group: The Left
Country: Netherlands
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, Mohamad y Sayed, dos jóvenes de veintiuno y veintiséis años, fueron ejecutados después de haber sido golpeados y torturados por protestar contra el Gobierno iraní. Ali Reza, un ciudadano británico-iraní, fue asesinado en la horca acusado de espionaje. Decenas de manifestantes han sido condenados y esperan ser ejecutados. Cientos de personas han fallecido en las protestas por alzar la voz contra la muerte violenta de Mahsa Amini, que no llevaba el velo como se suponía que debía llevarlo. El uso de la pena de muerte contra manifestantes y disidentes no es una novedad en Irán. Tampoco la violencia, la discriminación sistemática que sufren las mujeres, las personas LGTBI, las defensoras de derechos o las minorías étnicas y religiosas. La impunidad ha sido y es total. Por las periodistas Nilufar y Elahe, detenidas por informar; por Nasrín, abogada y defensora de los derechos de las mujeres, condenada a 38 años de prisión y 148 latigazos; por quienes continúan arriesgando su vida en la lucha por los derechos humanos; por todos ellos y todas ellas, seguiremos en pie. Admiración, respeto y solidaridad con el pueblo iraní.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Lukas Mandl
Political group: PPE
Country: Portugal
Language: EN

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, the Iranian regime is a threat to the inside and to the outside, and it has been a threat to its own people, to the region, especially to Israel and to the world, actually, for many, many years. And the free world has done a lot in order to seek the one or the other opportunity to calm down the tensions within Iran and to calm down Iran as a player on the global scene. But it didn’t happen. It became even worse. It is no surprise that those regimes who harm their own people, those regimes who harm others, those regimes who follow ideologies of hatred, align more and more on this planet, and when it comes to Iran and Russia, the Iranian regime and the Russian regime, we see this very clear picture. This is why it’s important to support the freedom movement within Iran. This is why it’s important to strengthen the sanctions we have already in place towards the Iranian regime, because this regime is rotten, morally rotten. No matter what they present to the world or what they try to present the world, it’s a morally rotten regime of criminals.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Isabel Santos
Political group: S-D
Country: Hungary
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, a pena de morte é um anacronismo cruel, desumano e degradante. A brutalidade com que o regime iraniano respondeu aos protestos pacíficos de homens, mulheres, jovens, que nas ruas clamam por liberdade, vida, democracia, não pode ser tolerada.  O que está a acontecer no Irão, com a utilização da pena de morte e com condenações a esta pena como mecanismo de terror, tem que convocar uma inequívoca resposta da União Europeia.  Impõe-se, por isso, um reforço das sanções adotadas, integrando um leque mais abrangente de atores destas brutalidades, e o apoio aos ativistas, jornalistas e a todos aqueles que neste momento necessitam da proteção internacional, bem como o reforço do apoio à sociedade civil por parte das diferentes representações diplomáticas.  Pedimos que a Guarda Revolucionária Islâmica seja incluída na lista das organizações terroristas. Exigimos a libertação incondicional e o regresso dos europeus detidos no Irão.  Parafraseando Victor Hugo, digo eu também: morte à morte, viva a vida.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos
Political group: Renew
Country: France
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, asistimos horrorizados a las ejecuciones, asesinatos, por el régimen de Irán de jóvenes manifestantes, al dolor de sus familias, a la angustia de esos veintiséis manifestantes que esperan su sentencia de muerte. Pero sabemos que la pena de muerte no es una situación nueva en Irán. Poco antes de las protestas, este país era el primer país en el mundo en la ejecución de mujeres.  Pero por esto no podemos asistir en silencio a este terror, a este horror, y tenemos que reforzar nuestras sanciones contra el régimen de Irán. Por eso pedimos en esta Resolución la designación de la Guardia Islámica Revolucionaria como una organización terrorista, como lo que es. Ya sancionamos a sus miembros de forma individual en 2019, pero deben recibir este calificativo.  Y debemos priorizar a las mujeres, las mujeres que, con su grito de «mujer, vida y libertad», están al frente de las protestas. Tienen también que estar al frente de las respuestas de la comunidad internacional. Y necesitan acciones concretas. Necesitan visados de emergencia para proteger su vida. Necesitan de Europa mucha más contundencia y firmeza.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Yannick Jadot
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Croatia
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, Monsieur le Commissaire, chers collègues, cela fait quatre mois, quatre mois depuis l’assassinat de Mahsa Amini. Quatre mois que les femmes – particulièrement les femmes, au risque de leur vie –, les jeunes et le peuple iranien manifestent pour une révolution. Une révolution avec un courage extraordinaire. Une révolution des consciences, une révolution des cœurs, une révolution des corps. Une révolution politique pour la démocratie et pour les libertés. Une révolution contre un régime corrompu qui opprime, qui torture, qui assassine, qui condamne à mort et qui exécute. Une révolution contre un régime qui a peur des femmes. Un régime qui a peur des hommes. Un régime qui a peur des jeunes. Un régime qui a peur des libertés et qui transforme ses peurs en terreur contre le peuple iranien. Il est temps de défendre les forces de vie en Iran, comme nous entendons le faire avec cette résolution. Mais pour défendre les forces de vie en Iran, il nous faut sanctionner les milices de la mort. Et les milices de la mort, c’est le corps des gardiens de la révolution. C’est la branche la plus pourrie d’un régime corrompu. Alors que ce Parlement fait son boulot, il est temps que la Commission et que le Conseil fassent aussi leur boulot pour sanctionner ce régime.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Malin Björk
Political group: The Left
Country: Czechia
Language: EN

Madam President, ‘Women, life, freedom’. These protests that were started by Kurdish woman have grown to a revolution. Women and men in Iran are showing extreme courage. The protests have grown to an enormous mobilisation. People are continuing to protest, risking their lives and freedom, for freedom.  The regime has answered with only violence. Protesters are being jailed, tortured and even executed. Death penalties are handed down and executions are carried out. It is a horrendous situation. Ethnic minorities are being persecuted – not least Kurdish minorities, including women and LGBTQI people. Yesterday there was a big demonstration here outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. People are asking us to do more, to stand by the protesters, to stand with all those that are brave enough to stand up against the regime. And we will continue to do all we can. We have to stop the executions. We have to achieve the abolishment of the death penalty. We have to stop deportations from our own Member States back to Iran. We have to sanction those key actors who repress the population. We will have to continue to stand with the brave population as long as it takes.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Javi López
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, el historial en materia de derechos humanos de Irán es atroz y desolador. Sabemos que en el país siempre ha habido una violación sistemática de los derechos fundamentales: ausencia de libertades, persecución de minorías, un uso sistemático de las detenciones arbitrarias, torturas, ejecuciones extrajudiciales... Pero ahora, más que nunca, queremos levantar la voz frente a la brutal respuesta del régimen iraní por las protestas que están llamando a la libertad en el país después del asesinato de la joven Mahsa Amini por la policía de la moral islámica. Pero la pregunta aquí es: ¿qué hacemos nosotros?, ¿qué hacemos los europeos?, ¿cuál va a ser nuestra respuesta? Y queremos reclamar un cambio de la política exterior de la Unión Europea y de sus Estados frente a Irán, una ampliación de la política de sanciones frente a los responsables de la brutal represión que vive el país. Y, sobre todo, queremos enviar un mensaje a los jóvenes y las mujeres que hoy son protagonistas de las protestas en el país: no las vamos a dejar solas, no los vamos a dejar solos, vamos a estar para acompañarles para que el país abra un nuevo escenario de libertad en nombre de las mujeres que hoy en Irán protestan por su futuro.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Bernard Guetta
Political group: Renew
Country: Austria
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, mais pourquoi fait-il pendre tant de jeunes gens? Pour faire peur, bien sûr. Pour dissuader hommes et femmes, parents et enfants de descendre dans la rue crier leur rejet de son régime. Mais ce n’est pas tout. S’il a tant besoin de la terreur, c’est que ce vieillard acculé, dos au mur, n’a plus d’autres cartes à jouer. Les plus lointaines des provinces sont aussi mobilisées que les plus grandes villes. Les plus jeunes le sont autant que les plus vieux. Les cols blancs le sont autant que les cols bleus et, naturellement, les hommes que les femmes. L’Iran veut vivre libre, en paix et dans ce siècle. L’Iran, tout l’Iran s’est révolté. L’Iran ne veut plus de vous, ni de votre régime, ni de vos gardiens de la révolution, ni de votre tartufferie, ni de vos meurtres. Plus vous pendrez, plus vos jours seront comptés. Car ils sont comptés, Monsieur Khamenei, Monsieur le bourreau, Monsieur l’assassin.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Dietmar Köster
Political group: S-D
Country: Lithuania
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin! Seit vier Monaten setzen die Menschen im Iran ihr Leben im Kampf für ihre Rechte aufs Spiel. Es ist unsere Aufgabe, die Revolution mit allen verfügbaren Mitteln zu unterstützen. Stabilität und Frieden im Nahen und Mittleren Osten wird es nur geben, wenn das Mullah-Regime endlich gestürzt ist. Sicherheit für Israel wird es nur geben, wenn das antisemitische Regime durch eine Demokratie ersetzt wird. Die Terrorisierung von Protestierenden muss endlich ein Ende haben. Sämtliche Exekutionen müssen sofort gestoppt werden. Die Revolutionsgarde muss auf die Terrorliste gesetzt werden, und das JCPOA-Abkommen hat keine Zukunft. Für Yina, für Nika, für Fardin, für Amrin, für Majidreza und Mohsen, für alle, die gefoltert, getötet, exekutiert werden:  Stop killing your people. Women, Life, Freedom.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Spain
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, la révolte du peuple iranien est partie de l’assassinat de Jina Mahsa Amini par la police iranienne à cause d’une mèche de cheveux non voilée. Le peuple iranien réclame justice, il réclame liberté et il réclame l’égalité pour les femmes. Il veut vivre en un mot selon ses propres idéaux. Le gouvernement iranien a répondu par une violence démesurée: arrestations, peines de mort, jugements expéditifs. Cependant, ces condamnations n’arrêteront pas le désir d’établir la liberté et d’établir également la démocratie. Ces pendaisons arracheront certes les fils et les filles de l’Iran à l’affection de leurs parents, comme c’est le cas de Mohsen Shekari, de Majidreza Rahnavard, de Mohammad Mehdi Karami et de Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, mais la victoire est à ce prix. Allons-nous rester les bras ballants et regarder ce massacre aux portes de l’Europe? Nous réitérons notre solidarité et notre soutien indéfectible au peuple iranien. L’Union européenne doit renforcer les sanctions afin de sauver des vies humaines et surtout revoir sa politique d’asile afin que tous ceux qui fuient ce régime despotique puissent venir chez nous.
Debate: EU response to the protests and executions in Iran
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Didier Reynders
Language: EN

The High Representative follows the Iranian fight personally, and Iran is on the agenda at the next Foreign Affairs Council. The European Union and its Member States will continue to speak up and act. The council will consider all the options at its disposal, including new restrictive measures relating to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards.  At the same time, as EU representatives, we will continue to use every opportunity in all direct exchanges with the Iranian authorities to convey our unequivocal stance on human rights and demand full respect for the fundamental rights of Iranian citizens. Concerning the detention of dual national and EU citizens in Iran, we work in close coordination with the Member States involved. We are using every opportunity to express our firmest disapproval to the Iranian authorities towards the disturbing and unacceptable growing number of cases involving EU citizens arbitrarily detained.  Vous avez mentionné la situation du citoyen belge Olivier Vandecasteele. Nous sommes en contact avec les autorités belges qui ont la responsabilité consulaire dans cette situation et nous soutenons complètement les efforts consulaires mis en œuvre par chaque État membre placé dans une telle situation.  At the same time, we are using every opportunity and every channel of communication with Iran to express our firmest disappointment towards a growing number of cases involving EU citizens. We will continue to work to support the Iranian population and will try also to continue to support European citizens detained in Iran.  Thank you again for your determination and for your support.
Debate: “The Road to ” - Towards a stronger EU-Latin America partnership
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Ewa Kopacz
Country: Bulgaria
Language: PL

Kolejnym punktem porządku dziennego jest oświadczenie wiceprzewodniczącego Komisji / wysokiego przedstawiciela Unii do spraw zagranicznych i polityki bezpieczeństwa: „Droga do 2023 roku” - W kierunku silniejszego partnerstwa UE-Ameryka Łacińska (
Debate: “The Road to ” - Towards a stronger EU-Latin America partnership
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Ewa Kopacz
Country: Bulgaria
Language: PL

Mam dla Państwa komunikat. Ponieważ mamy bardzo duże opóźnienie i jeszcze jeden punkt porządku obrad, zamykam w tej chwili listę zapisów w ramach procedury „catch the eye”.