Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-12-Speech-3-085"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-10-12"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20051012.13.3-085"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Belder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; REGI (2004-09-15--2007-01-14)3 substitute; AFCO (2004-09-15--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-23--2007-03-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-20--2007-03-13)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; ChristenUnie - Staatkundig Gereformeerde Parti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, ten years ago, the Iranian lyricist Said published a powerful literary diary entitled ‘The long arm of the mullahs, notes from my exile’. This long arm of those in power of the Islamic Republic is surely one with which the British Presidency is far from unfamiliar today. Teheran's terrorist tentacles even reach as far as the south of its neighbour, Iraq. This long arm is the cause of the brutal repression that persists at home and of the serious destabilisation abroad. The Council and Commission ought to give due consideration to these murky credentials of Iran’s regime, particularly if this regime of terror proclaims, mysteriously, to have purely peaceful nuclear intentions. I would like to ask the Council and Commission how we can prevent this long arm of the mullahs from resorting to nuclear weapons. You will in any event have to make the political price for President Ahmadinejad unacceptably high. In concrete terms, this means that we, together with the US administration, should really keep all the options open where Tehran is concerned. After all, the mullahs are quite capable of eating humble pie on their own. If the United Nations do not come up with an effective containment strategy against Iran’s dangerous atomic aspirations, there is no doubt that the states that feel threatened most will take measures themselves. That option must also sound familiar to the Council and the Commission. One thing is certain: as peace brokers for the Middle East, they must resolutely denounce and reject the blood-spattered long arm of the mullahs, both in principle and in practice."@en1

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