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The people of Iran have no prospect of democracy, human rights or guarantees for minorities of the kind with which we in Europe are familiar. The state is run by a bunch of people who are absolutely convinced that God is on their side. They think they are entitled to decide how their people should live.
Many people have fled the country and among those who have stayed on, it is mainly women and young people who are desperate for change. That is why it is short-sighted to see Iran only as a closed bloc constituting a threat to the outside world. Even more so than in Iraq and Afghanistan, a military invasion, as is apparently being considered by the American President, is not the solution. The threat to use nuclear bombs, as is being publicly considered by the French President, is even more dangerous. Both threats would have the inevitable consequence that the people in Iran would look to their oppressing regime for protection, which would then be the lesser of two evils for them. This completely removes any prospect of real change, human rights or democracy. Europe would do better to ensure that various organisations of Iranians in exile, who advocate domestic change, could operate within the law."@en1
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