Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-16-Speech-4-162"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990916.11.4-162"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-16-Speech-4-1632
lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Belder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij - Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond - Reformatorisch Politieke Federatie (1999-07-20--2002-03-17)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the power struggle in the Islamic Republic of Iran between conservatives and those inclined towards reform continues to rage unabated until today with all the consequences you would expect for the constitutional state, in other words the non-application of the constitutional state’s basic principles. Fortunately, critical Iranian newspapers and some Iranian members of government are brave enough today to speak out about these very principles. The same applies both to the students under arrest and to the Iranian Jews accused of espionage. The extent to which they are prepared to stick their necks out is apparent from the sombre and also dispassionate reports by Iranian political analysts. Quote: “As long as the generally-held view in Iran is one which defines dissidents as people of another faith and which derives the right to decide on whether people should live or die, or the right to take the fate of the country into their own hands, from religion, the country’s political climate will continue to be poisoned and politically-motivated violence is to be expected”. Unquote. There has certainly been no lack of this type of violence in the Islamic Republic of Iran since it was first founded in 1979. The murders that took place last autumn of four independently minded souls are still fresh in the memory, and of course we must not forget the extraordinarily brutal treatment meted out by the henchmen from the conservative camp of the supreme lawyer Khamenei. The latter and his immediate entourage attempted to conceal their involvement in the grim liquidations of 1998 with utterly vile lies about a Jewish-American plot against the fatherland. The international community, and therefore likewise the European institutions, must rally around the indigenous voices calling for open and just trials for the students and Jews held in captivity. And so it goes without saying that we support the joint draft resolution."@en1

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