Nearly all of the Iranian lawmakers issued a press release on Monday, saying the current European Parliament’s decision was in keeping with the union’s meddlesome and biased approaches.
On January 23, the European Parliament adopted a decision, condemning what it alleged was a systemic violation of human rights and “hostage diplomacy” by Iran. It referred to as for a complete European response.
The decision was handed with 556 votes in favor, 6 in opposition to, and 42 abstentions.
It additionally referred to as on the Council to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) a terrorist group and to increase EU sanctions to all these chargeable for human rights violations.
Within the assertion, the Iranian MPs said they imagine that the decision is a manifestation of interventionist and biased approaches.
They added that the assault on the judiciary and the IRGC exposes the opponents’ plans to undermine Iran’s would possibly.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran is dedicated to respecting human rights and making certain justice for all its residents primarily based on home legal guidelines and rules of worldwide regulation,” the assertion learn.
“At a time when two high-ranking Iranian judges have been martyred in a terrorist act, the European Parliament has clearly intervened in Iran’s inner affairs by distorting the realities and exhibiting its assist for terrorist teams,” it added.
The judges – recognized as Ali Razini, head of Department 39 of the Supreme Court docket, and Mohammad Moqiseh, head of Department 53 – had been assassinated on the Supreme Court docket constructing in downtown Tehran on January 18. They labored on circumstances combating crimes in opposition to nationwide safety, espionage, and terrorism.
The assertion emphasised that Iran has all the time been on the forefront of the struggle in opposition to terrorism and has been a sufferer of organized and state-sponsored terrorism.
Nonetheless, it stated, many terrorists are conducting acts of terror freely with the assist of the European Union.
It described the IRGC as a authentic and widespread establishment that ensures nationwide and regional safety, warning that Iran will give a powerful response to any try by the European Parliament to put the elite drive on the record of terrorist teams.
The Iranian Parliament is not going to stay silent within the face of any disrespect in the direction of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic, the lawmakers said.
Iran’s Parliament “urges the European Parliament to open its eyes to world realities as a substitute of issuing biased resolutions and interfering in Iran’s inner affairs, and to chorus from testing unproductive paths in coping with the Iranian folks,” the assertion stated.
