Legislators slam as ‘ridiculous’ European Parliament’s anti-Iran resolution

Iranian lawmakers have vehemently condemned a recent anti-Iran resolution passed by the European Parliament, urging Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help identify the European officials who have acted maliciously toward Iranians.

On Thursday and Friday, the European Parliament adopted two resolutions on the human rights situation in China, Iran and Egypt.

It condemned the human rights situation in Iran and criticized the country for the recent executions of Ruhollah Zam, the administrator of the Amad News counterrevolutionary website, Navid Afkari, who was convicted of murder, and the imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian national Ahmadreza Djalali, who is convicted of espionage.

The resolution also demanded “targeted EU measures” against Iranian officials for alleged human rights violations.

In a Saturday statement, members of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee branded the resolution as “ridiculous,” saying the European Parliament is the same body that remained silent against the “cowardly assassinations of innocent Iranian scientists.”

On the opposite, read the statement, the European Parliament has always supported terrorists, including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), separatist groups and leaders of terrorist groups.

The lawmakers maintained that Western states are not in a position to lecture anyone about human rights due to their continued support for "Zionists, terrorists and murderous dictators."

The committee further tasked the Foreign Ministry with presenting to the Parliament a list of European officials who have been involved in the imposition of Iran sanctions, especially the medical ones, as well as those European officials who have supported terrorist groups and judges who have issued sentences against innocent Iranian nationals.

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Meanwhile, Mojtaba Zonnour, the chairman of the committee, said if human rights violators were to be punished, all European governments should be punished as well.

This is because they have committed the gravest rights violations against the Iranian nation through imposing sanctions and supporting terrorists, Zonnour said via Twitter.

Ali Baqeri-Kani, who heads the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, voiced similar sentiments on Friday, when he said the European countries, by taking a nation’s health and livelihood hostage with the goal of imposing their illegitimate demands, have set a new record in “modern savagery.”

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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, special assistant to the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, also slammed the resolution as an act of sycophancy toward US President-elect Joe Biden, urging the European countries to take into consideration their own interests instead of adopting such hostile acts.

“Hostile @Europarl_EN Res is sycophancy for Biden & violation of Iranians' rights,” Amir-Abdollahian wrote in a tweet on Friday evening.

“Killers of kids w/special diseases via sanctions & hosting terrorist MEK are ineligible to speak abt HR, ask release of dual-national spies & murderer of Iranian scientist,” he added.

In their Saturday statement, the members of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee also condemned the French government’s reaction to the execution of Zam as well as a recent report published by the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee about Iran.

Last Saturday, France strongly condemned Zam’s execution and described it as an “unacceptable act,” prompting Tehran to summon the French ambassador to express its protest.

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Also, a recent report by the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, entitled “No prosperity without justice: the UK’s relationship with Iran” has called on the British government to designate the whole Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group.

Last year, the US announced new sanctions against Iran targeting top commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), branding the elite force as a terrorist organization.

Iran rejected the sanctions and in retaliation designated American forces in West Asia, known as the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), as a "terrorist organization."

In a statement, Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the country's top security body, said the designation came as a "reciprocal measure" against Trump's "illegal and unwise" move to blacklist the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization.

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