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.

According to Press TV, 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.

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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