Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

2:30 pm

Photo of Peter MathewsPeter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Okay. The Minister is aware of Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, NCRI. In 2006, she presented to the Council of Europe a ten-point plan for the future of Iran, which is based on the principles of human rights; democracy - one person, one ballot; gender equality; and all the principles that would make the framework for any decent and civil society, a document that could be our constitution. Why are these things not being used as the bedrock principles and frameworks for a liberated Iran? There are 85 million people there. It is being run by Aytollah Khamenei, the supreme religious leader, and the mullahs, who have an absolute dominance over their people, with-----

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