Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent)
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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-----