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- Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: She is my colleague.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Is Iran selling arms to Syria at the moment? Why does Iran's leadership, under the Khameneis effectively, not consider separating state from religion so that equal rights can be honoured as between peoples? How wealthy are Ayatollah Khamenei and his sons? I have heard estimates of at least $50 billion or $60 billion. Fatwas are decrees. We are not used to the idea of decrees in this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I think it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I think it hugely relevant. President Putin's wealth is mentioned in international discussions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I think it is important because it reflects power.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Does Syria?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I invite you to meet her.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I suggest it, then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: My first question is -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: In regard to drugs, I was informed by an Iranian citizen who has lived in Ireland for many years and who visits his relations in Iran that the drug problem is due to police corruption. Between 1 million and 2 million young Iranian men are going around dazed with drugs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: That is my first question. The second -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: It was not a demonstration. It was a very peaceful rally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Through the Chair, has the ambassador met Maryam Rajavi?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Has the ambassador met Madame Maryam Rajavi in person?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I welcome the ambassador. Last Friday, I was one of 120,000 people at an Iranian opposition rally in Villepinte in Paris. I was amazed at the civilised and good conduct at this rally, attended by the representatives of 69 other countries such as Rudi Giuliani, Ingrid Betancourt-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: I was told by people attending the rally about their relations who suffered at the hands of the fundamentalist regime in Iran and that 120,000 people have been executed since 1980 there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Pregnant women, imprisoned because of mild political dissent, lost their babies. To have so many Iranians from around the world attend a rally-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: What has the ambassador got to say to that?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: Efforts should be made to retrieve the situation.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Government should be businesslike about it.