The 149 deputies present in the hemicycle adopted on Monday, unanimously, the text presented by the elected Renaissance. The resolution “condemns with the greatest firmness the brutal and generalized repression” towards “non -violent demonstrators” by the Iranian regime.
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Unanimous, French deputies are not often. However, they voted with one voice, Monday, November 28, in favor of a resolution in “support for the Iranian people”, in particular condemning the restriction of women’s freedoms and rights. The text collected the votes of the 149 voting deputies (out of 577), to the applause of all the elected officials present in the hemicycle.
At the start of the session, the Hadrian Renaissance deputy Ghomi, himself a descendant of Iranians, had called on the National Assembly to “send a strong message” to the Iranian people, by the vote of this text presented by the majority during of his week of parliamentary initiative.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, thus recalled the slogan chanted during the demonstrations in Iran, “women, life, freedom” and recalled the macabre figure of “more than 400 mowed lives” from the start from of the protest movement, born in mid-September, following the death of the young Mahsa Amini.
new European sanctions in preparation
The situation “order to act, with responsibility”, she said, saying that after two packets of sanctions taken at European level, “new sanctions are in preparation for the next Council of Ministers foreign affairs on December 12 “.
The resolution adopted by French deputies “condemns the brutal and generalized repression with the greatest firmness” with regard “to non -violent demonstrators”, “denounces the use of torture” and “affirms its support for the people Iranian in his aspiration for democracy and respect for his fundamental rights and freedoms “.
In addition, the text “requests the immediate release of French nationals arbitrarily detained”, seven in number, as the Minister said in mid-November.
All political groups have welcomed that this resolution, “certainly symbolic”, “sends a message of solidarity” for “a people [who] acts for a democratic alternative”, in the words of the leader of elected officials , André Chassaigne.
Meyer Habib, elected the Republicans, however deplored a text “colorless and very pale”, which “lacks courage” by making “Iranian nuclear, state terrorism, totalitarianism”. He had prepared his own resolution which was to be debated on Thursday but will not be. Angélique Ranc, deputy for the ranks of the national rally has regretted that “France still requests the help of the European Union”.
Iran is the scene of a large protest movement launched on September 16 by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22 -year -old young Kurdish stopped by the moral police for having violated the strict dress of the Republic Islamic.