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Apr
2024
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Iran’s unprecedented attack against Israel, the need for de-escalation and an EU response (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here, we are at the last plenary session of this legislature and many of the things I have heard in this House today, we have already repeated many times. It has been mentioned that this House has called for pasdaran to be included in the list of terrorist organisations. The Commission has refused to do so. I understand some of the reasons, however, if we are in this situation, it is not because today we have to divide ourselves between those who support Israel and those who support the people of Gaza. I support Israel, but this is not the object of our debate, it is to understand why there is still someone in that area who has every interest in destabilizing and enlarging the conflict. Because the first objective of the Iranian regime is to distract that part of the population that still supports it from the repression of young people, young women and young men, who in recent years have courageously opposed it. There is the theme of the clash between the Sunni world and the Shiite world, which has even been little analyzed. There are bombings in Balochistan, there are bombings and influences on the Iraqi government, on the Kurdish people, on the Iraqi Kurds. My friends who live in Erbil told me about very serious things that happened there. It is a perpetual conflict, but it is also a symbol of weakness, because the Iranian regime kills many Muslims. He says he wants to defend the interests of the Palestinians, but he kills many Muslims, let's remember.