The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, defended on Monday the pro-democracy demonstrations in Iran, stating that they are «on the right side of history» and called for a strong response to the repression unleashed by the regime in Tehran.
In a message at the beginning of the plenary session in Strasbourg, France, the ‘popular’ Maltese has assured that the institution will not «leave alone» the demonstrators in Iran, of whom she has said that «they are on the right side of history». «They will make history and we will be by their side while they do it,» he has proclaimed.
Metsola has pointed out that the international community must respond forcefully to the «terror» unleashed by Tehran against the participants of the protests, following the arrests and death sentences of demonstrators.
In this sense, he called for more measures against the Iranian courts, those responsible for the deaths in the streets and the executions of demonstrators, in a call to redouble international pressure against the regime of the ayatollahs for the violence unleashed after the death in custody of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini last September.
Humanitarian organizations estimate that more than 500 demonstrators have been killed in the violent repression of the protests, while Tehran has applied the death penalty against four people and more than a hundred are facing death sentences.
For its part, the European Union is already preparing a new round of sanctions against Iran for the internal repression against demonstrators, with a view to the meeting of foreign ministers of the bloc next Monday, in restrictions that will be framed in the sanctions regime for violations of Human Rights.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
