The Mecca Mirage and Tehran’s Dead-End Diplomacy

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  by: Struan Stevenson There is something faintly absurd about three countries forming a military alliance to defend themselves against aggression, then rushing to the capital of the country they suspect of encouraging that aggression, pleading for peace. Yet this was the spectacle in Tehran on 26 October, when senior representatives of Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan arrived for talks with the Iranian regime. Tehran hailed the meeting as a success. Iran’s security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, spoke enthusiastically about a positive new atmosphere. The four countries agreed to continue talking. That was about it. No binding agreement to halt Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. No enforceable guarantees. No evidence of any miraculous conversion to peaceful coexistence. The mullahs must have been delighted. During my 15 years in the European Parliament, including five years as president of its Delegation for Relations with Iraq, I became thoroughly familiar with Tehran’s methods of extending...
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Brussels - Iran conference: perspective of change and European Union policy with the presence of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi

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Today, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran for the period of the transfer of sovereignty to the people of Iran, was welcomed by a group of representatives of the European Parliament and entered the parliament in Brussels and participated in the conference “Iran: Prospects of Change and European Union Policy”.
Mrs. Rajavi called for an international campaign to stop executions in Iran.

This conference was held under the chairmanship of Mr. Sar Salkhous, the co-chairman of Friends of Azad Iran in the European Parliament.
Dozens of European Parliament representatives from various political groups from different countries participated in this conference and 15 of them gave speeches. They supported the National Council of Resistance of Iran and Mrs. Rajavi’s 10-point plan.
Speech by European Parliament representatives: Xavier Sarsalkhous, member of the Foreign Affairs Commission and co-chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of Friends of Azad Iran, Anna Futica, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Defense and Security Subcommittee and former foreign minister of Poland, Milan Zavor, co-chairman of the Friends of Iran Azad Group and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Patricia Toya Vice President of the Industry and Trade and Research Commission of the European Parliament and former Minister of the Italian Government, Dorian Rukmark from the Netherlands, Rishad Charenski, former European Minister of Poland, Stanislaw Polczak, Susana Cikarcardi, a member of the Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Commission, Jan Zahradil, Ivan Stefanets, a member of the Human Rights Subcommittee. Jose Manuel Fernandez, Head of the Commission for Relations with Brazil, Herman Tretsch, Fitzgerald, Deputy of the Parliamentary Group of European People’s Parties and Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland in 2018, Gianna Gancha and Alejo Vidal Cuadras, former Vice President of the European Parliament.

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