Haddad-Adel canceled the speech protesting the fact that members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) had been invited to address the human rights watchdog earlier this week.
Iranian speaker was to address the Council's parliamentary assembly in his role as president of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, but was replaced by the Indonesian parliament speaker.
MP Hossein Nejabat called the decision by Hadad-Adel a “right and timely” move and said this should be adopted as a foreign policy approach at the current situation.
“At the current situation we express our words transparently at the international scene and our words have reached to (foreign) politicians and it should reach to the people as well… and in such a view the decision by Hadad- Adel was timely and correct,” Nejabat told ISNA.
Nejabat, who is also a member of the Majlis presiding board, said one of the basic principles of Iran’s foreign policy is to demonstrate that great powers’ “hypocritical” policy.
Everybody knows that MKO is an internationally-recognized terrorist group and European politicians should clearly state their position toward this group, he noted, adding the Iranian Majlis speaker cast light on the West’s double-standard policy toward different issues by refusing to attend the session.
Haddad-Adel will visit Switzerland on Monday to address the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting. He will take part in a three-day conference in Geneva at an invitation by the IPU head. Speakers from 120 countries will also participate in the event.
The MP from the Tehran constituency expressed hope that Hadad-Adel will expose the West’s double-standard policy more evidently in Switzerland and announce Iran’s position more vigorously.
He added the MKO ring leaders are constantly in contact with the members of the European Council.
The Europeans are not committed to principles and are just after their own interests but “we want to show that their claims of liberty and support for human rights and fight against terrorism are worthless statements and they have adopted the policy that ‘the goal justifies the means,’” the lawmaker noted.
Iran’s nuclear program
He said European countries have been following the U.S. in regard to Iran’s nuclear program.
However, he said there are differences between the U.S., Germany, Britain, and France and sometimes they take radical approaches in order to show their powers to each other.
For example, he said Britain was too close to Washington during the Blair premiership and it seems the Oval Office is reviewing its policy toward the U.S. and this has provided an opportunity for the new French government to take some strange views.
“We should regulate our macro policy and follow our main route” and don’t think that these policy shifts by Western countries are major changes,” the spokesman for the Majlis conservative faction explained.
MP Mohammad-Nabi Rudaki said despite the fact that everything has been prepared in advance for Iranian Majlis speaker’s speech at the European Parliament the French government took double-standard policy toward the MKO.
“The fact that France puts MKO in terrorist list and then hold talks with its leaders cannot be justified by any means,” Rudaki underlined.
Maryam Rajavi, the MKO ringleader, spoke Monday to parliamentarians from the Council's 47-member states.
The lawmaker who represents Shiraz at the Majlis added there is no reason that the Council of Europe hold talks with MKO terrorist leader as it invited the Iranian Majlis speaker to address the body.
This kind of approach was intended to humiliate the Iranian side, he told ISNA.
On a U-turn change in French position toward Iran’s nuclear program since Nicolas Sarkozy took the helm at the Elysee Palace, the Majlis National Security And Foreign Policy Committee chairman said, it is better that Iran invites French foreign minister to Iran and make the Paris officials “familiar with the realities because diplomacy is the only solution to Iran’s nuclear dossier.”
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner claimed on Friday that his country has not hardened its stance towards Iran. "France has not hardened its position regarding Iran, on the contrary," Kouchner said in a press conference during a visit to Ankara.
"Iran is a great country that we respect. We are speaking and we will continue to speak," he said. "France will do whatever it takes to calm the crisis."
In a letter addressed to his European counterparts on Wednesday, Kouchner proposed that in parallel to UN Security Council sanctions against Iran, the Europeans should consider their own additional measures.
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