Majlis speaker urges IPU to help resolve Iraqi issue

“We believe that the Inter-Parliamentary Union should help resolve the problems of the Iraqi people as soon as possible,” Haddad-Adel said.

The parliament (Majlis) is an important cornerstone of the Islamic Republic, he noted, adding that the people will effectively participate in the parliamentary elections.

Iranians’ post-revolutionary experience has convinced them “the greater the strength of the parliament, the lesser is the possibility of a dictatorship,” he said.

Referring to a speech he was scheduled to deliver at the European Parliament last week, Haddad_Adel stated, “What happened there, did not seem reasonable to us; unfortunately the Western countries receive information from unqualified groups and reach wrong conclusions by analyzing the false data.”

Hadad-Adel cancelled his planed speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday after Maryam Rajavi, the ringleader of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), addressed the European lawmakers in a Council of Europe session on October 1.

The European Union is giving a voice to a group which is known as a terrorist organization by the EU and the U.S., and whose members are under prosecution by the Interpol, he said.

He added that he was interested to attend the European Parliament Council meeting, but he decided that protesting the EU policy of applying double standards was more important.

“Regrettably, today the media is controlled by people who do not want the world hear our voice,” he stated.

RMN/PA

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