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France Calls for Free Elections in Iran

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:32 am    Post subject: France Calls for Free Elections in Iran Reply with quote

France Calls for Free Elections in Iran

January 14, 2004
Middle East Online
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MANAMA - French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said Wednesday it was essential that Iran's upcoming parliamentary elections, from which reformists have been disqualified en masse, be free.

"We hope... the upcoming elections in Iran will be free," he told a news conference in Manama at the end of a five-nation Gulf tour.

"It seems to me to be essential, in the context of the relations of trust we want to maintain with this country, that they be such," he said at a news conference with Bahraini counterpart Sheikh Mohammad bin Mubarak al-Khalifa.

The crisis erupted on Sunday when the conservative-run Guardians Council, an unelected 12-member watchdog that vets legislation and screens all candidates for public office, moved to disqualify nearly half of the 8,000 people hoping to stand for parliament on February 20.

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has threatened the mass resignation of reformers, including himself and his government.

The United States had on Monday criticised the disqualification of reformist candidates and called for the Iranian government to disavow the move.

De Villepin said France was "engaged in a process of dialogue with Iran in an effort to find solutions to the very difficult issue of proliferation."

"Along with my German and British counterparts (Joschka Fischer and Jack Straw), we initiated an important dialogue in this domain, which made it possible to secure Iran's commitment to respect its international obligations within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," he said.

Iran last month signed the additional protocol of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) allowing surprise inspections of its nuclear facilities.

This followed months of intense diplomacy to pressure Tehran into placing its nuclear facilities under greater international supervision and prove that it is not seeking to develop atomic weapons.

Britain, France and Germany helped persuade Tehran to sign the protocol.

"We want to go further and the dialogue with Iranian authorities is continuing," de Villepin said, adding that he would meet in Paris Thursday with Hassan Rowhani, who heads Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

"With regard to the opening up of all countries, chiefly Iran, and the situation of reformers, we hope all these questions will be resolved through dialogue," he said.




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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:46 am    Post subject: d Reply with quote

France doesn't want FREE-REFERENDUM, they want FREE JOKE ELECTIONS - It's just a game !
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:30 pm    Post subject: Free Referendum Not Free Islamic Election Reply with quote

Free Islamic Election is good for France not Iranian people, We are demanding Free Referendum


The Activists demand:

- That world governments declare the Islamic Clerical Regime of Iran as illegitimate and unfit to govern and therefore call for a free referendum to be held in Iran now by well-respected international organizations.
- That all top level regime officials be investigated and prosecuted by respected International Courts for genocide and many other crimes against humanity.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chirac Meets Iran Official;Seeks "New Stage In Relations"

January 14, 2004
Dow Jones Newswires
The Associated Press



PARIS -- A senior Iranian official met with French President Jacques Chirac Wednesday. In a meeting with Hasan Rowhani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Chirac said he hoped for a new future in relations between France and Iran, but stressed that Tehran must follow through with its commitments.

"This will permit the opening of a new stage in relations between Iran and the international community, as in our bilateral relations," Chirac said, quoted by his spokeswoman, Catherine Colonna.

Rowhani was on a three-day visit to Paris to mark a new era of improved ties with Tehran after France, Germany and Russia laid the groundwork last fall for Iran to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities.

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Shame on France!

I propose a public Ban of all French Goods by members of the Iranian diaspora worldwide!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



From Khorshid:

"Interesting how the French "call for free elections" on one hand, but negotiate with an unelected official such as Rowhani, who, incidentally, is not even Iranian."
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:46 am    Post subject: crooked Reply with quote

Crooked Fools - what will they do when US and free people of the world Play their hand and it's a royal flush?
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