Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Canada has made a very positive response so far. I am talking about the resolutions that Canada has brought forth in the United Nations General Assembly. For several years these resolutions have been passed. Although these resolutions do not have any executive power and don't h

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would like to thank you for your empathy for the people of Iran, and also for the cooperation of John with the Iranian community. As you know, a lot of Iranians, especially after the revolution, have come to Canada. This is a good time for the Government of Canada and the Ira

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Regrettably, I do not have the exact number, because if anybody claims that they were beaten, that shows that they were participating in the demonstration; therefore, the government will go after them. Even the exact number of those who were killed is not known, because the gov

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  With the money from my Nobel Prize, I purchased an apartment, furnished it, and gave it to two of the NGOs that were founded. One was the Defenders of Human Rights Center; I and a number of other lawyers were working on human rights issues. The other part of the apartment belonge

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  By listening to the slogans of people, we can understand what they think. From the beginning of the revolution, the slogan of the government in any gathering was “Death to America! Death to Israel!”, and people repeated that. After the presidential election, every time the govern

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I must say that the violation of human rights and the suppression of the people have caused this movement. If people were happy with the situation, they would not take to the streets and demonstrate. As the violence of the government increases, the dissatisfaction of people will

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As you mentioned, in the previous regime Iran had a great dependency on the United States. The CIA did a coup d'état and overthrew our national leader, Dr. Mosaddegh. For this reason the people of Iran, during the time of the Shah, were not agreeable to the United States. But thi

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I still am against military attack and economical sanctions against Iran, because that will cause the situation of the people to be worse. That would allow the government, under the excuse of national security, to oppress the people even more. But the trade that would cause the s

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  A day before the election, I went to Spain to participate in a three-day seminar. On the fourth day, as I was prepared to go back to Iran, my country was not the same one that I had left. They had expelled all the foreign journalists and they had imprisoned a lot of the Iranian j

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In fact, right now in Iran there are two kinds of activities. One is those people who are against the government. In fact a great number of people are against the government. The other struggle is between the people in the government. Because of the things that have happened, t

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  One of the problems we have in Iran is that the government does not announce whom they have arrested. They always threaten the families--that they should not announce it, that they should not go to lawyers, that they should not tell anybody that their children have been arrested.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm very happy to be here today to be able to speak to Parliament's human rights division. Very briefly, I would like to give a report of the violations of human rights in Iran today. Unfortunately, the courts in Iran lose their power day by day. Many of the people accused in p

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I told you that the Iranian people have some criticism of the government, but that does not mean we are willing to attack militarily here. We would never let any foreign soldier come to Iran. We love Iran. We want Iran to be free and we don't want to make another Iraq. Please rem

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I want to ask you to protest against those laws in Iran that are against human rights. One of them is a different type of punishment that you have in Iran. This is not only about the homosexuals. Two months ago in one of the western cities of Iran five people were punished. They

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Based on the report that has been given by Dr. ElBaradei, Iran did not do anything against the law and was working within the limitations of the law. It didn't violate the law in that respect. On the other hand, the case is in the Security Council. Up to now there have been thre