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Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Persian, interpreted as follows:] Bartering must be limited to food and medication—what people can benefit from directly. Also, when signing any contracts, you could include a condition for overseeing how it's carried out. The government cannot take advantage

May 9th, 2019Committee meeting

Dr. Shirin Ebadi

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Persian, interpreted as follows:] As I mentioned in my comments before, any commercial or economic relations with Iran must depend on improving the human rights situation. As well, the Iranian government's use of satellite television and radio for propaganda mu

May 9th, 2019Committee meeting

Dr. Shirin Ebadi

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Persian, interpreted as follows:] I'll speak very briefly. I can tell you that this revolution caused all of the rights women had to be lost. This revolution has been called the revolution of men against women, because all rules against women were passed during

May 9th, 2019Committee meeting

Dr. Shirin Ebadi

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Persian, interpreted as follows:] The behaviour of this agency must be such that the source of the money is completely clear. Corrupt people in Iran, who steal money from Iran and bring it to Canada do not actually put it in their own name. It's usually in the

May 9th, 2019Committee meeting

Dr. Shirin Ebadi

May 9th, 2019Committee meeting

Dr. Shirin Ebadi

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Persian, interpreted as follows:] In order to summarize, Ms. Alinejad said some words, but allow me to answer the next question by myself. If you want an answer to the same question twice, there would be a lot of time spent on this and we won't get to the other

May 9th, 2019Committee meeting

Dr. Shirin Ebadi

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Persian, interpreted as follows:] The revolutionary guards, all the corruption, the economic corruption in Iran which I spoke about, the majority of them go back to the revolutionary guards because they are present in all the economic sectors and all of them be

May 9th, 2019Committee meeting

Dr. Shirin Ebadi

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Persian, interpreted as follows:] Let me add this. The economic sanctions are against the people. They will suffer. Satellite sanctions do not allow Iranians, the Iranian government to use western countries' satellites and TV channels, non-Persian TV channels,

May 9th, 2019Committee meeting

Dr. Shirin Ebadi

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Persian, interpreted as follows:] Honourable members of the Parliament of Canada, I'm grateful for the chance that has been given to me to talk to you. I'm sorry that I couldn't be there in person. My country, Iran, is now facing two crises. The first one is

May 9th, 2019Committee meeting

Dr. Shirin Ebadi