Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. For us, it would mean a lot more security. In fact, the aim of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as my colleagues explained, is to guard and protect the Islamic revolution in Iran and, above all, to export it. My colleagues also spoke of the numerous attacks committed against opponents of the Islamic government.

Foreign Affairs committee  We don't understand it either. As my colleague mentioned earlier, the reasons given by the government are that, if it puts the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the list of terrorist organizations, this could perhaps lead it to sanction more than necessary. People could therefore be unfairly punished.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. With your permission, I will do my talk in French. Freedom of expression is the bedrock of democracy. In Iran, freedom of expression never existed, not during the Shah's time, nor—and even less so—since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The first victims of repression were women and the press.