Macron in favor of new sanctions – Liberation

Faced with the violent repression that has hit the demonstrations that have been shaking Iran for two months, Emmanuel Macron is asking for a reaction. On France Inter this Monday morning the President of the Republic was the first to recall the “respect” and the “support” worn in the struggle waged by these activists, while many of them were received at the Elysée. Anger flared in Iran in September following the death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the deputy squad in Tehran for wearing the headscarf improperly. Since then, many women have cut their hair, removed their veils and taken to the streets to protest against the Islamic regime.

For Emmanuel Macron, what is happening in Iran will “against so many prepackaged ideas that we have been hearing for so many years: that the values ​​we defend were good values ​​for the West but not true there, that women were happy to live in this situation of obscurantism and oppression and that culturally men would not support them if they wanted to get out”. A revolt that he values ​​even more “important” which is especially supported by young people who have never known anything other than this regime.

“Strong diplomatic reaction”

While Iran is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world, reflection on new sanctions continues, especially by the European Union. Emmanuel Macron is said “welcome that we have a strong diplomatic reaction”. For example, targeted sanctions against “Personalities of the regime who have responsibilities in […] the suppression of this revolution”.

The French president also wants to involve neighboring countries “put that pressure” on Iran, such as the one brought to the Baghdad conference last year. At a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on November 24 in Geneva, “we will propose a resolution on the creation of a mechanism to investigate the violation of human rights in Iran”Emmanuel Macron specifies, before quoting as imperatives: “prosecute those who carry out these crimes and this repression”, “to have a unity of the international community” et “support this civic movement”.

Questioned by Léa Salamé about her position on the use of the veil and whether it was a “object of female submission”Macron believes it “for them [les femmes iraniennes qui manifestent, ndlr], he is”. And in France? The speech is intended to be in line with the 2004 law on religious symbols in French public schools: “Let’s preserve this freedom to believe and not to believe and authorize the use of religious symbols outside schools and public services. […] but always with an assumption that it is a choice, that it is free”observed the President, adding that even in France some young women suffer “pressure from family, loved ones” wear the veil. “And this is what we have to fight”according to Macron.