Key forum to discuss Iran’s role in Mideast

brussels — A conference, themed ‘Iran’s role in a Restless Middle-East: structuring a New EU response’, will be organised by the International Centre of Research and Human Rights at the European Parliament, Brussels on June 5.

The conference will tackle Iran and fate of its nuclear deal with world powers after the US pullout.

The conference sessions will be moderated by Ambassador Marc Otte, Belgian Special Envoy for Syria and Middles East, and Official Counselor to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister of Belgium Didier Reynders, along with other world figures.

This event seeks to evolve a constructive conversation amongst experts, academics and policy-makers on Iran’s role in the Middle-East’s regional stability. It will also allow an open discussion on how the EU can better leverage its political influence to mitigate the risk of conflict, human rights abuses, escalated proxy wars and a nuclear Iranian state.

The conference will discuss Iran’s transgressions and its prime role in the proxy wars to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries, which destabilised the Middle East.

The conference will also tackle Iran’s infringements of human rights inside Iran by suppressing activists, unlawful executions, forced kidnappings and hiding of people, and racial and ethnic discrimination, assaulting civil freedoms and women’s rights, as well as the role played by Iran in the nuclear deal crisis.

It is worth noting that this will be the first conference post-US President Donald Trump’s decision to call off the nuclear deal with Iran and impose new sanctions on the latter. Organisers of the conference view that Iran had entered a fierce battle to control the region since the Islamic Republic of Iran came to light.

The conference will also tackle Iran’s infringements of human rights inside Iran by suppressing activists, unlawful executions and forced kidnappings