By Alejo Vidal-Quadras   Attending Hassan Rouhani’s inauguration in the midst of a series of revelations is morally and politically unconscionable, writes Alejo Vidal-Quadras, as it suggests the EU will look the other way on actual abuses as long as there are pleasant-sounding promises coming out of a small faction within the Iranian regime. Alejo Vidal-Quadras is a Spanish professor of atomic and nuclear physics and was vice president of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014. He is currently president of the Brussels-based International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ) ...

Par : Alejo Vidal Quadras La réélection du président iranien Hassan Rohani aura-t-elle une conséquence sur l’accord nucléaire (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ou JCPOA) conclu le 14 juillet 2015 entre l’Iran et la communauté internationale ? Alejo Vidal Quadras, ancien vice-président du Parlement européen, est professeur de physique nucléaire et président du Comité international pour la Recherche de la Justice (ISJ), une ONG basée à Bruxelles. Il est co-auteur d’un ouvrage collectif « Où va l’Iran ? » aux éditions Autrement.     Cet accord avait gelé le programme nu...

By Alejo Vidal-Quadras On Tuesday, January 17, I joined former US Assistant Secretary of State Lincoln Bloomfield and a number of French Members of Parliament in addressing a conference at the French National Assembly’s Victor Hugo Hall. The purpose of the event was to discuss the direction in the near future for French and broader European policies toward the Middle East, and particularly toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. That conference has stood as one symbol of the widespread support among Western policymakers for a different approach to Middle Eastern issues and political or economic...