Conference on Minorities in Iran in Brussels; Call to Place IRGC on EU Terrorist List

The conference titled 'Women, Life, Freedom; What is the Future for Women and Minorities in Iran?' was held on Wednesday, April 25, at the European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. Hosted by Pina Picierno, Vice President of the European Parliament, and in collaboration with the Kurdistan Human Rights Association - Geneva, several activists from Turkish, Kurdish, Baloch, Arab, and Bahá'í communities participated. According to Pana Farah Bahman, a freelance reporter for Voice of America, the main goal of this conference was to convey a message to European leaders regarding ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender minorities and their rights violations by the Islamic Republic. Participants at the conference called for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be listed as a terrorist organization in Europe. Fariba Baloch, a women's rights activist, previously stated in an interview with Voice of America about the role of Baloch women in the Women, Life, Freedom protests and their achievements, noting that in the early days, there was no mention or image of these women, but their strength compelled religious figures like Molavi Abdolhamid to support them. Abdolhamid Ismailzahi, known as Molavi Abdolhamid, emphasized that for the past 43 years, 'women, ethnic groups, religions, and minorities' have faced discrimination.