Hajja Lahbib, the foreign minister of Belgium, chopped off a lock of hair on Thursday during a parliamentary debate in support of Iranian women and to protest the Iranian government’s “unbearable” crackdown on protests.
During a government questioning session in the house, the French-speaking Belgian minister, who is descended from an Algerian family, seized a pair of scissors and took the initiative to imitate the opposition representative, who is of Iranian descent and sits next to her.
She expressed to Habib her “horror” at Mahsa Amini’s passing in Tehran last month.
The repression “may have killed more than 150 people so far, without adding hundreds of wounded and arrests,” she promised Habib in front of the Belgian deputies.
The European Union may soon slap sanctions on Iranians it believes are to blame for this scenario, similar to the United States, which announced Thursday economic measures against seven senior Iranian officials for their role in this repression.
The topic will be discussed during the 27-nation gathering of foreign ministers slated for October 17.
Eight EU nations (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Luxembourg), according to Lahabib, are pushing for sanctions to be imposed on the leaders of the security agencies who gave the order for the crackdown.
The foreign minister of Belgium chops off a lock of hair in favour of Iranian women.
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