The foreign minister of Belgium, Hajja Lahbib, expressed sympathy for Iranian women by chopping off a lock of hair while attending a parliamentary meeting. She assured Habib Ali that the Iranian authorities had brutally repressed the protests. 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 affirmed to Habib in front of the Belgian parliamentarians.
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.
Eight EU nations, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Luxembourg, are reportedly pushing for sanctions to be imposed on the leaders of the security services who gave the order to carry out the crackdown.
The European Union may soon impose sanctions on Iranians it believes are to blame for this scenario, similar to what the United States did on Thursday when it announced economic measures against seven senior Iranian officials for their part in this repression.
The topic will be discussed at the 27-nation foreign ministers’ meeting that is set for October 17.
By cutting a lock of the Iranian woman’s hair, the Belgian Foreign Minister shows her support.
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