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Iran has kidnapped and executed journalists and accumulated foreign prisoners as hostages. How much longer do Austria and the EU want to see?
European diplomacy has not yet completely lost its backbone. After the execution of Iranian journalist Ruhollah Sam, the EU was unable and unwilling to return to business. She canceled a European-Iranian economic forum scheduled for Monday. Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and EU Foreign Affairs Representative Josep Borrell should have delivered the opening speeches to hundreds of business representatives at the Internet conference; The ambassadors of France, Germany, Italy and Austria were invited to the first round of discussion. Simply continuing to talk business as if nothing had happened seemed inappropriate after the scandalous execution in Tehran. The virtual meeting and product inspection have at least been postponed.
The Sam case casts an exemplary spotlight on the Iranian system of injustice.
