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BRUSSELS, Feb 7 (KUNA) -- A European-American Conference was convened at
invitation of the Friends of Free Iran intergroup in the European Parliament
in Brussels on Tuesday on the current political situation in Iran and the
region, and the Ashraf camp in Iraq,
The conference was presided over by Jim Higgins, member of the European
Parliament's Bureau.
According to a statement released by the organisers, dozens of EU
parliamentarians, including Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice-President of the
European Parliament, Struan Stevenson, head of the Delegation for Relations
with Iraq in the EP, and many prestigious American personalities such as
Howard Dean, former US Presidential candidate and Chairman of the Democratic
National Convention, Senator Robert Torricelli, former US Congressman Patrick
Kennedy and John Bruton Former Prime Minister of Ireland spoke at the event.
The Paris-based leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran,
Maryam Rajavi, was the keynote speaker of the event.
Friends of a Free Iran intergroup was formed in 2004 and consists of over
100 MEPs from various political groups. (end)
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