Milan, 4 March (LaPresse) – ‘The PD has been demonstrating alongside the Women, Life and Freedom movement and Iranian students since the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022. I have never seen Meloni, Tajani or Salvini there: I have never seen this hypocritical right wing that compares us to the regime we have always condemned.’ This was stated by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, in an interview with the daily newspaper La Stampa. When asked if she agrees with what her ally Matteo Renzi says, who thanks Trump for bringing down the dictatorship, first of Maduro and then of Khamenei, Schlein replied: 'I spoke in the Foreign Affairs Committee, reiterating the position we have always held: we have always been clear in our condemnation of the brutal theocratic regime in Tehran. Khamenei was a bloodthirsty dictator and we will certainly not miss him. For us, however, there is also a problem', namely 'that we are convinced that military attacks carried out in violation of international law and bypassing all multilateral forums are dangerous, a dangerous precedent, because then what is the criterion? Does Trump decide? Personal sympathy? In a world order, there are shared rules; it's not that someone can wake up one morning and decide to bomb a country.‘ And again: ’What if tomorrow the problem is us? Who will have an argument? What is the criterion if only the law of the strongest applies? What if the problem were Sanchez, whom Musk has called a traitor and Trump threatens to sanction? Or someone who wins in Italy in the future?" "If someone thinks they can take us back to the 20th century with the logic of power, only updated to the new axis between the oligopolies of multinationals and billionaires who hold our data in their pockets and the worst right-wing nationalism that brings new wars, we are not going along with it. Also because people want peace of mind. And we are thinking a lot about this,‘ Schlein said, stressing that ’the crushing of our country by the American administration is causing us to lose the role of bridge and interlocutor that we have always had in the Middle East."
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