Ahead of a vote in the plenary session of the European Parliament next week, the AJC Transatlantic Institute urged all MEPs to support crucial amendments submitted by Dutch Liberal MEP Marietje Schaake to a report on the EU strategy towards Iran after the nuclear agreement.

The amendments correct some of the report’s worst shortcomings which in its current form fails to condemn the regime’s anti-Semitic propaganda and repeated calls for the destruction of Israel, said the AJC Transatlantic Institute, the EU Office of the American Jewish Committee (AJC).

Marietje Schaake proposed Thurday two amendments to the text, which clearly condemn Iran’s human rights abuses and repeated denial of the Holocaust.

‘’The report fails to adequately address the regime’s horrific human rights abuses and external aggression, primarily its critical support for Assad’s brutal war on his own population, and its support for international terrorism’’.

Daniel Schwammenthal, Director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute said that ‘’if lawmakers fail next Tuesday to clearly condemn Tehran’s Holocaust denial, threats to Israel and brutalization of its own people, the reputation of the European Parliament as an important voice upholding human rights, freedom and democracy, would suffer a perhaps irreparable blow.’’

“If we compromise on our values in pursuit of our interest, we are likely to lose both,” he added.

The report on Iran was authored by British Labour MEP Richard Howitt and approved by the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this month.