Resolution unanimously approved by Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee ‘Italy will be on the frontline against this barbarism,’ committee speaker tells Arab News ROME: The Italian Senate’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee unanimously approved on Tuesday a resolution urging Iran to respect women’s rights and stop its crackdown on peaceful protesters. The resolution was proposed by Sen. Stefania Craxi, speaker of the committee. “My text received full support by all the parties,” she told Arab News. “This clearly signifies the unanimous condemnation by the Italian Parliament of the barbarism carried out by the regime in Tehran since the killing of Mahsa Amini.” The 22-year-old died at the hands of Iran’s morality police in September for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly. Under the resolution, the Italian government “must push the Iranian regime, both directly and in every multilateral forum, so that the repression and violence may stop immediately.” The text also commits the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to “continuing its intense diplomatic and sanctioning actions, in line with the other countries of the EU, so that Iranian authorities guarantee full respect for human rights toward their own citizens and toward the minorities in that country.” Craxi said: “We all need to work with the utmost promptness to avoid the risk of new executions against the demonstrators who were arrested and tried in recent months. “The yearning for freedom of the Iranian people mustn’t leave us indifferent. Italy will be on the frontline against this barbarism.” Speaking to the committee before the vote, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani reaffirmed his “firm condemnation of the use of the death penalty as a tool in the crackdown on protests.” He said he will summon the new Iranian ambassador in Rome “to express our disappointment with what is happening in his country.”