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LBCI
7 hours ago
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- LBCI
Iranian Nobel laureates, Cannes winner urge halt to Iran-Israel conflict
Leading Iranian activists and filmmakers on Monday called for an end to hostilities between Iran and Israel, urging Tehran to stop the conflict by halting its enrichment of uranium. "We demand the immediate halt of uranium enrichment by the Islamic Republic, the cessation of military hostilities, an end to attacks on vital infrastructure in both Iran and Israel and the stopping of massacres of civilians in both countries," said the activists in an op-ed in French newspaper Le Monde. The signatories included Nobel Peace Prize winners Shirin Ebadi and Narges Mohammadi, as well as the winner of the top prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Jafar Panahi, and his fellow director, Mohammad Rassoulof. AFP
France 24
12 hours ago
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- France 24
Iranian Nobel laureates, Cannes winner urge halt to Iran-Israel conflict
"We demand the immediate halt of uranium enrichment by the Islamic Republic, the cessation of military hostilities, an end to attacks on vital infrastructure in both Iran and Israel, and the stopping of massacres of civilians in both countries," said the activists in an op-ed in French newspaper Le Monde. The signatories included Nobel peace prize winners Shirin Ebadi and Narges Mohammadi, as well as the winner of the top prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Jafar Panahi, and his fellow director Mohammad Rassoulof. Iran's enrichment of uranium has for decades been a cause of tension with the West and Israel, which fear the drive is aimed at making an atomic bomb, a charge denied by Tehran. "We believe that continuing uranium enrichment and the devastating war between the Islamic Republic and the Israeli regime neither serves the Iranian people nor humanity at large," said the signatories who also included the rights activists Sedigheh Vasmaghi, Shahnaz Akmali and Abdolfattah Soltani. "Uranium enrichment is in no way in the interest of the Iranian people. They must not be sacrificed for the nuclear or geopolitical ambitions of an authoritarian regime," they said. Calling on the Iranian leadership under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down, they said: "The current leaders of the Islamic Republic lack the capacity to resolve Iran's domestic crises or its external tensions." "The only credible path to preserve this country and its people is for current authorities to step down." Panahi returned to Iran last month after winning the Palme d'Or for his latest movie, "It Was Just an Accident", but has been presenting his work this month at a film festival in Australia. Rassoulof, whose latest film was shown at the 2024 festival, now lives in exile after escaping clandestinely that year. Ebadi, who won the 2023 Nobel peace prize, also now lives abroad. Mohammadi, the 2023 laureate, remains in Iran and his currently on leave for health reasons from a prison term. © 2025 AFP
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Nobel laureates urge frozen Russian funds to be used for Ukraine
Frozen Russian assets should be used for the reconstruction of Ukraine and compensation to the victims of the war following a peace agreement, according to an appeal signed by more than 130 Nobel laureates. The signatories include Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Polish activist Lech Wałęsa, authors Elfriede Jelinek, Herta Müller and Orhan Pamuk, physicists Reinhard Genzel, Ferenc Krausz and Roger Penrose, chemists Michael Levitt and Gerhard Ertl, biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and economist Edmund S Phelps. The petition is to be handed over soon to Oleksandra Matviichuk, who heads Ukraine's Centre for Civil Liberties, which was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. The petition notes that Russian central bank assets totalling around €300 billion ($3.25 billion) are currently frozen as a result of sanctions imposed in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The funds are held in bank accounts in the countries of the G7 and the European Union and are generating interest. "We, the Nobel Laureates who have signed this appeal, call on these governments to release these funds from the Russian Central Bank to finance the reconstruction of Ukraine and compensation of war victims so that the country can be rapidly rebuilt after a peace agreement is reached," the petition says. New laws might be needed, but this was necessary "given the undeniable emergency and gross violations of international law," it says. In July last year, the EU released €1.5 billion in interest from the Russian assets to pay for armaments for Ukraine. According to the EU Commission, some €210 billion is currently frozen in the EU. Making use of the funds would require a dispossession order.
