James Stevens (Sturt, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

In the final moments of this debate, I would like to commend all the other contributions from speakers in the coalition and quickly highlight the plight of Mr Milad Armoun, in particular, a young gentleman who has now been convicted and sentenced to death by the Iranian regime. He is a very good example of why it is so important to support this motion and declare the IRGC a terrorist organisation. His human rights have been completely abused by the Iranian regime, and, as I mentioned, he awaits the death penalty in Iran as we speak. I have taken the step, as many members of parliament have, of taking a personal interest in one particular victim of this regime. Mr Milad Armoun is the one that I stand up for, but I know that many members of parliament in this chamber, and across the world, are standing up for the thousands of people who are, as we speak, facing injustice and abuse of their human rights in Iran. That is why it is so vital that we as a parliament have unity around the condemnation of the behaviour of the Iranian regime and the IRGC and, equally, take the step of declaring them to be a terrorist organisation.

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