On 14 June, the European Parliament passed a resolution by majority vote expressing its “serious concern at the steadily deteriorating human rights situation in Iran, including for persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, due to systematic political, economic, social, and cultural discrimination.” The resolution, specifically, called upon the Iranian authorities “to guarantee religious freedom in accordance with the Iranian constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and to put a stop in practice to discrimination against and harassment of non-Shia Muslims and Christian minorities and the systematic persecution of the Baha’i minority and the application of the death penalty to converts from Islam…” The resolution reaffirmed the Parliament’s readiness to engage in human rights dialogue with Iran and called upon Iranian authorities to “demonstrate that they are fully committed to cooperating with the international community in improving the human rights situation in Iran.”