NCRI, October 22 – The following is the full text of a speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, to the U.S. congressional briefing on Iran via live satellite broadcast, October 20:

I would like to begin by sending my greetings to all of you from afar. I also deem it necessary to thank, on behalf of the Iranian Resistance, the honorable members of the United States House of Representatives and the Senate who have supported the Iranian people and their Resistance for freedom in the darkest period of their history.

NCRI, October 22  – In a briefing on the Capitol Hill initiated by a group of  U.S. Congress members from both Democratic and Republican parties on October 20 entitled “Growing Strategic Threat from Iran, Support for Democratic Change,” speakers called on the Bush administration to support democratic change in Iran and remove the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the main Iranian opposition movement, from the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.

NCRI, October 20 – Russia was urged to help refer the Iranian regime’s nuclear dossier to the United Nations Security Council by Iranians who gathered in Berlin outside the country’s embassy on Wednesday.

Dozens of supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran also called for an end to the policy of appeasement vis-à-vis the clerical regime and the enforcement of an oil embargo to compel the regime to fulfill its international obligations.

NCRI, October 20 – United States policy on Iran was addressed by experts on foreign affairs in a meeting organized by the U.S. Congress Sub-committee on Middle East and Central Asia.

The committee chaired by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, heard Ilan Berman, vice president for policy at the Washington-based American Foreign Policy Council and the author of “Tehran Rising, Iran’s Challenge to the United States,” who explained the Iranian regime’s growing nuclear and terrorist threats to world peace.

In a bid to terrorize and intimidate the public and step up general suppression, particularly against women, the mullahs' misogynous regime has again resorted to issuing stoning verdicts.

The state-run daily Etemaad wrote on October 15 that the Judiciary had sentenced a woman, named Soghra, to death by stoning. The victim was also sentenced to 100 lashes before being stoned to death. Javan daily wrote on October 18 that a young woman by the name of Raheleh had been sentenced to death by hanging.

Some time ago, Abbas Alizadeh, then-Head of Tehran Province's Justice Department told the Iranian state television, "We hand out harsh sentences in our courts. The province's criminal court issues verdicts that are very heavy. You might ask why we do not make these public. We have some political, social and international considerations, which prevent us from making those definite and heavy sentences."

Mrs. Rajavi urges world community to end inaction vis-à-vis mullahs' inhumane crimes

The Iranian Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, offered her condolences to the bereaved family of a 23-year-old young man who was tragically shot and killed by the Revolutionary Guards. She called on the international community to condemn this anti-human and anti-Islamic crime by the mullahs' regime.

The state-run daily Hamshahri wrote that 23-year-old Seyyed Mostafa was shot and killed by the State Security Forces in Tehran's Delgosha Street on Friday for not observing a fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

NCRI, October 18 - A panel of Middle East legal and political experts condemned Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraqi constitution during a conference in the US capital on October 13.

The event, hosted by the Global Coalition Against Fundamentalism, focused on mullahs’ interference in Iraq and the implications of its meddling in the Iraqi constitutional referendum on the main Iranian opposition group, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), based in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

NCRI, October 18 - The legal cases against members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and the supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in Italy on terrorist charges were declared officially closed. The closure was announced in a press conference in Rome on October 13.

NCRI, October 17 - In pursuit of its misinformation and demonization campaign as well as terrorist schemes against the Iranian Resistance, the clerical regime has dispatched several other Intelligence Ministry agents to France, disguised as former members and officials of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) who have recently come from Camp Ashraf.