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In a rally in Stockholm, thousands condemn HRW’s biased report against PMOI |
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Thursday, 23 June 2005 |
In a rally in Stockholm, thousands of Iranians, Swedish political personalities condemn HRW’s biased report against PMOI
Participants support democratic change in Iran lead by Maryam Rajavi, call for removal of terror tag on PMOI
This afternoon, thousands of Iranians residing in Sweden took part in a
demonstration in Stockholm’s Sergel Square to condemn the policy of
appeasement vis-à-vis the clerical regime.
They also rejected foreign military intervention as a means for change
and voiced support for the third option put forth by Mrs. Maryam
Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of
Iran, namely democratic change through the Iranian people and
Resistance.
The demonstrators were carrying the tri-colored flag of Iran and
portraits of the Resistance’s leaders. They called for the immediate
revocation of the terror label against the main Iranian opposition
movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI),
describing the tag as a major impediment to democratic change in Iran.
Iranians also condemned the biased report by the U.S.-based
organization, Human Rights Watch, against the PMOI, which they said was
a catalogue of lies and baseless accusations churned out by the
clerical regime and prepared with a political agenda.
The demonstrators said the fact that the report was timed with the
growing support in Europe and the United States for the removal of the
PMOI from the terrorist list as well as the presidential election sham
in Iran showed that it was part of a dirty campaign to keep the PMOI on
the list and an effort to assist the mullahs’ crisis-riddled regime.
They also denounced pressures exerted on Iranian refugees and
asylum-seekers, reiterating that it was indispensable to the policy of
appeasing the mullahs and submitting to their demands. The
demonstrators called on the Swedish government to provide the necessary
accommodations for refugees and asylum-seekers.
Noting the increasing possibility of the clerical regime obtaining
nuclear weapons and the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran,
the demonstrators emphasized the need for the adoption of a decisive
policy against the Iranian regime.
In a video message to the demonstrators, Mrs. Rajavi reiterated the
illegitimacy of the upcoming presidential election farce in Iran,
pointing out that Iranians would boycott the sham. “The other reality
is that the election farce is tantamount to a funeral for the policy of
appeasement and reform-maneuver within the religious dictatorship. This
means that appeasement and reform pretenses are no longer tenable and
the mullahs have no way out this time,” Mrs. Rajavi added.
She urged the international community to reject the mullahs’
presidential election sham and to declare the election farce
illegitimate and stand with the Iranian people as they stand for
democracy and freedom.
Mrs. Rajavi also condemned pressures exerted on refugees and asylum
seekers, in particular women asylum seekers, in Sweden and said: “The
policy of appeasement and collaboration by the Europeans has rendered
those governments’ treatment of asylum seekers similar to fascistic
conduct.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 21, 2005 |
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