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Saturday, 18 June 2005 |
 Dear compatriots
Honorable French citizens
Distinguished guests,
We gathered here as yesterday, the overwhelming majority of the Iranian
people demonstrated their resolve for the overthrow of the clerical
regime through their decisive boycott of the presidential election
masquerade.
The resounding no to the clerical regime was also a firm response on
the part of the Iranian people to the policy of appeasement by Western
countries, in particular France, vis-à-vis the ruling theocracy in
Iran. This policy was manifested in its ugliest form in the disgraceful
raid two years ago by 1,300 French policemen on the office of the
National Council of Resistance of Iran and the arrest of the
President-elect Maryam Rajavi. The Iranian people rejected both the
criminal mullahs and told the proponents of appeasement that their
efforts to impede the road to democratic change in Iran will get
nowhere.
After the mullahs’ presidential election and two years after June 17, 2003, we have gathered here to declare:
1. The massive boycott of the presidential elections is a
definitive vote by the Iranian people to the clerical regime’s lack of
legitimacy and the need to overthrow them. We declare to the world and
especially the European Union that the in no way do the mullahs
represent the Iranian people. After this election, any deal making with
this totalitarian regime is doubly illegitimate.
2. The June 17 raid was carried out at the behest of the
mullahs ruling Iran. The continuing pressure against the Iranian
Resistance and keeping the case alive in France is due to the Iranian
regime’s pressures. This dossier is completely empty. We call on the
government of France to abide by the decisive vote of the Iranian
people against the ruling fascism and not surrender to the demands of a
bloodthirsty regime. It must close this unjust case immediately.
3. Two years of June 17, those fabricating this case
acknowledge that there is no trace of terrorism in it. Earlier, the
French Judiciary released all those arrested and suspended the orders
to expel members and sympathizers of the Resistance. It also
underscored that the Mojahedin conduct did not harm the security of
France and the French public and reiterated that the dossier is empty.
In these circumstances, we condemn the financial case trumped up
against the Resistance. This is an attempt to keep this case alive.
4. The great nation of Iran that has offered 120,000 of
its most valiant children to the cause of Iran’s freedom provides
financial assistance to this regime. We declare that offering financial
support to this Resistance is the least we Iranians in exile could due.
We will carry out this duty regardless of whatever consequences it
might have.
5. We condemn the access to the information in the June 17
case by the mullahs’ Intelligence Ministry and its operatives. We call
on competent officials to end immediately this dirty collusion with the
Intelligence Ministry, because it endangers the lives of many in Iran.
6. The election masquerade again reaffirmed that appeasing
the mullahs and granting concessions to them will get nowhere and will
not bring about reform. On the contrary, it only strengthens the
position of the most extremist factions of the regime. We also urge
Western governments to end this unethical and irrational policy and
stay neutral in the fight between the Iranian people and the
bloodthirsty mullahs.
7. The viable and effective response to the regime ruling
Iran is neither appeasement nor war, but democratic change by relying
on the Iranian people and their organized resistance. The Iranian
Resistance’s President-elect proposed this option at the European
Parliament last December and has been enthusiastically received on the
international scene. Supporting and defending the Iranian Resistance,
regardless of one’s political or ideological orientation, is a
nationalist and patriotic duty toward bringing about change in Iran.
8. The terror tag against the People’s Mojahedin
Organization of Iran is the most damaging result of appeasement, the
most important obstacle to change in Iran and the denial of the right
of the Iranian people to resist. In the past few months, thousands of
parliamentarians in different European countries and North America,
international conferences of jurists in Paris, London, Rome and Oslo,
major conventions by Iranians in Washington, DC, Brussels, Berlin,
Texas and California and the declaration by 2.8 million Iraqi citizens
have called for the removal of the Mojahedin from the terrorist list.
In unison with the Iranian people, we say to the European Union and the
United States that this label and all the resultant consequences must
be quickly eliminated.
9. The completely false report by Human Rights Watch
against the People’s Mojahedin is a desperate reaction to the expansion
of the Resistance, the exposure of the mullahs’ nuclear project and
their meddling in Iraq as well as increasing support in Europe and
America for the removal of the Mojahedin from the terrorist list. So
far, hundreds of parliamentarians, the most distinguished jurists,
lawyers, and human rights advocates, political, artistic, social and
religious personalities have voiced protests at this report, which is a
disgraceful example of exploiting human rights for political ends. We
strongly condemn this report and call on Human Rights Watch to retract
this report and apologize to the Iranian people and the People’s
Mojahedin.
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