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Human Rights Watch Report a catalogue of lies intended to help ruling theocracy |
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Tuesday, 14 June 2005 |
 Maryam Rajavi: HRW Report a catalogue of lies intended
to help the ruling theocracy in Iran on the eve of presidential
election farce
The intent is to prevent the removal of Mojahedin from terrorist list, which has gained growing support in Europe, U.S.
Timing and haste to produce the report, no inquiries from Mojahedin,
the nature of sources, testimony-by-telephone which serve to preserve
an anti-human regime reach unprecedented nadir in manipulating human
rights
The Iranian Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, described
the report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) against the People's Mojahedin
Organization of Iran (PMOI), as a catalogue of false allegations and a
shameful example of rushing to the aid of the religious dictatorship
ruling Iran. On the eve of the discredited presidential election farce,
the clerical regime was in dire need of such an endorsement, she said.
Mrs. Rajavi added, "This report contains nothing new. It is a rehash of
allegations by notoriously discredited agents of the Iranian regime's
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). That no inquiries were
made to either the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) or the
PMOI and that no notice was taken of explanations made public by the
Iranian Resistance, and the haste in putting out this report, clearly
reveal the political agenda behind it."
"The statement by HRW refers to the fact that the call for the removal
of the PMOI from the terrorist list enjoys growing support in Europe
and the U.S. But it underscores, “The Iranian government has a dreadful
record on human rights. But it would be a huge mistake to promote an
opposition group that is responsible for serious human rights abuses.’”
The Iranian Resistance's President-elect added, "As part of a dirty
demonization campaign to keep the PMOI on the terrorism list, this
report is an unprecedented example of using the smokescreen of human
rights allegations to keep an anti-human regime in power. The clerical
regime had also claimed that weapons of mass destruction were being
hidden in PMOI camps and that Iraq’s prisons were overflowing with
“disaffected” Mojahedin. After the fall of the Iraqi regime not even
one such prisoner was found. Despite 150 terrorist operations by the
mullahs against PMOI members and camps in Iraqi territory, which left
dozens killed and hundreds wounded and despite dozens of others
murdered by Tehran’s Intelligence Ministry infiltrators, the Mojahedin
did not punish even one of those agents and returned all of them to
Iran. No one has been sent to Iraqi prisons by the Mojahedin, no one
has been tortured and no one has gone to Iraqi authorities or agencies
except to request legal passage from the border. US forces have done so
in the past two years to facilitate the case of those who wanted to
leave."
Mrs. Rajavi recalled, "If HRW were truly concerned at the violations of
human rights by the Mojahedin, it had the opportunity to visit PMOI
camps in Iraq after the Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi
extended an invitation to it for a visit. Eleven years ago, on October
28, 1994, when HRW levied similar allegations against the Iranian
Resistance, to set the stage for the Clinton administration to label
the Mojahedin as terrorist, Mr. Rajavi said in an October 7, 1994
interview with the Associated Press and in an October 28, 1994 letter
to HRW that the organization was welcomed to visit PMOI camps in Iraq.
Fully aware that such allegations were completely false, HRW never
responded to the invitation."
In the October 7, 1994 interview, the Associated Press quoted Mr.
Rajavi: “Human Rights Watch or any other independent group can visit
PMOI camps and facilities and talk to anyone.” Prior to October 1994,
representatives of the Iranian Resistance had invited HRW twice to
visit PMOI camps in Iraq. More surprisingly, in the past two years,
while the Mojahedin members were consolidated in Camp Ashraf under U.S.
forces’ control and different U.S. agencies were investigating
everything, HRW did not think of visiting the camps, to investigate
in-situ these allegations in order to prepare a factual report.
“Clearly, the demonization campaign that seeks to discredit the Iranian
opposition is indispensable to policy of preserving and expanding
political and economic ties with a regime that has executed 120,000
political prisoners, is the primary source of exporting terrorism and
fundamentalism, and seeks to obtain nuclear weapons, particularly at a
time when 2.8 million Iraqis have supported the Mojahedin and the
Iranian Resistance,” Mrs. Rajavi added.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 19, 2005 |
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