NCRI – In a message on the occasion of Christmas, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, congratulated all Christians in Iran and across the world on the birth of Jesus Christ whose prime words were of unity, benevolence and benediction and who stayed away from injustice and cruelty.
Mrs. Rajavi expressed the hope that the New Year would herald peace, friendship and progress for people throughout the world and bring an end to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran and to its mischief-making and evil conduct.
NCRI – In a message on the occasion of Christmas, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, congratulated all Christians in Iran and across the world on the birth of Jesus Christ whose prime words were of unity, benevolence and benediction and who stayed away from injustice and cruelty.
Mrs. Rajavi expressed the hope that the New Year would herald peace, friendship and progress for people throughout the world and bring an end to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran and to its mischief-making and evil conduct.
Referring to the regime’s bleak record in 2006, Mrs. Rajavi said, the ruling mullahs have stepped up hangings, arrests and the reign of terror in Iranian cities as well as their meddling and terrorism in Iraq and Lebanon and their drive to acquire nuclear weapons in order to preserve their decadent regime.
Mrs. Rajavi pointed to the increase in the crackdown on Christians inside Iran in 2006, the suppression of religious freedoms and the successive arrests of Christians on bogus charges. She said that the mullahs’ regime had appointed a henchman, personally in charge of murdering leaders of Iran’s Christian community, to the post of Director General of the Interior Ministry. For many years Mahmoud Saeedi (Shahidi) worked as head of the Intelligence Ministry’s office in Isfahan under the supervision of then-deputy Minister of Intelligence and Security Saeed Emami. The regime’s Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi recently promoted him to the post of the Ministry’s Director General.
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance said that under the cloak of Islam, the mullahs were engaged in evil misdeeds, such as inciting hatred and enmity against the Church and Christians under different pretexts, sowing discord and violence among Shiites and Sunnis and even exercising vengeance against moderate Shiites. She added that the mullahs had plunged Iraq and Lebanon in bloodshed despite the fact that Islam, Christianity, and other monotheist religions, detested this barbaric regime, which has been hiding behind the veneer of religion, Mrs. Rajavi added.
The Iranian Resistance’s President-elect thanked all Christians around the world who had supported the Iranian people’s Resistance, in particular the People’s Mojahedin in Ashraf City, Iraq, on numerous occasions over the past year. Mrs. Rajavi added that despite the very difficult circumstances as well as the many perils threatening Iraqi Christians and their religious leaders, they had repeatedly defied the mullahs’ regime and persevered in their support for the People’s Mojahedin in Ashraf.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 25, 2006