Calls for freeze on other Tehran regime accounts in Europe
NCRI – The Iranian Resistance welcomed the freezing of the Iranian regime’s account in a bank in Rome, Italy, and called for other bank assets of the Tehran regime in Italy to be frozen as well.
According to news reports, a civil court in Rome froze until the completion of investigations an account of the clerical regime’s embassy which held about $600m. The order was issued because of the Tehran regime’s support for terrorism linked to this account. The mullahs unsuccessfully tried to buy off or threaten the authorities and invoked the Vienna convention governing diplomatic relations, to force the unfreezing of the account in Italy.
Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, recalled the Tehran regime’s terrorist operations in European countries and drew the attention of the foreign and interior ministers of Italy to the fact that the clerical regime not only spent a huge sum of money on terrorist acts against other countries, but also allocated millions of dollars to the assassination of Iranian dissidents abroad. The regime’s officials and agents are currently being prosecuted or have been condemned by courts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Turkey and many other countries for assassinating opposition members. Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, NCRI’s representative in Italy was murdered in 1993 in Rome by the regime’s assassins assisted by foreign terrorists. The regime’s official and unofficial representative offices in various countries are involved in criminal and terrorist activities.
Mohaddessin called for a freeze on all other clerical regime’s bank accounts in Europe. "Other countries must not allow the Iranian people’s assets to be used for terrorist and criminal acts that threaten Iranians and peace and security in Europe," he added.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 13, 2005