NCRI – “We must side with those seeking freedom and break with those who have stolen it from Iranian people,” said Lord Corbett of Castle Vale in his address to 35,000 Iranians who rallied in Brussels on November 7 in support of the Iranian Resistance. Participants in the rally called for referral of the Iranian regime’s nuclear file to UN Security Council for adoption of an oil embargo against the main source of terrorism in the world.
Lord Corbett started his speech by saluting residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq who are standing firm against the fundamentalist threats from Iran and continued:
“The Foreign Minister of Britain, Mr. Jack Straw and all the foreign ministers of other countries which make up the European Union although not exactly in the rally but they are in Brussels and if they open the window they can hear what we are saying.
“I bring greetings to this rally in the name of 331 members of the British Parliament, more than half of those members and also in the name of 122 members of the House of Lords. All of whom demand that the PMOI is removed from the list of terrorist organizations.
“Those of us in the British Parliament stand alongside of 220 members of the US Congress and members of parliaments all around the European Union. To borrow a phrase that Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will recognize, we are the many; those who want to proscribe the PMOI are the few.
“I have to say to the foreign ministers that it is not the PMOI which in words of Prime Minister Blair last week is supporting the terrorism around the world, not the PMOI but the mullahs. Prime Minister Blair was talking about the mullahs. Similarly it is not the PMOI, again in the words of Prime Minister Blair, Iran is in breach of its nuclear weapons responsibilities and obligations. The Prime Minister’s words not mine, it is not the PMOI who is the guilty party, it is the mullahs.
“Similarly it is not the PMOI which is providing weapons and training for those killing the British troops in Iraq. It is the mullahs and it is not the PMOI which last week called for Israel to be wiped off the map. That was the president in Iran.
“So the question I have for the Foreign Secretary of my own country and all of the others, why is the terror tag not hung around the neck of the mullahs instead of those seeking freedom and democracy in Iran.
“Twelve years ago the Iranian Resistance warned the world that Islamic fundamentalism was a new global threat. Now that threat is nearer and more urgent as the mullahs seek to add nuclear weapons to Islamic fundamentalism in a lethal mix which imperils the Middle East and beyond.
“This is where the United Kingdom and the European Union has arrived after 3 years of appeasement of the mullahs, dancing to the mullahs’ music. It is this appeasement which led to the PMOI being put on the proscribed list at the British stand. This appeasement must now stop. Iran’s breach of nuclear responsibilities and obligations must now be reported to the UN Security Council.
“The Iranian Resistance must be recognized as the strongest force standing in the way of the mullahs’ march towards nuclear weapons and threats to stability with the removal of the proscription.
“The one thing above all else which the mullahs fear is a simple but strong idea, irresistible idea, it is called democracy and it is this that Iranian Resistance promises the people of Iran.
“We must side with those seeking freedom and break with those who have stolen it from Iranian people. The world has lately seen the Georgian’s rose revolution it was followed by Ukraine’s orange revolution, now must come Iran’s saffron revolution.”