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Rajavi condemns Iran’s extensive meddling in Iraq

Rajavi condemns Iran’s extensive meddling in IraqLeader of the Iranian opposition in exile says making concessions to Iran’s mullahs is not way to avoid war.

Middle East Online – Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian opposition in exile was in Strasburg, France, on April 10 for a formal visit to the Council of Europe on an invitation by the Liberal Party Group at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

The President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), addressed the meeting in French, on the current Iranian situation and the nuclear crises between Iran and the UN Security Council.

“Today, I have come to say that the international community is not required to choose between the nuclear-armed mullahs or a war,” Rajavi said, adding: “There is a third option: Democratic change by the Iranian people and their organized resistance. Making concessions to the mullahs is not the way to avoid war. It would increase the possibility of a war. It is necessary to react quickly. We do not have much time.”

Rajavi condemned Iran’s extensive meddling and terrorist activities in Iraq, including fomenting a sectarian war between the Shiites and the Sunnis as well as establishing secret detention and torture centers in that country.

She also reminded that the Swiss justice had only recently issued a warrant of arrest against former Iranian Intelligence minister Ali Fallahian, for the latter’s involvement in the assassination of Prof. Kazem Rajavi, representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Switzerland, in 1990 in Geneva.

She asked for Iran’s main opposition organisation, the Mojahedin Khalq (MEK), to be removed from the EU’s terrorist list, pointing to the British Foreign Secretary’s recent acknowledgement that it had proscribed the MEK at the behest of the Iranian regime. She said that “500 pre-eminent lawyers and more than 1,000 parliamentarians in Europe declared their opposition to the terror label against the movement, because it allows the mullahs to suppress a legitimate resistance.”

Rajavi offered a ten-point outline of the views of the movement under her leadership for future Iran. NCRI President-elect said that she was committed to a pluralist and secular state based on popular vote, which adheres to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, supports the abolition of death penalty, recognizes the free market, aspires for a nuclear free Iran devoid of weapons of mass destruction and seeks equal relations with the rest of the world.

Lord Russell-Johnston, the honorary President of the Liberal Group and former President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe said in his opening remarks, "Rajavi and her movement present a genuine democratic alternative to the fundamentalist rulers of Iran. There is no basis for the allegation against the MEK, the blacklisting of the organization has also affected the activities of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. We should say it loud and clear, NCRI is a democratic coalition."