NCRI – At the “Free Iran” rally last weekend in Paris, Ed Royce, the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke of the threat that Iran’s regime poses to its people and the wider world.
Rep. Royce was unable to attend the event but his statement was relayed via video message at the rally.
He relayed the reports that the Iranian regime has been consistently erasing the rights of the Iranian people since it seized power, including the incarceration of hundreds of political prisoners and the execution of over 2,400 people under the rule of President Hassan Rouhani.
Congressman Royce, a Republican Representative from California, said: “Over the past three and a half decades, thousands of Iranians have been taken from family and friends and convicted of vague charges without due process, often in closed trials. As we know, tens of thousands have been killed [and] thousands have been tortured in Evin prison. It doesn’t have to be this way.”
He encouraged Congress to press for sanctions on senior Iranian officials who assist in human rights abuses.
Rep. Royce said: “It is time to say enough, and that’s why the Foreign Affairs Committee passed House Resolution 650. This critical resolution publicly pushes back against the Iraqi government’s failure to effectively protect the residents of Camp Liberty and calls for their immediate resettlement. We must continue to push back against the Iranian government’s abuse of human rights at home and abroad.”
Camp Liberty, in Iraq, houses members of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK).