NCR President thanks participants in Mrs. Zahra Rajabi's funeral procession

This morning, Mr. Zahra Rajabi, a member of the National Council of Resistance, assassinated on February 20 in Istanbul by the clerical regime's diplomat-terrorists, was laid to rest at Paris's Pre Lachaise cemetery, as 1,500 tearful and bereaved Iranians residing in France and a large number of French political, humanist and cultural personalities looked on.

In a message to the participants, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, offered his condolences to the families of Mrs. Rajabi and Mr. Moradi, describing their martyrdom as a testament to the Resistance's dignity and honor.

An official of the offices of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Rajabi had gone to Turkey to address the plight of Iranian refugees in that country. She was assassinated along with Mojahed Ali Moradi by the Khomeini regime's agents.

Emphasizing that the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran is the primary source of the export of terrorism and fundamentalism and the main obstacle to the advancement of peace in the region, Mr. Rajavi said: The only way to confront this regime's unbridled terrorism is to exercise decisiveness and to end all forms of placating policies. He called on the United Nations Security Council and all governments to boycott the criminal rulers of Iran.

Referring to the presence of non-Iranian dignitaries in the funeral, the NCR President described as extremely precious their humanistic solidarity against the mullahs' misogyny and ruthless terrorism. He said the Iranian people will never forget those who offered their friendship during the most difficult period of Iran's history.

Mr. Lars Gunnar Lingaas, philosopher, President of the Norwegian Humanist Organization and of the Norwegian Committee in Defense of Human Rights in Iran, Monsignor Jacques Gaillot and a number of NCR's Committee Chairs, including Mr. Hedayat Matine-Daftary and Ayatollah Jalal Ganje'i, spoke at the funeral procession.

A number of messages of solidarity were read at the procession as well.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris March 15, 1996


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