Mullahs resort to new scheme to forestall retraction of critical dialogue

Talks between a troika delegation and the clerical regime's authorities, aimed at ending the mullahs' support for terrorism, murder of innocent citizens and hostility to peace, proved futile. Concerned over the possibility of European Union's retracting of critical dialogue and adopting of a firm approach, the clerics have resorted to deceitful schemes they have often used in the past.

In a meeting with an Irish parliamentary delegation, yesterday, Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, the Majlis speaker, repeated the humiliating proposal set forth some time ago by Velayati and Rafsanjani. Referring to the Iranian Resistance, he claimed: "A number of European countries have harbored and supported terrorists who have confessed to terrorism and murder in Iran."

In so saying, Nateq-Nouri displayed the regime's ire at the credibility and stature of the National Council of Resistance in the international community. By reverting to this desperate balancing act, he tacitly pleaded with the European countries to restrict the activities of the Iranian Resistance.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran recalls Khomeini's heirs' deceptive and demagogic ploys in dealing with their international interlocutors in previous years. It emphasizes that following the failure of talks between a troika's delegation and the regime's leaders, there is no room for procrastination in halting placating policies toward the mullahs' regime. As it stated prior to the current visit to Tehran, the European Union must retract critical dialogue and put the adoption of a decisive policy on its agenda.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris April 9, 1996

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