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Maryam Rajavi Calls for United Front Against Fundamentalism

Massoud Rajavi: 25,000-strong gathering in London shows Resistance's President-elect enjoys majority support among Iranian people

Following the magnificent rally at Earl's Court London where Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, addressed an audience of 25,000 people, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, appeared in a gathering of thousands of combatants in an NLA base camp.

In a two-hour speech broadcast live via satellite for Europe and Iran, Mr. Rajavi said: Iran's ruling mullahs tried full-force and mobilized all of their embassies across Europe to resort to every conspiracy, blackmail and intimidation to prevent the Iranians' gathering yesterday in London or reduce the number of participants, and particularly prevent the attendance of the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. The firm determination of our compatriots, anxiously seeking Iran's liberation, however, surpassed every conspiracy and dumbfounded the mullahs and their agents, as the international news agencies reported on the largest-ever gathering of 25,000 Iranians abroad in the presence of the Resistance's President-elect.

Mr. Rajavi added:
1. This magnificent, unprecedented rally, beamed five hours live into Iran, Middle East, Europe and the United States, once again indicated that the absolute majority of Iranians, both inside Iran and abroad, support the President-elect Maryam Rajavi who heads the only democratic alternative for the illegitimate religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran.

2. The demonstrations, acts of protest, and publicity activities in 53 cities across Iran which were carried out under conditions of maximum repression, upon the call by the Mojahedin's Command Headquarters inside Iran on the occasion of June 20 and in support of the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, further testify this truth.

3. If Iran's ruling mullahs, their accomplices and those who have set sights on this illegitimate regime deny the truth, they can test their chances versus the Iranian Resistance in a free presidential election, based not on the Velayat-e Faqih but on the principle of national sovereignty, or in an election for the Constituent Assembly which should be carried out with sufficient guarantees, under the auspices of the United Nations.

4. The mullahs' illegitimate regime, however, has never and will never submit to a genuine election and the Iranian people's free choice. This is exactly why on the 15th anniversary of June 20- the day when Khomeini's guards opened fire on the peaceful demonstration of half a million residents of Tehran- and while the people of Iran have offered at least 100,000 of their most valiant children to the cause of freedom and national sovereignty, I reiterate that this regime must be overthrown in its entirety at the hands of the National Liberation Army and with the nation's backing. The day of Iran's freedom is approaching.

5. By bringing pressure on European governments, brandishing terrorist threats, or offering economic concession, Khomeini's remnants have tried their utmost to prevent freedom of expression and activities for Iranians even in Europe, thousands of kilometers away from Iran. The United Nations and its member states, especially the European community members, must not allow such flagrant violations of human rights and the Charter of the United Nations.

6. The mullahs' regime is engulfed in numerous economic, social and political crises, isolated both in Iran and on the international level. An inflation rate of above 100%, heavy foreign debt, the participation of below 10% of the Iranian people in the recent elections farce, as the international news agencies reported and Tehran-based diplomats testified, have made the mullahs "short of breath," "divided" and "deeply hated." With a "disintegrated" system, it has "no way out of the impasse" due to political repression. Therefore, the final stage of this regime has come and it is taking rapid strides towards collapse and overthrow.

The regime invited two members of the European Parliament on a private three-day visit to Tehran so that upon return one of them would hastily describe the Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance as lacking social base inside Iran. It was a futile attempt, however, and did not arouse but the Iranian people's contempt and political outrage of many members of the European Parliament. As Mr. McMillan Scott, the other MEP who went on this three-day visit, bravely announced upon return, "Iran's fundamentalist regime is broke and it needs better relations with Europe. But its international actions are hostile to a more peaceful Middle East and international repression continues against religious and other minorities."

The regime's mobilization of its embassies and Intelligence Ministry agents in various countries to mutually accuse the Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance of violations of human rights - that is to change the places of the executioner and the victim- is a worn-out method which will arouse but contempt and despise.

Many political observers, media and researchers in various countries today describe the regime as being "on the verge of collapse," with an economy "worse than bad," at a stage similar to "the final years of the shah's rule," which has "lost its dynamism and is incapable of taking any steps forward."

7. Viper never gives birth to a dove. The regime survives solely on stepped up terror, repression, and export of terrorism. As in the past, one cannot expect anything from this regime in future other than more repression, terrorism, export of fundamentalism, opposition to peace, and meddling in the affairs of neighboring and Islamic countries.

8. As in the past, appeasing policies such as the policy of critical dialogue will continue to render futile. The only way is to exercise decisiveness, and impose arms, economic and diplomatic embargo against this regime through binding decisions of the United Nations Security Council. Closure of the regime's embassies and representations which are essentially involved in terrorism and espionage in other countries, is an indispensable step in curbing the mullahs' unbridled terrorism on international level.

9. The Iranian Resistance's President-elect who heads the democratic alternative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran symbolizes the aspirations of the Iranian people in their quest for freedom, national and popular sovereignty, peace, co-existence, and economic and social development.

10. Iran's seats at the United Nations belong to the Iranian people and the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Its international recognition is the most effective, most necessary measure the world community can adopt against the illegitimate religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran which is the heart of tension, terror, and export of fundamentalism in today's world, and will be definitely defeated and overthrown by the Iranian people, Resistance and the National Liberation Army.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
June 22, 1996


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