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۱۳۹۷ دی ۱۹, چهارشنبه

Plots of the Mullahs' Intelligence Ministry and Embassy in Norway

Statement of the Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Norway

The clerical regime's terrorist plot in Europe in 2018, organized by the diplomats and embassies of the religious fascism ruling Iran, has made a review in relations with this regime ever more necessary. In 2018, the regime's terrorist plots spanned over Albania, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark. In the same year a terrorist-diplomat of the regime was arrested in Germany and handed over to Belgian judiciary, the regime's ambassador and the head of Iran’s Intelligence station in Albania, and three other diplomat-terrorist of this regime were expelled from France and the Netherlands.
Developments in 2018 showed that the clerical regime and its ambassadors and diplomats in Norway, severely abuse the embassy and facilities to advance their terrorist and spying purposes. That includes imposing two agents by the names of Bahareh Heydari and Mohammad Davoodzadeh as refugees, entrapping the Minister of Fisheries of Norway through the same female agent and bringing him to Iran and getting his information through his mobile phone. The representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in this regard calls for the opening of a judicial case in Norway.
The NCRI representative also stresses the need and urgency of listing the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) as terrorist entity, and the prosecution and sentencing of agents and mercenaries of the religious fascism and expelling them from Norway and other European countries and in particular the revocation of their refugee status. The agents and mercenaries of the mullahs’ religious fascism in Norway and those who, under any pretext, directly or indirectly, interact with the Iranian regime and co-operate in some ways with it and at the same time use refugee or asylum seeker status, are not entitled to asylum. They are criminals who undermine the security of real asylum seekers and Iranian dissidents, undermine the dignity and the right to asylum for freedom loving and noble Iranians, and also threaten the security of the host Per Sandberg country and its citizens. The following facts are remarkable:
1. Bahareh Heydari, wo was sent to Norway in 2006, has pursued a specific mission for many years. She, who has close ties with the ambassador, the embassy and regime officials, after having acquired a Norwegian citizenship, entrapped Norway's Fisheries Minister, Per Sandberg. To this end, she established a fisheries trade company and a Norwegian-Iranian Friendship Association. According to the Norwegian press, the first meeting of this association was held at the office of the Minister of Fisheries. Bahareh Heydari accompanied Sandberg at a party of the regime's ambassador in Oslo for Nowruz 1397 and then visited Iran at least twice. This ultimately led to the resignation of Sandberg from the government and his expulsion from his party. Trapping through women is a well-known method of the mullahs’ Intelligence that it has used repeatedly.
2. According to Aftenposten on December 21, the Norwegian Committee for "investigation into quarantine of government authorities," condemned the meeting of Norwegian Fisheries Minister accompanied by Baharegh Heydari with an advisor to Rouhani at presidential palace of the mullahs in Tehran and promises of cooperation with the regime at this meeting as a clear violation of the laws of Norway and abuse of official authority.
3- At the Nowruz celebration of 1397 of the embassy, in addition to Bahareh Heydari and Per Sandberg, another intelligence agent, Mohammad Davoodzadeh, is also present in the front row and close to the regime's ambassador. Davoodzadeh was arrested upon his return from Iran on October 21 at the Gothenberg airport in Sweden at the request of the Danish government on suspicion of involvement in terrorist plots against Iranian dissidents. He was sent to Norway in 2008 to pose as a refugee and obtain Norwegian citizenship, which provided him with a lot of facilities for performing the duties assigned by the Ministry of Intelligence. He traveled frequently to Iran despite having refugee status. This is a betrayal of all refugees and based on the Geneva Convention and the laws of Norway completely revokes his refugee status.
Davoodzadeh was tasked to get close to the PMOI and NCRI in Norway, but further research highlighted the suspicion of being a mercenary; the issue was communicated with Norwegian officials to prevent future terrorist plots and espionage.
4. As the scandal about relations with the religious fascism ruling Iran spread, Bahareh Heydari, along with Per Sandberg, try desperately to cover up this scandal by attacking the PMOI and the NCRI. In a book that the two published entitled "Foreign powers have entered," they shamelessly claimed "Bahareh says she is neither affiliated with nor connected to the Iranian regime, and suspicions against her, indicating that she is a spy or secret agent, is only ludicrous." On page 211 of the book, Per Sandberg ridiculously made himself loved by the mullahs and without providing any date or time or document, claimed that the tone of the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, with "Bahareh was humiliating and ugly." As if the representative of the Iranian Resistance has to praise the agents and collaborators of religious Gestapo!
5. The female agent, in order to hike her price for the mullahs, while claiming that she has no relationship or affiliation to the mullahs' regime, in an interview with the Norwegian media says, “we want to go to Iran, but I'm worried that the PMOI will target me inside Iran.” Female agent shamelessly adds, “I have notified Iranian government officials about this and they assured me that during my visit to Iran they would protect me!!” (Aftenposten, August 27, and Adresseavisen, August 25, 2018).
6. The female agent, in a dirty scenario and lie claims, "Both on Facebook and Instagram has been threatened to be killed. His brother in Germany received a phone call from an active member of the PMOI in Norway that if he does not make her sister choke, they will not be silenced. He warned her (i.e. Bahareh) not to go out." This criminal defamation is a ground for terrorism and further crimes by the mullahs against the Iranian Resistance and was categorically denied at the time from the NCRI Representative in the Aftenposten newspaper. (August 27, 2018)
7. The embassy of a regime that has executed thousands of PMOI heroine women and every day arrests scores of women for malveiling or being unveiled, and fines them and whips them, a regime that even forces foreign female officials to wear hijabs in teir trips to Iran, has accepted the cost of Bahareh Heydari’s clothing to participate in “Miss Iran!” contest in Europe! The same regime inside Iran throws acid on the faces of malweiled women who do not fully cover their hair, while none of them have the slightest resemblance in clothing to this “Miss Norway!” in the Norwegian “Se og Hør” magazine. (7 to 14 August 2018). To the confession of the female agent in the same magazine, the ambassador and embassy of the very same regime in Norway congratulated her on her victory in “Miss Norway” contest, and appreciated and welcomed her!
8. Vulgarity peaks when the female agent and Per Sandberg resort to another exposed agent, Trond Ali Lynstad, to slander foul against the PMOI. He became Shiite with the mullahs ruling Iran and repeats their slanders against the Iranian resistance; Repeated despicable charges such as torturing disenfranchised members, sect, the cult of personality, people’s hatred towards the PMOI and NCRI, treason, participation in the suppression of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites (pages 210 to 214 Same book).
Lynstad, the only Norwegian, who defends the two men in the service of the religious Gestapo, was for many years a member of the NKP party, a Norwegian version of the hated and traitor party of Tudeh, and a fierce "communist". He, like Kianouri and Tabari – Tudeh Party leaders –became Muslim and Shiite overnight and declared Khomeini as his leader, changing his name to Trond Ali.
9. The invalidity of the lies that the religious Gestapo relays through the female agent and Per Sandberg that have been repeated thousands of times in the mullahs regime media in Iran, has been proven in dozens of courts in the US and Europe. According to the verdicts of the same courts, the United States and the European Union and the United Kingdom abolished the terrorist label against the PMOI and the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The Norwegian government announced from the onset that it did not accept the EU terrorist list and only accepts UN terrorist list.
10. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance for the transition of governance to the Iranian people, in one of her travels to Norway in December 2009, met with Gunnar Sønsteby, the national hero of the Norwegian resistance against Hitler's fascism, which was reported in Aftenposten December 6, 2009. When the reporter of Aftenposten asked the national champion of Norway about charges of terrorism and demonization against the Iranian Resistance, the Great Gunnar, pointing to Mrs. Rajavi said: “All resistances - that are fighting against dictatorships and for democracy – are poised to these accusations. Don’t listen to these things - we and the resistance movement and the Norwegian Milorg were also terrorists and anarchists and aggressors and torturers and so on!”
11. In December 2018 the Norwegian media wrote that the book has not sold more than fifty copies and the rest has remained unsold. The notorious authors of this book, angered by the credibility of the Iranian Resistance in Norway wrote:
- "Parviz Khazaei is known in Norway and by Norwegian media as a trusted source and expert, and political authorities and the parliament and even the Progressive party attach him to their chest and worship him like God."
- "Neither Khazaei, nor other members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, are willing to distance themselves from past actions of this group, be it the killing of civilians or being a close ally of Saddam Hussein in the fight against Iraqi Kurds and Shiite Muslims. Khazaei says: ‘We have carried out a legitimate war.’ (pages 213 and 214 of the same book). "
12. The National Council of Resistance of Iran and all its members are proud of having a history and record full of patriotism and freedom loving, and their actions not only were in line with freedom and popular sovereignty in Iran but also with peace in the region and the world, and preventing the spread of fundamentalism and terrorism and the formation of an "Islamic empire" and obtaining of atomic bombs by the religious fascism ruling Iran. In May 2011, a French judge announced in his decision that based on the French laws, the PMOI operations inside Iran were resistance operations and in Ashraf and Iraq has been the performance of a regular army, none of which is considered terrorism. As such, the case that the French government had opened against the Iranian resistance at the request of the Iranian regime in 2001with spending tens of millions of Euros under the pretext of terrorism, was closed forever.
13. Another patriotic pride of the Iranian Resistance is the exposing the regime's nuclear sites and projects that have been acknowledged times and again by Western officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). When the NCRI at a press conference in Washington, DC, in 2002 disclosed sites in Arak and Natanz, no one in the world was aware of the efforts of the regime to obtain nuclear weapons, and the Iranian Resistance defused the project to obtain nuclear bomb by the religious fascism. Rouhani in his book titled "National Security and the nuclear diplomacy" wrote the IAEA had promised that by 2003, about 54 thousand centrifuges would work but the press conference of the PMOI and false accusations stalled everything.
14 - The mullahs' foreign agents and enablers forget that Khomeini's thesis was the Islamic version of the so-called "Mine Camp" of Hitler and explicitly called for a "global caliphate of Islam". This idea has been named in the Introduction of the constitution of the regime as “The Union of Islamic Republics”. Iraq, with its 1,200 km border with Iran and the majority of the Shiite population was the first loop. The goal was shattered by the NCRI peace plan and the National Liberation Army (like Milorg of Norway) and forced Khomeini to drink the chalice of ceasefire and to end the eight-year war with deceptive slogans of conquest of Jerusalem via Karbala.
15 – The NCRI peace plan that was adopted in March 1983 had the support of 6,000 political leaders, government officials and parliamentarians, especially in the US and Europe, and was published as a book at that time. The NCRI peace plan fully secured Iran's national interests, and put the 1975 Algiers accord, which the Iraqi government at the beginning of the war had declared null and void, as the basis for peace, and put getting compensation also on the agenda. At that time, many Arab countries announced they were ready to contribute to Iran's compensation payments. But Khomeini and his anti-national policy of "war, war until victory" led to the point where today, 37 years after the Council's peace plan, while it is 16 years that the puppets of the clerical regime rule in Iraq, the Iranian regime has failed to sign a peace deal with this government.
The NCRI representative points out once again that the demonization campaign of the clerical regime in Norway against the PMOI is part of the espionage and terrorism plans of the mullahs in Europe. The machine of disseminating fake news and demonization by this regime, using the "friendly journalists" of the Ministry of Intelligence, and thousands of fake Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google and other social media accounts and internet facilities, provides the grounds for espionage and terrorism plots.
The intelligence, terrorist and spy agents of religious fascism should not be allowed to commit further crimes. The time has come to expose and publish the names of the mercenaries and the affiliates of the regime and the trial and expulsion of them.

Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Oslo - January 6, 2019
Mohammad Davoodzadeh, fourth from the left
Nowruz celebration of the regime’s embassy in Oslo 1397
First from the left: The regime’s ambassador
Third from the left: Bahareh Heydari
Fourth from the left: Per Sandberg
Sixth from the left: Mohammad Davoodzadeh

۱۳۹۷ آذر ۷, چهارشنبه

Present The Statement Of 150 MEPs To Mrs. Maryam Rajavi

The EP delegation noted the statement of 150 MEPs and conveyed the support of their colleagues in the European Parliament to Maryam Rajavi.

On Sunday, November 25, a delegation of the European Parliament visited Mrs.Maryam Rajavi in Albania, EU delegation offered the statement of 150 MEPs to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the NCRI.
In addition, to discuss over the situation of members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/ MEK) in Albania, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi admired the MEPs’ support for the organized resistance movement. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi also explained the latest developments of the Iranian Resistance and resistance unitsinside Iran.
Maryam Rajavi’s website published a report about this meeting:
November 25, 2018 – A delegation of members of the European Parliament, including Mr. Tunne Kelam, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Vice Chair of Friends of a Free Iran inter-parliamentary group, Mr. Jaromir Stetina, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Defense, and Mr. Struan Stevenson, coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change, met with Maryam Rajavi.
The EP delegation noted the statement of 150 MEPs and conveyed the support of their colleagues in the European Parliament to Maryam Rajavi. The statement of MEPs stipulates, “Since late December last year, Iranian cities have been the scenes of major uprisings and anti-regime protests. The social atmosphere is volatile, and people demand fundamental change. The regime’s officials have acknowledged the role of “resistance units” of the opposition PMOI in organizing protests and nationwide strikes.”
The statement emphasizes, “Unable to defeat the protesters at home, the regime launched a new wave of terrorism against the democratic opposition activists in Europe and in the United States.”
The statement by MEPs concludes, “We must hold the Iranian regime accountable for its terror plots and expel Iranian Intelligence Ministry operatives from Europe. We must also condition our relations with Iran to an improvement of human rights and women’s rights, and a halt to executions.”
During the meeting, Mr. Tunne Kelam said: I have been closely following up on Iran and the Iranian Resistance for 20 years. I have personally met and seen the PMOIin Ashraf and talked to hundreds of them. This is the second time I am visiting them, in Albania. What I saw today was truly remarkable, indicating on the one hand, their wonderful advances in building this place in such a short period of time and on the other hand, their livelihood and joy. To me, this is a promise that the people of Iran will achieve their freedom.
Mr. Kelam congratulated Maryam Rajavi on these advances and said: Your movement has set a new moral, political and democratic standard, something that gives you the power to confront the medieval, fundamentalist regime ruling Iran.
At the same time, Mrs. Rajavi and PMOI have provided moral and political inspiration for hundreds of European political leaders in supporting PMOI’s struggle for freedom in Iran. European politicians have been encouraged to take a strong and principled political stand versus the appeasement policy, Mr. Kelam added.
Mr. Stetina also said: A wide range of MEPs from different political groups support the PMOI and the National Council of Resistance of Iran. They are confident that Iran’s future is tied to this Resistance and to you, personally. This is why the Iranian regime has once again resorted to terrorism. Their ill-fated terrorist attempts in Albania, France, and the U.S. clearly show that the Iranian regime views this movement as its main existential threat. When it cannot defeat the PMOI and the NCRI by suppression and terror, it moves full force to deploy the mercenaries and “reporters” it has trained to demonize the Resistance and carry out smear campaigns. This is something that we have very well experienced in the European Parliament.
Mr. Stevenson also said in this meeting: All signs indicate that Iran’s ruling regime is in dire straits and cannot continue its rule. The emphases by the leader, president and other officials of the regime leave no doubts on the role of the PMOI in advancing the popular uprisings. Therefore, there is nothing strange for us that their slander machine has been put to work at its highest speed. These efforts are in vain and will not deceive anyone.
Maryam Rajavi expressed her appreciation for the efforts of members of the European Parliament. Explaining in detail the latest developments on the volatile state of the Iranian society and the regime’s aggravating crises, she said: Despite massive repression, widespread arrests and murders in detention projected as suicides, the Iranian people’s uprisings have continued ever since they started in the final days of last year, becoming ever more organized. The growing trend of strikes, protests, and demonstrations by workers, farmers, and other toiling sectors have sounded the alarm bells for the regime, bringing closer the prospects of victory of freedom and democracy over the dark religious tyranny that has invaded our homeland for four decades.

۱۳۹۷ شهریور ۷, چهارشنبه

#Iranians worldwide memorialize the #1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners on August 25th.

Statement from Iranian Communities in Europe on the Saturday event

Feeling threatened by the dissent against his absolute rule, less than 10 years into the Islamic revolution, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a religious decree, known as the “death decree” to execute all political prisoners, most of whom were members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
some of the 30000 dead
Statement from Iranian Communities in Europe on the Saturday event
Iranian associations in 30 major cities in Europe and North America plan to hold gatherings and link up online
30th anniversary of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners – Iranian associations urge support for the Iranian people’s uprising and a firm policy regarding human rights abuses
Iranian associations in 30 major cities and capitals in Europe and North America, on Saturday, August 25, will simultaneously hold commemorations for 30,000 political prisoners who were massacred in 1988.
The simultaneous events will take place against a backdrop of anti-government protests that have continued for the past eight months and have shaken the regime to its core.
The gathering, titled “30th anniversary of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran – the roots of the uprising and its prospects,” will take place on the initiative of the Iranian associations, supporters of the Resistance, throughout Europe and North America. The events will be connected to each other through live visual communications and will include live exchanges of various locations.
Representatives of Iranian associations and political and social dignitaries from various countries will address the events. Thousands of Iranians, members of the associations, will take part in the events that will be held in 30 cities including Paris, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Rome, Oslo, Brussels, Ottawa, Vancouver, Bucharest, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Stuttgart, and Aarhus. The survivors of the 1988 massacre and relatives of the victims will share their stories. Scores of dignitaries in various countries will participate in the events in solidarity with the Iranian people and their aspirations.
The Iranian associations taking part in the event are comprised of various strata of the Iranian society, including the youths, students, technocrats, entrepreneurs, businessmen, academics university professors and women’s rights activists, all of which seek the overthrow of the mullahs’ regime.
the mullahs
The simultaneous gatherings are part of an international campaign to call on the UN to launch an inquiry into the 1988 massacre and to put an end to the impunity of the authorities involved in it. According to international human rights organizations and human rights experts, the massacre is one of the most egregious cases of crimes against humanity since World War II.
Yet many of its perpetrators are currently among the most senior officials of the regime and are directly involved in suppressing anti-government protests.
Patrick Kennedy, former US Congressman and son of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, will be among the participants in the Paris gathering.
Background information
Following a fatwa by Khomeini, the founder of the clerical regime, more than 30,000 political prisoners, who were serving their terms and remained loyal to the cause of democracy and human rights, were executed in a few months in 1988. The overwhelming majority of the victims were activists of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) who remained loyal to the organization.
grave
Upon Khomeini’s order for speedy executions, “Death Commissions” were established throughout the country. The commissions condemned the prisoners to death in hearings that lasted only a few minutes. The victims were buried in secret mass graves.
Recently, Amnesty International has warned of the regime’s efforts to destroy the evidence of this massacre, including some of the mass graves. So far, no independent international investigation has been carried out into the massacre, and there has been no accountability for the perpetrators.
In an audio file recorded at the height of the massacre in 1988 and released in 2016, Khomeini’s successor at the time, Hossein Ali Montazeri, explicitly told the Tehran Death Commission that this was the most horrific crime in the history of the Islamic Republic, prompting Khomeini to sack Montazeri in March 1989. Subsequent to Khomeini’s death in June 1989, Ali Khamenei became the supreme leader of the regime. Following the revelation of Montazeri’s audio file in August 2016, a massive social movement to call for justice for victims of this massacre pervaded Iran.
Iranian Communities in Europe

۱۳۹۶ اسفند ۳, پنجشنبه

Menendez Statement on Assad Regime’s Deadly Bombardment in East Ghouta



U.S. Senator Bob Menendez

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement condemning the Assad regime after pro-government forces, backed by Russia and Iran, brutally bombarded a Damascus suburb killing hundreds of people and injuring even more.
“I am appalled and sickened by the escalation in violence the Assad regime and its backers have inflicted in East Ghouta.  The number of dead and wounded civilians, including women and children, combined with attacks on medical facilities are staggering and another indication that this regime’s actions amount to war crimes for which it must be held accountable.
“While I support the Administration’s call for all parties to commit to an unconditional de-escalation of violence, and a cessation of violence to allow for unfettered humanitarian access and medical evacuation, these actions are the bare minimum that we should be seeking. I urge the Trump Administration to set its objectives higher and move beyond words and tweets to decisive diplomatic leadership to protect civilians and hold Assad and his backers accountable.
“President Trump still believes that Russia can be a partner in compelling the Assad regime to stop killing the Syrian people, and in diminishing Iran’s role in Syria. He must confront the facts: Russia and Iran have directly supported the escalation in violence over the past 72 hours; facilitating the slaughter of innocent lives.
“Russia is not a partner for ending the war in Syria.  Assad and his regime are able to act with impunity because of support from the thugs, criminals, and butchers in Moscow and Tehran.  Now is the time to use the authorities from Congress to make it deeply painful for any person still willing to support Assad, and reclaim the mantle of U.S. leadership by galvanizing a political process to end the Syrian war.”

۱۳۹۶ مرداد ۳۱, سه‌شنبه

At last, US leaders who know the truth about Iran



A strongly worded statement from 30 prominent Americans in support of the Iranian Resistance

Arabnews, 20 August 2017 - There is a need for a more firm approach toward the Iranian government and its increasingly aggressive foreign policy.
Tehran is ratcheting up its interference and interventions in Arab countries. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its affiliates are increasing domestic repression as well, according to the latest reports by human rights organizations.
Support for a firm approach against the Iranian political establishment is increasing in the United States. About 30 prominent American luminaries and former officials issued a joint statement expressing bipartisan support for underscoring the need for countering Tehran regime. Among the signatories were former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
It is crucial to point out that the Iranian government has been causing regional instability, engaging in egregious human rights violations and exporting terrorism and extremism abroad. The letter scolds the Iranian regime for committing these acts.
The view that the regime can be reformed has been proved to be inaccurate, simplistic and unsophisticated. Former US presidents made efforts to moderate Iran’s foreign policy through engagement, diplomacy or concessions. Nevertheless, as history reveals, these efforts have failed.
Any astute observer can see that the core revolutionary pillars of Iran’s foreign policy have not altered since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. In fact, Tehran has become more revolutionary, belligerent and aggressive. The high-profile US personalities and former officials also rejected the idea that the regime can be moderated. As they wrote: “The hope of some Western governments was that time would lead to moderation by the Mullahs or to the emergence of a reformist faction that could challenge the dominance of the clerical regime. The reality has been far different. We agree with the apparent new US policy of ending the previous US overture toward the Iranian regime.”
Iranian leaders are increasingly implementing a sectarian agenda in the region to achieve their hegemonic ambitions. As the signatories pointed out concerning Tehran’s malign regional role: “The Iran-fueled sectarian division of Iraq laid the foundation for the creation of Daesh. Iran today commands and funds upwards of 150,000 IRGC, Shia militia and mercenary armed fighters in Iraq and Syria.”
A strongly worded statement from 30 prominent Americans shows that the Iranian people may finally have support for the change they want and deserve.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
Nevertheless, it is worth noting that the ruling clerics of Iran are facing popular domestic discontent. In order to pressure Tehran, the disaffected population and opposition can be a robust tool to capitalize on. The signatories accurately referred to this issue by stating that the “Tehran regime is uniquely vulnerable,” citing chronic economic mismanagement and a fierce power struggle within the regime. “Mounting popular discontent has increasingly become visible in public,” they said, citing growing social calls for accountability for the “mass executions of political opponents, including the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners with a majority of them from the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).”
Altering Iran’s foreign policy can be accomplished through peaceful methods. From the perspective of the prominent American figures, a “viable organization” exists to change the clerical regime. Among other prominent signatories who believe such a mission can be accomplished are former Senator Joseph Lieberman, former National Security Adviser James Jones, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, former UN Ambassador John Bolton, former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former DNC Chairman Edward Rendell, former US Marine Corps Commandant James Conway, and former Congressman Patrick Kennedy.
As they said: “The National Council of Resistance of Iran … has the vision, leadership, and courage to lead the way to the creation of a new Iran. Under the leadership of Maryam Rajavi , a Muslim woman standing for gender equality, which is an antidote to Islamist fundamentalism and extremism, it is working every day to bring about a tolerant, non-nuclear Iranian republic based on separation of religion and state, that will uphold the rights of all.”
Nevertheless, pressure from the US is not adequate to alter the Iranian government’s belligerent behavior and interventions in other countries including Arab nations. More governments and organizations should join the cause. It is the moral responsibility of the international community to embrace the Iranian people’s aspiration for freedom and democracy and to stand against the Iranian government’s suppression and repressions.
In a nutshell, as recognition of the need to counter the Iranian government is mounting in Washington, it is incumbent on world governments and the international community to provide moral support to the Iranian people’s quest for freedom.
• Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a Harvard-educated Iranian-American political scientist. He is a leading expert on Iran and US foreign policy, a businessman, and president of the International American Council. He serves on the boards of the Harvard International Review, the Harvard International Relations Council and the US-Middle East Chamber of Commerce and Business.