Iranians and supporters of the Iranian resistance staged a rally in front of the White House simultaneous with the meeting of representatives of 5+1 countries in Washington D.C. to coordinate their diplomatic efforts at the Security Council on February 28.

Chanting “No Talks with Mullahs; Impose Sanctions on Mullahs Now; Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, Rafsanjani Must Go,” the participants called for immediate military, technological, diplomatic, and oil sanctions on the regime in Iran. They carried banners calling for full comprehensive sanction against Iranian regime and the emblem of PMOI and Iranian flag with lion and sun.

They praised the stance by NCRI’s President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, who has called on the international community to “prevent the mullahs’ regime from acquiring the bomb.” In a statement Mrs. Rajavi warned that “the inhumane and anti-Iranian regime was trying to obtain nuclear bomb in order to guarantee its survival…to cover up the increasing domestic crisis on one hand and their growing international isolation on the other.”

The participants in the rally declared that sanctioning the mullahs’ financial and military networks to deprive them from using Iran’s wealth and natural resources to fund terrorism and develop nuclear weapons, are in line with the Iranian people’s highest national interests. The rally supported Mrs. Rajavi’s statement that “the mullahs’ regime had brought nothing but suppression and poverty to the Iranian people. All its projects including the nuclear one and export of fundamentalism and terrorism had cost Iranians billions of dollars.”