Maryam Rajavi website, October 31, 2013

Mr. President,
Honorable parliamentarians,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dear friends,

I want to thank the Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran, which gives us the opportunity to meet at the National Assembly.
In fact, we met here last February that was like today on the eve of another nuclear negotiation. I mentioned the crisis facing the regime, the deadlock in talks on nuclear program, the war in Syria, infightings and the threat the regime feeling from the organized opposition which prompts attacks against Camp Liberty in Iraq. I then declared that the regime has entered its final phase and recent developments endorse my assertion.
If the regime abandons its nuclear weapons program, its meddling in Syria and Iraq, and the cruel repression in Iran, then we would be the first to welcome it. But the regime has taken the opposite path, and even Rouhani’s moderate pretence will not save the regime. Rouhani was not the favorite candidate of the Supreme Leader of the regime. Khamenei had to concede to this mullah. He endorsed him because he was afraid that events of 2009 might be repeated. Since then, the regime has been getting weaker by this division.

On the economy front, inflation is at 50 %. According to the Minister of Economy, in October growth dropped to – 6 % and unemployment is at 30%. This is the result of a corrupt and fundamentalist regime, which destroyed the Iranian economy by spending hundreds of billions of dollars on nuclear and military projects, repression and export of terrorism.

The regime intends to reduce pressure caused by international sanctions, which have aggravated its crises, without renouncing the nuclear bomb. Despite superficial postures, Geneva talks showed that there has been no change in substance. Khamenei wants to use Rouhani’s deceitful postures to advance his strategy.
The fact is that, it was Rouhani who deceived the European Troika in 2003 to allow the regime to complete part of its nuclear program. There are no signs to prove that this mullah has changed his strategy.
By refusing to halt uranium enrichment and deferring decision on the additional protocol to an uncertain time in future, it is quite obvious that the regime aims to buy time and test the international community.
In the upcoming negotiations in November, the world must know that without firmness against deceitful mullahs, however feeble, there can be no achievement.
In such circumstances, the assault on Camp Ashraf and the slaughter of 52 unarmed PMOI members is a display of mullahs’ ruthlessness and that of its protégé Maliki. However, this incident demonstrated that before all else at issue in Iran is this regime’s enmity with the Iranian people and their resistance.
The massive crime committed in Ashraf and attack on defenseless people who are protected under international conventions betray the regime’s fear of the organized resistance that has refused to surrender. A resistance that seeks a pluralist and democratic republic based on separation of church and state and gender equality.
On September 1st attack, all the evidence we have, including statements by officials, documents and video clips, vividly show that government of Iraq had carried out this butchery in Ashraf upon mullahs’ orders and that this government is responsible for the abduction of seven members of the resistance, six of whom are women.
As far as Ashraf and Liberty are concerned, the main responsibility unmistakably lies with the United States and United Nations who met their obligations and their written and repeated commitments concerning safety and security of PMOI/MeK members.
Residents of Ashraf moved to Camp Liberty prison based on a promise by the U.S. and UN that they would be fully protected and expeditiously transferred to third countries. They are now facing lethal rocket attacks in there. So far 112 of them have been killed, 15 have lost their lives due to medical restrictions with another 1200 injured.
Despite residents’ full cooperation with the United Nations, less than 10% have been moved out of Iraq.
Therefore, Liberty’s protection is a pressing imperative. To those countries that overlook this imperative while they have not admitted even one person from Camp Liberty; not even someone who is wounded or ill, we say: Put an end to your indifference.
As far as EU member states and in particular France are concerned, given France’s extensive international efficacy, it could have played an effective role in compelling Iraq to fulfill its commitments as well as getting the Security Council engaged in this deeply humanitarian matter, but EU member states have taken no effective step to free the seven hostages. It is now 60 days that hundreds of people in Camp Liberty, and in Geneva, London, Berlin, Ottawa and Melbourne are on hunger strike. I am deeply worried about their health.
While the U.S., EU and UN know all too well as to who is holding the hostages, receiving Maliki in the White House in the next few days will bring no honor to the U.S. President. But, now that United States insists of shaking hands with a criminal, I call on President Obama to immediately ask Maliki to release the hostages unconditionally and stop stonewalling provision of security measures for Camp Liberty. Turning down this request will be considered as tantamount to collaboration.
Together with countless parliamentarians worldwide, we call on the U.S., Europe and UN to: halt economic support and sale of weapons to Iraq until this government has released the hostages and a monitoring team and UN Blue Helmets are permanently deployed in Camp Liberty.

Dear parliamentarians and friends,
Since Rouhani has come to power, the number of executions has passed 270. Last Saturday, in a heinous killing, sixteen political prisoners were hanged in an act of revenge. It is absolutely crucial for this regime to balance its postures of moderation in the international arena by massacres at home and in Ashraf because it is terrified of a popular uprising.
At the same time, mullahs’ lobbies in France try to embellish regime’s criminal image. They entice by promising insecure contracts with a bankrupt regime. I believe that they think decision-makers in this country are gullible. A country with prominent figures such as General De Gaulle, Jean Moulin and Francois Mitterrand is surely capable of leading an international strategy that respects universal values. I believe President Hollande’s initiative in Mali was of this sort.
This religious dictatorship will only back down in face of a firm policy and not through a policy of appeasement that only emboldens tyrants. Now that we are witnessing hesitation in Washington to deal with atrocities in Syria, massacre in Ashraf, Iraq, and killings in Iran,
France can play its historic role.
Parliamentarians can encourage France in this respect and lead a firm policy against the religious tyranny in Iran and in the region and stand with people who yearn for ridding themselves of fundamentalism.
Thank you.