The Univers News, Paris,  June 23, 2012 – The president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI opposition group in exile) Maryam Rajavi said that “the Iranian spring is still alive” and the explosive situation, despite the suppression of the “Mullah regime”, in an interview with a news agency.
“The situation is explosive in Iranian society, the public wants change, the current regime has no future but Iran is facing an unimaginable repression,” said Mrs. Rajavi, President-elect of the NCRI, including the Mojahedin people are the main component.
“The clerical regime has learned from what happened in Libya and Syria to avoid being in the situation of Qaddafi or Assad, he decided to accelerate the achievement of its nuclear program and eliminate the Mujahedeen of the people who represent a democratic alternative, “she says.
“But people are willing to use the least breach to change the situation, including the presidential election next year. 2013 will be a significant turning point where anything can happen. The social situation is ripe and the Iranian resistance has broken chains that stood in his way, “says she.
Mrs. Rajavi refers to a decision of the Court of Appeals of Washington, which gave 1 June four months at the State Department to review the status of the Mujahedeen of the people listed on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations since 1997, failing what she would grant the withdrawal of this list.
“This is a great victory! This verdict breaks with many years of demonization. This will unlock the potential energy of the movement inside Iran and increase its activities outside”, welcomed Maryam Rajavi.
“The withdrawal of the U.S. list should also allow the release of the situation in Ashraf”, allowing the reception of residents in countries or europens United States, she hopes.
Camp Ashraf, 80km north of Baghdad, built in the 1980s and has housed more than 3,000 residents opposed to the Iranian regime, had been allocated by former President Saddam Hussein to the People’s Mujahedeen to get them to fight with him the Iranian regime.
These opponents were disarmed in 2003 by U.S. forces in the fall of Saddam Hussein. Negotiations between the UN and WIPO Baghdad led to an early transfer of Ashraf residents to Camp Liberty, outside Baghdad, but it was interrupted and 1,300 people remain in Ashraf .
“It was intended from the outset that Liberty would be a transit camp and its residents would be resettled in other countries, but after four months, not one has been, that’s why we say that the plan relocation failed, “ruled Maryam Rajavi.
“The Iraqi government has violated all its commitments: the camp does not have the minimum humanitarian, human rights are not respected, there are problems of water, electricity, hygiene,” complains- she said.
While the NCRI organized Saturday in Villepinte, near Paris, a European event, Maryam Rajavi ensures want to “continue the fight to overthrow the clerical regime, for the separation of religion and state, for the establishment of democracy and equality of men and women. ”
Tens of thousands who came by bus from all over Europe – more than 100,000 according to organizers – attended the rally as every year since 2003.
According to a statement, they denounced “the transformation in Prison Camp Liberty” and “asked the UN, the U.S. and the EU to prevent the tragedy that prepares the Iraqi government at the behest of the Mullahs to Ashraf and Liberty “.
The former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations Bill Richardson (Democrat) and John Bolton (Conservative), the former French Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy and French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, in particular, as well as parliamentary delegations from 40 European and Arab countries, had responded to the invitation of the NCRI, according to a representative in France Afshin Alavi.