Foreign Minster Giulio Terzi: Madam President elect, dear friends, I have the pleasure to introduce tonight first of all a very distinguished and important delegation from the Italian Parliament, Italian CPs, Italian organizations, All friends that you have in Italy and are fighting your goals for freedom and human rights in Iran.

They posses the participations in this grand meeting of hundreds of Iranian association from all over the world proves the depth and the intensity of a struggle, a struggle for democracy against dictatorship, a struggle for humanity and dignity against state of soletism and contempt of its own citizens, a struggle for pluralism and freedom against ethnic and religious discrimination, a struggle for a free Iran against an obscurantist and oppressive Iran. The vision of a future Iran enshrined in the ten point plan launched last year by President Rajavi, should attract unconditional support by the whole international community and we have to work all together in that direction, the direction shown by President Rajavi.
Sysytematic violation of fundamental rights in Iran is a matter of gravest concern, and not only for the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Last April the European parliament passed the resolution calling the European Union to mainstream human rights in all of its relations with the country. Negotiations on the nuclear program should not deflect our priorities from the need to restore the freedom and democracy. It has been wisely proposed that sanctions should only believe that when international obligations concerning human rights are fully implemented. Abuses of human right can not bee condoned in any possible way. It is extremely alarming that the first year of president Rouhani leaves no hope for moderation. According to the UN Secretary-General report to the Human Rights Council last march, the promises made by the new leadership have dramatically failed. Over 700 inmates been executed since Rouhani’s election and the shocking death of Gholamreza Khosravi, one of your martyrs, one of your best people hanged by the theocratic regime after 12 years of tortures is a horrible crime. We must call it as such, horrible crime and the such every political motivated execution should be considered by governments like the European once which place human rights at the center of their foreign relation. Long live the memory of those who have given their lives for freedom, of those who have suffered in jail, of those who have been resilient under arrest and torture. Their shining examples strengthen our resolve.
The UN report for Human Rights Council has underlined concern for continues infringement of international norms, for occupations, floggings, arbitrated detention, intimidation of political activist and journalist and the UN’s Special Representative has been left waiting outside the Iranian door for more than three years. This is unacceptable. Freedom of religion and belief has to be singled out as a specially worries and aspect. Severe restrictions, attacks and releases groups, politically motivated incriminations for crimes against God are some of the main tools the theocratic regime more and more frequently uses to the deter opponents, to terrify citizens, to consolidate its power. Faith ig God can never justify violence or crime committed under the banner of religion. And as a prominent Islamic leader said recently and decode “the cure for a failed democracy is only more democracy. A dictatorship disguised the religion is the worst kind of dictatorship”. What happened and still is happening in Iran, Iraq and Syria is exactly the opposite. The international community is still unable to find a solution for the Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf and Liberty, the protected person by the UN and the US. An unprecedented number of executions and massacres, the most tragic last September the first has occurred with the obvious complicity of the Iraqi authorities. 7 kidnapped PMOIs, your brothers and sisters; seven of them are still missing. Iran has requested the extradition of all residents in Camp Liberty and General Shemeri is misleading any independent inquiry. All this must stop but from the news that we are getting from the field perhaps is stopping already and justice is closer and people who have been responsible can be brought to justice in the future, I hope, very, very soon.
Developments in Iraq are dramatically effected in the entire region. They make to protect and rescue all the residents in Camp Liberty more evident and urgent than ever before. These residents must be given refugees status in our countries and in European countries. The UN, the US, the EU bare legal and moral responsibilities, but the PMOI seem to be ignored in all talks and negotiations taking place with the regard to the unleashed ISIS thread against the Iraqi government. The Iraqi government’s attitude towards PMOI is and must remain the first credible test. Prime Minister Maliki is not really committed to and inclusive democratic Iraq, respectful of human rights of religious and political minorities. He has already stated the contrary. Al-Maliki has never spent time on political reconciliation, even during the 2007 military surge and I listened to great attention to what General Casey said just a few minutes ago. Al- Maliki does not spend any time now in addressing fundamental issues with Sunni and Kurd leaders. He only wants to please and serve Iran. The President of United States has made clear that the US would not provide military support unless Maliki engineers a drastic change reaching out to Sunnis and Kurds in a show of national unity. That requires a newly found independence from Iran whose expansionist policies and military interference both in Syria and Iraq are backfiring now into a generalized, sectarian struggle.
Dear friends, the enormous energy of this gathering shows that the Council of National Resistance of Iran is ready to meet these deep challenges faced in Iraq and Iran. Only the freedom you are advocating will change Iran and the whole region.