Rajavi, on the eve of Geneva II Conference: Evicting the
Iranian regime from Syria is the only solution for ending the rule of the
murderous tyranny in that country
Maryam Rajavi called on the French Senate, people and
government to support Iranian people in their struggle for freedom
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Declaration
by Senators for protection of Camp Liberty residents and for an independent
inquiry into the Ashraf massacre
On Tuesday, January 21, in a meeting in the French Senate at Luxembourg
Palace, a number of French Senators from all political inclinations of the
country noted the worrisome condition of human rights in Iran and the Iranian
regime’s troublesome role in the crises of countries of the region,
particularly in Syria and Iraq, and called for adoption of an effective and
serious policy vis-à-vis Iran. Through a statement, they also emphasized the
imperative to protect members of the Iranian opposition who have been targeted
in the past year with massacres and deadly attacks in Iraq and urged their
government to use its influence at the UN Security Council to guarantee
protective provisions for Camp Liberty residents and to bring pressure to bear
on government of Iraq to clarify the fate of the seven residents abducted
during the September 1 massacre of Ashraf.
Statement by French Senators that was announced by Senator Jean-Pierre
Michel calls on the French government to request an independent, comprehensive
and transparent probe by international experts into the September 1 raid on
Iranian refugees stationed in Camp Ashraf at the upcoming conference of the
Human Rights Council in March.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, was the key
speaker in this meeting who was there at the invitation of the French Committee
for a Democratic Iran (CFID) on the eve of Geneva II conference. Rajavi
described mullahs’ regime extensive interference in Syria as the principal
problem of that country. She stated: “Evicting the Iranian regime from Syria is
the only solution for ending the rule of the murderous tyranny in that
country.”
In this meeting in presence of Ms. Bariza Khiari, Senate
Vice-President, a number of Senators and representative and distinguished
French politicians spoke including Senators
Alain Néri, Bernard Fournier; Brigitte Allain, member of
parliament; Ms. Edite Cresson, former Prime Minister; Alain Vivien, former
minister; Frédéric Encel, scholar and university professor; Pierre Bercis,
president of the New Human Rights Association; Raymond Tanter, former member of
the U.S. National Security Council; and Régine Deforges, writer
In another part of
her speech, Maryam Rajavi pointed to the implementation of the interim
agreement between P5+1 and the regime and underlined: “The approach by the U.S.
and the West during the Geneva talks and in the November 24 nuclear accord
suffers from the appeasement attribute, though France’s intervention helped
correct it somewhat.
“The implementation of the accord began yesterday. This means that the
mullahs, pressured by popular discontent and internal crises, have retreated
one step. Had the West shown decisiveness, the mullahs’ nuclear program would
have been dismantled at this very stage; but there’s still time.”
Rajavi underscored: “Western governments must compel the regime to accept
and fully implement the additional protocol and agree to snap inspections. They
must compel the mullahs to shut down their nuclear sites completely and comply
with the Security Council resolutions.”
President-elect of the Iranian Resistance called West’s policy towards the
resistance movement that holds the key to change in Iran as flawed and said:
“In the past two decades, the West sacrificed human rights, freedom and the
resistance of the Iranian people at the altar of its dealings with the
mullahs.” She alluded to the disclosures by the Iranian Resistance and its
repeated warnings in the past two decades regarding the threat of mullahs’
regime for the region that spreads fundamentalism and said, “Regrettably, with
their erroneous policies, Western governments ignored those warnings.”
Rajavi criticized the silence and inaction of U.S. and EU member states
regarding repeated massacre of Iranian dissidents in camps Ashraf and Liberty
in Iraq in the recent years.
She described the situation of refugees in Camp Liberty as grave and
stated: “Mullahs and their puppet government in Iraq are planning to exploit
the crisis in Iraq and carry out a major massacre at Camp Liberty and blame it
on Al-Qaeda.” She called on the French government to take this case to the
Security Council of the United Nations to ensure the protection of the
residents of Liberty until their transfer to the Unites States or Europe and to
use its position at the Security Council and the European Union, as well as its
influence with Iraq to secure the release of the seven Ashraf hostages who are
detained by the Iraqi government, immediately transfer asylum-seekers in Camp
Liberty to European countries and U.S., provide imperative security equipment
to Camp Liberty, deploy UN observers along with a unit of Blue Helmets inside
Camp Liberty on a round the clock basis, conduct an independent and full
investigation into the Ashraf massacre by United Nations, and sale of the
property in Ashraf by residents lawful representative to shoulder the expenses
of resettlement.
