121 political parties and social groups, 700,000 women, 14,000 lawyers and jurists, 19,000 physicians, 35,000 engineers, 320 clerics, 540 professors, 2,000 tribal sheikhs and 300 local officials among 5.2 million signitaries of the declaration

NCRI - Solidarity Congress of Iraqi People announced the support of 5.2 million Iraqi's to a declaration condemning Iranian regime's meddling in their country. The declaration also lends support to People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran whose presence in Iraq has acted as a major obstacle to mullahs' fundamentalist ambitions in Iraq. The announcement was made before a huge crowd of Iraqis in Ashraf City on June 17:

Declaration by 5.2 million Iraqis

Iraq was driven to the verge of precipice in 2005 by the Iranian regime. The people of Iraq have run out of patience with this regime's meddling, hidden war and undeclared occupation. The Iranian regime's spokesmen have declared loud and clear that security, life and democracy have been violated in our homeland. Destruction of the holy shrines of Imam Hadi and Imam Hassan Askari and the subsequent premeditated attacks on mosques; killing of preachers and worshipers; mass murders; assassination of nationalist personalities and the elite of Iraqi society; an incessant wave of arbitrary arrests and countless cases of kidnapping; discovery of secret prisons and torture chambers run by the Ministry of Interior especially in Jadiriya where agents of Iran's ruling regime interrogated and tortured Iraqis are a few examples of incidents that shocked the world.

It is common knowledge that the Iranian regime has astonishingly infiltrated Iraq's ministries, security agencies and public service institutes. Iran's rulers want to dominate this part of the world and have turned Iraq into a hunting ground and the frontline of their war with the international community in a bid to curb the struggle for democracy against dictatorship in this country before it reaches Iran. 
The Iranian regime's leaders have repeatedly declared that they have been the first winners of the war in Iraq. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, "God placed the fruit of the occupation of both our neighboring countries (Iraq and Afghanistan) on Iran's lap." He concluded, "We must be prepared to run the world." (January 5, 2006)
After the elections in Iraq, Iran's Interior Minister announced, "From the ballot boxes in Baghdad and Iraqi provinces, one can hear the slogans of the Muslim people of Iran." He said, "This major historic phenomenon attests to the realization" of Khomeini's motto "of conquering Qods (Jerusalem) via Karbala." (Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, December 22, 2005)
As Iran's rulers acknowledge, nuclear weapons are the strategic guarantee for their survival. Do they not also underscore designs to separate the oil-rich southern territory in Iraq?

As a result:
The Iranian regime prevents the establishment of security, stability and democracy in Iraq and poses an immediate threat to our country's integrity and liberty. It is the main obstacle to our independence and the quick departure of the Multi-National Force.
Presently, the main dispute is between democracy and dictatorship. The first and most important political alignment in Iraq is between democratic and patriotic forces with their various inclinations and thoughts on the one hand and affiliates of the Iranian regime on the other.

During the elections and formation of the new government of Iraq, an Iraqi alternative was formed against the option presented by Iran's ruling mullahs, thus providing an encouraging prospect for the country.
In this geopolitical situation and in this juncture of history, democracy in Iraq and democracy in Iran are interdependent, guaranteeing each other's survival.

The solution and the only encouraging prospect for neutralizing these threats come through eviction of the Iranian regime from Iraq and recognition of the status of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran which is the principle bulwark against the Iranian regime's interventions. Similarly, the PMOI's disarmament upset the strategic balance in this sensitive region of the world in favor of the Iranian regime.

In April 2005, in the face of the Iranian regime's threats, 2.8 million Iraqis declared that they found the PMOI as their strategic ally in achieving security, peace and democracy and in encouraging their participation in the elections and political process. It is impossible to overlook the admirable role and impact of the PMOI in this regard. Providing information and building a bulwark against the Iranian regime's meddling in Iraq on the one hand and international exposure of its nuclear programs on the other had a powerful impact.

The Iranian regime, however, launched an astounding demonizing and disinformation campaign against the PMOI. Iran's agents in the Interior Ministry kidnapped PMOI members while others discontinued the government's allocation of food rations, medicine and fuel for residents of Ashraf City contrary to all Islamic and Iraqi traditions. Through the Iraqi National Security Advisor, the government announced that the PMOI "may not even use their allocation of food." (November 18, 2005)

The Iranian regime's fingerprints are evident in paragraph C of Article 21 of the Constitution. Contrary to all international laws on asylum, this paragraph disentitles the accused of the right to asylum merely based on the unverified charge of terrorism.

Repeated calls by the Iranian regime and its operatives in Iraq for retribution of the PMOI and confiscation of their property (ex. Asshahed weekly, April 4, 2005), the Iranian embassy's advertisements in the Iraqi press demanding "retribution of members of this organization as a more important opening for democracy in Iraq", setting their "prosecution" or at least "expulsion" as a "test" for the government of Iraq (Badr weekly, September 5 and November 27, 2005) and urging their referral to the "Criminal Court" (Asshahed weekly, January 15, 2006) are the most obvious signs of collusion with the Iranian regime.

Having investigated the PMOI's 20-year-residence in Iraq and stressing their readiness to defend the rights of the PMOI in any court of law, over 12,000 Iraqi jurists declared in January 2006, "The PMOI has never interfered in Iraq's internal affairs and the claim that the organization participated in the suppression of the Kurds or Shiites is a sheer lie fabricated by the Iranian regime to tarnish the image of its opposition and alternative."

Thousands of Iraqi Kurdish citizens as well as a number of their political leaders and groups have written letters and affidavits to international authorities, refuting these allegations.

An Iraqi Shiite party wrote to EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, "Members of the PMOI are all patriots fighting against the government imposed on Iran and striving for the interests of their country. Some hirelings claim that the PMOI was involved in the suppression of the 1991 uprising (in Iraq). This organization did not have any role against us; on the contrary, they are our brothers and we are their brothers, too. The PMOI only think of the interests of their country and defense of freedom. We are prepared to shed light on the facts and testify wherever you wish."

Prominent leaders of a number of political and parliamentary factions of Iraq have also testified in letters to international authorities. Among others, they wrote, "The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran came to Iraq in 1986 with the aim of establishing democracy in their homeland, Iran. They have had absolutely no role in the internal affairs of Iraq and no one among the people of Iraq, including Sunnis, Shiites, Arabs, Kurds, etc. have ever experienced anything except decency and compassion from them. The solidarity of various social strata of the people of Iraq with this organization best attests to this truth."

We, Iraqi signatories of this declaration, salute the 120,000 martyrs to the cause of freedom in Iran and declare our support for the democratic opposition led by Mr. Massoud Rajavi who struggles for freedom, peace and fraternity in Iran. As Mrs.. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, has announced, the Iranian problem cannot be solved by appeasement or military invasion but by giving support to the Iranian people's Resistance movement.

Mindful of,
52 condemnations of Iran's oppressive regime in various United Nations bodies for its flagrant abuses of human rights;
the international community's acknowledgment that the Iranian regime is "the leading state-sponsor of terrorism" and "the central banker of terrorism" and "immersed in terrorist activities";

Recalling,
10 legal opinions drafted by some of the world's most prominent jurists on the status of the PMOI as a legitimate resistance movement;
declarations by 6,500 European jurists who rejected the terror tag against the PMOI, announcing that the designation was not the product of a judicial process but a violation of international laws;
an international protest movement including the calls made by members of the United States Congress as well as parliamentary resolutions and declarations issued in Europe, Australia and Canada urging revoking this unfair designation;

Considering:
this terrorist designation symbolizes the ill-fated experience of appeasing the Iranian regime, justifying its domestic suppression and seriously facilitating its meddling in Iraq;
continuation of the designation and its consequences for an organization that has alerted the international community to the Iranian regime's nuclear threat reinforce the most active state sponsor of terrorism and deprive the world of its most effective means of neutralizing the threats posed by this regime;

Noting:
acknowledgment of the PMOI's legal and political status in Iraq plays a significant role in foiling the above threats, expanding democracy to Iran and propagating tolerant Islam in this part of the world;
in July 2005, the Iraqi Prime Minister as well as the ministers of defense and foreign affairs acknowledged the PMOI's right to asylum in Iraq;
over 1,000,000 citizens of Iraq along with 4,500 lawyers and jurists as well as 66 parties and political and social associations called for modification of article 21C of the draft constitution;
a number of the most prominent international experts of law have reiterated that "As Iraq goes through the challenges of democratization, one of the key indicators for the world community will be the way the new Iraqi state will treat political refugees and asylum seekers."

We urge:
Agreement of the government of Iraq with the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and the coalition of National Council of Resistance of Iran on a worthwhile legal and political status for them in Iraq;
Acknowledgment of PMOI members' right to political asylum in Iraq and ensuring respect for their right to own their places and properties;
Modification of article 21C of the Constitution in the course of reviewing this clause, so that the Iranian regime would not be able to manipulate it against its opposition;
Commitment of the government of Iraq to international laws, conventions and agreements on the status of the PMOI in Iraq, particularly with regards to the principle of "non-refoulement" in relocating people from one country to another as verified by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) in the case of the PMOI;
Coordinated measures by the government of Iraq and the MNF-I to secure the release of the two abducted PMOI members.

We declare:
The terrorist designation of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, 120,000 of whose members and sympathizers have been murdered by the Iranian regime and is the prime victim of state-sponsored terrorism, is neither legitimate nor credible and should not be regarded as a basis for relations with this organization.

Board of Directors of the Solidarity Congress
Chair, Dr. Abdullah Hassan Al-Jabouri; First Deputy Chair, Shiekh Kamel Omran Attiyya; Second Deputy Chair, Karima Dawoud Al-Jawari
Association of Friendship and Solidarity with the People of Iran; National Association of Struggle Against Fundamentalism and Terrorism; Association of Independent Jurists; National Dialogue Front of Iraq-Diyala; National Front of Tribes of Iraq; National Unity Front for a Free Iraq; Christian Democratic Movement; Islamic Party of Iraq; Peace Party; Iraq's Council for National Dialogue; Congress of Natives of Iraq; Nationalist Elite of Independent Iraq.