NCRI - During a meeting at the United States Congress, 500 Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian religious leaders from 40 states announced their support for the right to political asylum in Iraq of the members of the People's Mojahedin of Iran, the main opposition group to the Tehran regime. This meeting was part of a three-day symposium at the Congress on the situation in Iraq and the disastrous meddling of the Iranian regime.

The symposium, initiated by House Representatives, aimed at voicing support for the Iranian people and their resistance against the religious dictatorship.

We have to act carefully against the meddling of Islamic fundamentalism ruled by Tehran's regime, Reverend John Gibbs from Houston, Texas, said, adding that this regime seeks to set up an Islamic fundamentalist empire in the near future. Reverend Gibbs then said that he supported the third option proposed by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, which rejects any foreign military intervention as well as the appeasement policy to solve the Iranian crisis, and which calls for democratic change by the Iranian people and their legitimate Resistance.

Professor Daniel Zucker, chairman of the Americans for Democracy in the Middle-East (ADME), was next to take the floor on behalf of the American rabbis who had signed the declaration. He stressed the dangers represented by the Iranian regime and the importance of the role of the People's Mojahedin in the establishment of democracy in Iraq and stability in the region. By using its agents in a weakened Iraqi government, the Iranian regime seeks to put pressure on the 3,800 members of the People's Mojahedin based in Ashraf City. These people enjoy refugee status under the Geneva Conventions and have been considered as political refugees in Iraq for twenty years, he said.

He also underlined that the PMOI in Ashraf City had large support from the Iraqi population. 5.2 million Iraqis think that with a regime change in Iran, it would be possible to establish democracy in Iraq, he said.