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Iran regime's meddling in Iraq's elections unveiled in London conference |
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
 In a conference on Thursday in London’s Westminster Hall, Hossein
Abedini, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran revealed the Iranian regime’s plots to rig ballots
in Iraqi elections. This includes the preparation of tens of thousands
of pre-completed ballots in ballot boxes to be substituted for cast
votes. The clerical regime had also disptched tens of thousands of
Iranians to Iraq to vote using false identification documents.
Information obtained by the Iranian Resistance revealed that based on
substantial financial support from the Iranian regime, the alliance
consisting of the groups affiliated with the theocratic regime, had
launched an extensive election campaign in various provinces. The
member groups in the alliance employed many staff and set up employment
centers in some provinces recruiting tribesmen to support the United
Iraqi Alliance, for money.
The clerical regime and its agents also infiltrated the Iraqi Electoral
Commission and took control of 70% of the executive positions in IEC.
The groups affiliated to Iran ousted the employees in the polling
stations and replaced them with the people related to the affiliated
groups. In one such case, on November 26, they expelled employees of
the polling stations in Al-Diwanieh.
Members of British Parliament from both Houses and all three major
parties addressed the conference where they unanimously called upon the
British Government to abandon the current policy towards Iran and stand
firm against mullahs’ expansionist rulers.
Andrew Mackinlay, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House
of Commons underlined the support of 279 MPs and 126 Peers to the
Iranian Resistance who issued a statement on December 13 calling for
the removal of the terror label from Iran’s main opposition, the
People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran.
In a special video message to the conference, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the
President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
reiterated that the threat of Iran’s expansion of terrorism and
fundamentalism to Iraq was greater than the nuclear threat of the
regime.
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that the current catastrophic situation in Iraq
which is also a threat to global peace and security, as a result of
years of appeasement of the clerical regime. To counter this situation
she called for three steps to be taken: Curtailing the Iranian regimes
meddling in Iraq, preventing Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons and
removing the PMOI from the list of terrorist organizations.
Other distinguished speakers in the conference included, Lord Clarke of
Hampstead, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Taverne, QC, Stephen McCabe, MP,
Ayatollah Jalal Ganjei, Chair of the religious committee of the NCRI,
Edward Grieves, jurist, Elizabeth Sidney, President of the
International Federation of Women Against Fundamentalism and for
Equality, Wilfred Wong, Parliamentary Officer of the Jubilee Campaign
and Kerry Pollard, former Labor MP.
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