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Iranian regime directly meddling in Iraq - Maryam Rajavi |
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Monday, 19 December 2005 |
 NCRI – Addressing Iranian convention in Toronto, Canada, Mrs. Maryam
Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
called for active support of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, the home of thousands
of members of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran, who are standing against
the clerical regime’s export of fundamentalism to Iraq. The full text
of her speech is as follows:
I would like to extend my warmest greetings to you who have gathered in
Toronto today to protest the Iranian regime’s meddling and conspiracies
in Iraq and express your support for the freedom fighters in Ashraf
city.
We all salute the brave political prisoners in the torture center in
Gohardasht in Karaj, Iran, who have been on hunger strike for four
weeks now.
Your gathering and the continuous activities and events by our
compatriots in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and the rest of the
world, demonstrate that your voice is the voice of the Iranian people
for freedom and democracy, and that the hateful voice that is raised to
engulf Islamic countries in the flames of war, to remove borders in
order to form a medieval Caliphate, has nothing to do with the Iranian
people and is not what the Iranian nation aspires to.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei recently carried out a major political
purge within his regime. The contraction of the regime that followed
made the regime more fragile. Since then, the clerical regime has
embarked on a course of increasing belligerence, threatening and
intimidating evermore:
In the nuclear file, the regime has reneged on its agreement with the
EU3 on uranium conversion in Isfahan. It has rejected all proposals and
incentives put forward by Western countries and Russia. It now is
threatening to start uranium enrichment at Natanz.
In Iraq, the regime is engaged in terrorism, kidnappings, repression,
intimidations, and various election frauds. It has also created
numerous torture centers in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities.
In Iran, the clerical dictatorship has stepped up repression, and
vastly increased the number of public hangings and daily arrests.
In the face of the Iranian people’s resistance, the regime has launched
an unprecedented conspiracy against Ashraf city and a vast
disinformation campaign.
The mullahs are not satisfied with all this, and have in recent weeks
opened a new front with demagogic speeches by their president. He
openly agitates for war within Islamic countries and wiping out whole
countries in the world. He calls for a global Islamic empire under the
guise of “Union of Islamic Countries” and advocates erasing national
boundaries and instituting repressive laws in the name of Islam. He
demands that “Islamic faith and covenants” and a “complete Islamic
judicial system” be implemented. He is in effect demanding the
expansion of his reactionary regime’s laws and anti-human judicial
practices to all Islamic countries. All the while he declares his
“hate” for civilized societies and anyone who calls for liberty and
human rights. These provocations and adventurism are part of the
Vali-Faqih’s (supreme leader) aggressive policy to find some way out of
the regime’s crisis of existence and delay its inevitable downfall.
Since 2003 when the whole region entered into a strategic state of flux
with the Iraq war, the regime’s supreme leader knew that time was up on
his maneuvers of moderation and his beguiling tactics in blocking any
real change for 16 years. The event was a watershed and the regime’s
supreme leader was forced to choose his way. Of course, the mullahs did
not have the capacity to choose to go down the road of liberty and
democracy or to accept change and moderation. Therefore, they chose to
aggressively move forward on the road of adventurism and warmongering
and belligerence.
The theocratic regime seeks to keep its balance in the new strategic
environment with a high tempo of aggressive maneuvers and use the
situation to its own advantage in order to hide the underlying weakness
inherent in its regime. The aim of the highly aggressive strategy is to
create an impression that “Iran has an immeasurable capacity for
destabilizing the whole of the Middle East,” as one state-run newspaper
said.
The situation is comparable to the last phase of the unpatriotic war
Khomeini instigated in the 1980s in which he would send thousands of
troops to certain death in lost battles just to show that the regime is
still on an offensive footing. Now as before, any pause in the regime’s
current posturing, let alone any back pedaling, will cause it to lose
its balance and beset it with insurmountable domestic and foreign
crises.
The discovery of numerous torture centers in the center of Baghdad,
sending truckloads of fraudulent ballots from Iran which the New York
Times reported, are only a small part of the regime’s meddling in Iraq,
and are part of the above policy.
The clerical regime in Iran is directly meddling in the elections in
Iraq and supporting and carrying out terrorist acts on a daily basis.
They now direct parts of the intelligence and security apparatus and
control torture centers in Iraq. At the same time they are conducting
espionage against Iraqi democratic forces under cover of educational,
religious, and humanitarian assistance groups.
This very serious situation and the enormous dangers it poses for the
whole region, is the result of major mistakes in the aftermath of the
war. The coalition forces should have blocked interference by the
mullahs in Iraq but instead bombed and disarmed the Iranian Mojahedin
and tipped the strategic balance in this sensitive region of the world.
The coalition initially entered into an understanding with the clerical
regime next door and opened the borders and all doors to their
participation. Rafsanjani described the policy in a speech ten
days ago and said: “All recent events in the region, even the Western
and American intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq have in the end been
to Iran’s benefit.” However, Khamenei cannot hide the underlying
weakness of his regime with such meddling in Iraq or the nuclear
weapons uproar.
Analysts that have visited Tehran recently say “The Iranian regime is
an empty shell, but it is trying to put forth a show of strength by
turning the clock back."
The mullahs know that the ground is shifting under their feet. That is
why they are terrified of the prospects of the Iranian resistance
movement and plot extensively against it.
During the past month, the mullahs invited five top Iraqi officials to
Tehran to consult with them about ways of applying pressure on the
Mojahedin and Ashraf City. The regime is hatching all the conspiracies
that have resulted in the cutoff of food and medical supplies to Ashraf
City. The regime has also started a large campaign to strike a blow at
the Resistance from within and to rid itself of this bastion of Iranian
freedom. Of course, their desperate efforts have been in vain and will
never succeed
Dear Compatriots and Friends of the Resistance,
Events of the past three years have proven a basic fact that
fundamentalism and dictatorship in Iran are obstacles to democracy and
stability in Iraq. The answer lies in a solution to the Iran issue. The
outcome of Iran’s destiny is tied to the outcome of a struggle in which
Ashraf forms the central issue and you and our compatriots inside Iran
and abroad have risen to support Ashraf.
The present retrenchment and purge in the regime is a sign of the
mullahs’ weakness and dead-end that they have run up against. It is
also a sign of the political and organizational growth of the
resistance. It is up to you to neutralize the regime’s conspiracies and
delineate the political battle lines against it.
Double your efforts in support of the resistance in all areas, in
particular for the referral of the Iranian regime’s human rights record
to the UN Security Council. Encourage governments to officially
recognize the Iranian people’s resistance and renounce the
unsubstantiated terror tag. Remember that defeat of the regime’s
conspiracies against the resistance and our present-day development are
only due to your sacrifice and that we can only reach our great goal of
liberty in Iran with such devotions and self-sacrifices.
Rise to the active defense of Ashraf in your struggle to change the
regime of religious dictatorship in Iran. Iran’s bright future will
become a reality with your efforts. The future is yours.
Long Live the Great Iranian Nation
Long Live Freedom
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