NCRI – Parliamentarians in Europe and North America, the American Committee for democracy in the Middle East, Joint chairs of the Friends of a Free Iran at the European Parliament and the Association for Friendship and Solidarity of Iraqi and Iranian people have strongly condemned the Iranian regime’s protest to the Iraqi people’s support for the People’s Mojahedin of Ashraf City in Iraq, calling it a breach of Iraqi people’s right to freedom of speech.
The European lawmakers also exposed lies fabricated by the Iranian regime – saying that the UN Security Council has included the PMOI in its list of terrorist organizations – to pressure the Iraqi Foreign Ministry. They stressed that the long list of Tehran regime’s lies against the Iranian resistance movement only aims at misleading the public opinion against the People’s Mojahedin of Iran. The European Lawmakers stressed that more than 2.8 million Iraqis with their support for the People’s Mojahedin have emphasized that the PMOI is a major obstacle to the Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq.
In their letters to the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, General George Casey, commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, the Iraqi President and Foreign Minister, European lawmakers underlined the fact that the freedom of speech for members of the PMOI in Ashraf is guaranteed under the Geneva 4th convention and the Iranian regime’s reference to the verdict by former Iraqi Governing Council calling for extradition of the PMOI members had no legal basis. Their letter also noted that it was a clear proof that the verdict had been dictated by the mullahs’ regime upon Iraqi government officials at the time.
Over a thousand European and North American lawmakers and hundreds of Euro MPs have repeatedly rejected PMOIs designation as a terror group.
In their letters to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, a number of renowned international jurists emphasized the declaration of May 17, 2003, by the US Central Command in Iraq regarding the PMOI’s status in that country. The declaration states:
"Coalition Forces have consolidated 2,139 tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery pieces, air defense artillery pieces and miscellaneous vehicles formerly in the possession of the Mujahedin-E Khalq (MEK) forces. The voluntary, peaceful resolution of the process by the MEK and the Coalition significantly contributes to the Coalition’s mission to establish a safe and secure environment for the people of Iraq."
In a statement by the Association for Friendship and Solidarity Among Iraqi and Iranian peoples it wrote that Iranian regime has a clear and obvious role in meddling in Iraq’s internal affairs and the major aspect of this interference is to ignore the Iraqi democracy and the people’s right.
