If you stand with the Iranian people as they stand for liberty, then end the terrorist designation of their Resistance movement. This is a resistance with 120,000 martyrs lost to the cause of freedom.
Do not deprive the world of the most effective counterweight to fundamentalism and terrorism.
Part 4 of the text of speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of resistance of Iran (NCRI) in the gathering of more than 70,000 Iranian exiles in Paris on June 28, 2008:
If you stand with the Iranian people as they stand for liberty, then end the terrorist designation of their Resistance movement. This is a resistance with 120,000 martyrs lost to the cause of freedom.
Do not deprive the world of the most effective counterweight to fundamentalism and terrorism.
Part 4 of the text of speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of resistance of Iran (NCRI) in the gathering of more than 70,000 Iranian exiles in Paris on June 28, 2008:
Let’s turn to the United States of America now. It is common knowledge that from day one the inclusion of the PMOI [the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)] on the State Department's blacklist was a concession to Khatami and his entourage.
That day, on October 8, 1997, a senior U.S. government official said, "The inclusion was a goodwill gesture to the newly-elected Iranian president Mohammad Khatami."
They expected that offering ransom and sending goodwill gestures to those who massacred political prisoners would moderate the velayat-e faqih regime. They contended that a viper will give birth to a dove. But that viper gave birth to Ahmadinejad.
Isn’t a show of goodwill towards the mullahs and religious fascism in Iran ultimately a show of ill-will towards the people in Iran, the Middle East and democratic forces in this part of the world?
I must therefore ask, after all this experience, why are you still pursuing the legacy of giving in to the mullahs' blackmail?
After the terrorist designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Qods Force, why should the demands of the mullahs to designate the PMOI [MEK] continue to be met?
Why should the mullahs and their agents in Iraq be allowed to continue the intolerable restrictions placed on the “protected persons” in Ashraf City?
Earlier this month, three million Iraqi Shiites demanded the expulsion of the Iranian regime and its operatives from Iraq and the removal of the restrictions imposed on the PMOI[MEK].
A majority in the U.S. Congress have voiced support for the PMOI [MEK] and the NCRI on five different occasions and described it as the only solution to fundamentalism. On the other hand, you bomb the PMOI [MEK] camps in Iraq under the pretext of the terrorist label.
A 16-month investigation by nine different agencies of the U.S. Government into the status of the PMOI [MEK] confirmed that there was no basis to charge any member of this movement with terrorism.
If you stand with the Iranian people as they stand for liberty, then end the terrorist designation of their Resistance movement. This is a resistance with 120,000 martyrs lost to the cause of freedom.
Do not deprive the world of the most effective counterweight to fundamentalism and terrorism.
The third president of the United States, and author of the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, eloquently described the state of oppressed people. It could well be a description of the Iranian people and Resistance today. He said, "When patience has begotten false estimates of its motives, when wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality."
And I quote the Declaration of Independence, "Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government."
Today, many American thinkers, parliamentarians and personalities acknowledge that the policy of rapprochement with the mullahs' regime has been quite harmful to U.S. national security.
Of course, we have always said: "Go ahead and negotiate with the mullahs as much as you want."
Today, there are many in the U.S. and Europe who have recognized that investing in dialogue with the mullahs' regime is a waste of time, as if one were to cook a piece of rock.
I must remind you that the Iranian Resistance has never asked the U.S. or any other country to send their men and women to war in order to confront the mullahs.
We only ask that you remove the shackles of your terrorist list from the hands and feet of the Iranian people.
We are telling you:
After marching down a long path riddled with errors, in search for moderation and ways of changing the behavior of the velayat-e faqih dictatorship, the time has come for you to stand on the side of history. Stand on the side which heralds freedom for the people of Iran.
Look at the experience of the UK government: If resistance and sacrifice for freedom against religious fascism is righteous and just, if this is the course of history, two important lessons of this experience must be learned.
The first is that designating just resistance to dictatorship and religious fascism that pays no heed to the people's will and opposes free elections is not a source of honor. It only brings shame.
The second is that the force of justice and good conscience, and those who advocate it, will ultimately triumph. Indeed, freedom is within reach, and we will ultimately achieve the goal of freedom.
End of Part 4 of 9
