NCRI – "Next, and very soon, we expect our government to fulfill its legal and moral obligation to ask the European Union to remove the copycat ban on the Resistance imposed at the UK’s request. And, the Americans then would be wise to do the same since the Resistance is on the side of freedom and not the enemy of freedom," Lord Robin Corbett, Chairman of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom told a gathering of more than 70,000 Iranians in Paris on June 28, 2008.
Text of his speech follows:
NCRI – "Next, and very soon, we expect our government to fulfill its legal and moral obligation to ask the European Union to remove the copycat ban on the Resistance imposed at the UK’s request. And, the Americans then would be wise to do the same since the Resistance is on the side of freedom and not the enemy of freedom," Lord Robin Corbett, Chairman of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom told a gathering of more than 70,000 Iranians in Paris on June 28, 2008.
Text of his speech follows:
It gives me great pride to lead the Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom. I want to share the victory we have had in our Parliament this week, with all of my colleagues in both houses of Parliament, and the brilliant team of lawyers, which we have had to help us secure this victory.
We are members of all political parties united in a strong single belief that [terror listing of the PMOI(MEK)] was shameful. It not only did not support those millions in Iran who cried freedom, but sided with those who had stolen freedom from them. I want to apologize.
But, this is not our victory. The real victors are those 4,000 people in Ashraf City, exiled in the deserts of Iraq, who want no more than to go home to a free and democratic homeland. Our victory is their victory.
Their victory is a victory for those millions in Iran who demand change to a democratic secular state. The success that we celebrate here today, with all of you here in your thousands, is a major step on the road to a free Iran. It signals that a theocratic regime can be beaten, and that those millions seeking democratic change do not stand alone.
Next, and very soon, we expect our government to fulfill its legal and moral obligation to ask the European Union to remove the copycat ban on the Resistance imposed at the UK’s request. And, the Americans then would be wise to do the same since the Resistance is on the side of freedom and not the enemy of freedom.
While that terror tag was wrongly hung around the neck of Iran’s best hope for democratic change, the mullahs have won extra time to threaten their own people, the Middle East and the rest of the world with a lethal mix of violent fundamentalism and nuclear weapons. The risk is real. The risk is menacing. Nuclear weapons in the hands of these militant madmen threaten us all.
Neither the people of Iran, nor those in neighboring states or more widely, can run the risk of giving the mullahs the extra and shortening time they now need to build nuclear weapons. With one voice, the rest of us must say no and we must mean it. UN sanctions! Yes, and the tighter the better. But, the surer, safer route to averting this real threat is that proposed by Mrs. Rajavi on behalf of the Resistance. It is called democracy, and that is something the mullahs do not understand and certainly do not want.
The mullahs will soon become no more than a dirty stain on the long and proud history of Iran; A long nightmare, which will soon give way to the dawn of a free and democratic country. Iran will be free.
