NCRI – Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President elect of the Iranian Resistance, welcomed the imposition of new sanctions against the mullahs’ regime by the US and the European Union. She expressed hope that these sanctions would improve to a comprehensive arms, technological, diplomatic and oil embargoes against the clerical regime. “Banning new investments in the oil industry, which is basically in the hands of IRGC, is an essential step, but it has to expand to ending or at least freezing previous investments as well,” Mrs. Rajavi added.
Reiterating that a major part of Iran’s economy, especially imports and exports, is managed by the IRGC, she said, “Under the current circumstances and while the religious dictatorship is in power, it is the IRGC which benefits from the windfall gains of economic and commercial ties with the European countries. These revenues either essentially contribute to preserving the velayat-e faqih establishment and its suppressive organs, enabling it to export terrorism and fundamentalism, and to continue its nuclear projects or are being plundered by the regime’s officials or deposited in their bank accounts. Thus, despite all propaganda and commotion by the religious fascism ruling Iran, the Iranian people overwhelmingly welcome the sanctions and demand a complete severance of commercial and economic ties with the regime.”
Mrs. Rajavi said: Despite all suppressive measures, the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people has continued to expand. The regime’s internal fissures continue to widen. In short, the regime’s final phase has begun. As such any investment in this regime not only runs counter to democracy and human rights in Iran as well as regional peace and tranquility, but also lacks any future from an economic vantage point and is doomed to fail.”
Mrs. Rajavi had previously and repeatedly emphasized the need for imposing comprehensive sanctions against the regime by the EU and the US. In her February 23, 2010 address to the European Parliament, she had asked the EU and the US to take concrete measures to sanction the regime. She also said that such measures did not need the approval of the UN Security Council. Mrs. Rajavi had called for boycotting all direct and indirect commerce with the IRGC and its affiliated companies and institutions as well as closing down the IRGC-affiliated offices of all companies and institutions in Europe.
Secretariat of National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 17, 2010
