NCRI – As the Group of 8 (G8) leaders prepare to meet in Italy this week, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, emphasized the need to adopt a tougher policy towards the religious fascism ruling Iran. She also called for the referral of the regime’s dossier on crimes to the United Nations Security Council as well as obliging it to agree to hold free elections under UN supervision.
Mrs. Rajavi said that the vast majority of the Iranian people voiced their demand and desire for change and establishment of democracy and popular sovereignty in Iran, during their recent nationwide uprising. At a time when the regime’s crimes against defenseless protestors has sparked outrage and disgust all over the world, dealing or negotiating with the regime or making concessions to it is completely illegitimate.
Adopting firm policy towards the regime is not only the Iranian people’s demand, but is also a prerequisite for peace and security in the Middle East and the world. Otherwise, the clerical regime, which is engulfed in domestic crises, will see its only way out in stepping up suppression, increasing meddling in the region, and expediting its nuclear weapons projects.
Mrs. Rajavi called on the leaders of the eight leading industrialized nations as well as the UN Secretary General and the Security Council to specifically pursue the following measures:
1. Suspend diplomatic relations and impose comprehensive sanctions against the regime, while banning foreign visits by regime officials, for as long as the suppression has not completely ended;
2. Force the regime to annul the sham election results and accept a free election under UN supervision instead, on the basis of the people’s sovereignty and not the absolute rule of clergy;
3. Refer the crimes dossier of the regime to the UN Security Council and bring the officials responsible for suppression and killing of political prisoners, especially Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to trial in an international court.
In the course of the people’s uprising in Iran, at least 200 people were killed, while thousands of others were injured or arrested. Eyewitness reports of those released from the regime’s prisons about the barbaric torture of prisoners, which in some cases has led to their death, have truly caused agony and anguish for humanity. However, despite all the brutality and cruelty, the Iranian people are keeping up with their protests against the regime for a fourth straight week, and the youths’ chants of “God is great” and “Death to dictator” are still being heard in various parts of Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 8, 2009
