NCRI – Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, has saluted European human rights defenders and progressive people who have urged their governments to accept stranded asylum seekers from Syria.
“The world’s conscience has been moved by scenes of homeless Syrians, distressed women, men and children, flooding Europe in pursuit of refuge and getting stranded in Hungary, Macedonia, Italy, Germany and Austria with an uncertain future”, Mrs. Rajavi said in a position published on her website on Friday.
“The horrendous deaths of 71 asylum seekers in a delivery truck abandoned in Austria, and the drowning of another group in the Mediterranean on their way from Turkey to Greece are the sequel of Assad’s atrocities against the oppressed people of Syria under the auspices of the Iranian regime.”
“Had the U.S. and EU not acquiesced to the crimes of Iran’s religious fascism, Assad and Maliki in Syria and Iraq and to the genocide and bloodbath in these two countries, the peoples of Syria and Iraq would not become homeless and the terrorist ISIS would not expand in their countries.”
“I salute all the youths, intellectuals, human rights defenders and all humanitarian and progressive people in Europe who have called for acceptance of Syrian asylum seekers and pressured their governments to change their policies in this regard,” she added.