NCRI – Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, greeted Iranians on the Persian New Year (March 21) and hoped for the dawn of freedom soon in Iran.
She described last year as one of remarkable achievements for the resistance against the Iranian regime during which the people’s confrontation against the clerical rule reached a new climax. She called Camp Ashraf as the hotbed of heavy standoff which has also reached the Iranian communities in other countries; an ongoing resistance.
NCRI – Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, greeted Iranians on the Persian New Year (March 21) and hoped for the dawn of freedom soon in Iran.
She described last year as one of remarkable achievements for the resistance against the Iranian regime during which the people’s confrontation against the clerical rule reached a new climax. She called Camp Ashraf as the hotbed of heavy standoff which has also reached the Iranian communities in other countries; an ongoing resistance.
Mrs. Rajavi said that the victory of the Iranian Resistance in its legal battle to break up the “chains of terrorist lists [put on the Resistance] in Britain and the European Union,” squandered the regime’s seven-year-long investment on Europe’s lists.
She lauded more than 7,000 protest acts over the past year by Iranians from all walks of life, especially the students’ uprisings in cities across the country. She said that last year was the year of “disintegration of the clerical rule,” the year of crumbling of “the regime’s economic policy following the sharp decline in the oil prices” rustling in a “44 billion dollar budget deficit.” She reiterated that the regime has remained in power only through executions and absolute repression. The number of executions last year was nearly 400.
She added that the regime’s export of fundamentalism and terrorism during the past year reached a new level that the Arab countries formed a common front to deal with it and some countries like Morocco severed its diplomatic ties with the regime. She referred to growing hatred toward mullahs’ regime in Iraq and noted that distinguished clergies and patriotic politicians in Iraq say that any force which tries to expel the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from Iraq signals its organic ties with the Iranian regime.
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that the ongoing confrontation in Ashraf coupled with that of the Iranian people and their Resistance against the clerical regime, is a battle for freedom and democracy in Iran. Thus, the PMOI members in Ashraf have vowed to stand to the end.
Addressing Iranians abroad and supporters of the Resistance in the country, she called for the launch of a powerful international solidarity campaign in support of Ashraf residents and turn their heroic perseverance into a spring of freedom and democracy for Iran and repeal the plots by the regime’s Supreme Leader.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 21, 2009
