Maryam Rajavi: Thirty years after Khomeini stole the Iranian anti-monarchy revolution People's urgent demand is an end to despotism and establishment of democracy
NCRI – Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, in her speech on the anniversary of anti-monarchy revolution in Iran said that 30 years after the Iranian revolution was stolen by Khomeini, there are every indication that they urgently want to replace the ruling bloodthirsty despotism with democracy. The regime resorted to barbaric measures to suppress the people, emphatically continued the 8-year Iran-Iraq war and spent the national resources to expand fundamentalism and export terrorism.
However, according to polls taken by the mullahs' regime more than 95 percent of population are disenchanted or outright hate their rule. In 2008 alone the Iranian cities witnessed 3,000 demonstrations and popular protests.
The clerical regime’s record in past three decades includes:
– Execution of 120,000 political opponents including the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988;
– Eight years of unpopular war;
– 450 terrorist operations outside Iran;
– Launching a campaign of terror and panic in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon in recent years;
– Enforcing a gender apartheid system;
– Having the highest number of executions per capita in the world;
– Nine million unemployed primarily among the young work force;
– Eight million live in major cities slums,
– Ten million drug addicts (highest number in the world);
– 50 percent of population live under poverty line;
Mrs. Rajavi said that appeasement policy pursued by the West in the past 20 years has emboldened the mullahs' regime to follow full steam ahead with its suppressive policies at home and export of fundamentalism and terrorism aboard as well as its attempts to obtain nuclear weapons. The most destructive aspect of this policy was blacklisting the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and blocking the democratic change in Iran.
Following a seven-year legal and political campaign with seven court rulings in favor of delisting the PMOI coming from British courts and European Court of Justice in Luxemburg and support by 2,000 parliamentarians across Europe, the Council of Ministers on January 26, 2009 removed the terrorist label.
The time has come for the West to replace the policy of appeasement with a firm policy toward the Iranian regime which has been condemned 55 times by the United Nations bodies for its systematic violation of human rights.
She said that the ruling religious fascism not only has enchained and suppressed the Iranian people but has posed a great threat to world peace by exporting terrorism to other courtiers, warmongering in the Middle East and attempts to obtain nuclear weapons.
The international community must impose comprehensive sanctions on the Iranian regime and refer its human rights dossier to the UN Security Council for action.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 10, 2009
