Mottaki should be arrested by the judicial authorities in the U.S. and handed over to an international tribunal
NCRI – The mullahs’ Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is expected to attend a conference entitled “Review of the United Nation’s program on light and small arms,” at the UN headquarters in New York, according to the government-owned website, Baztab.
Baztab, which belongs to Mohsen Rezaii, the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards, said that Mottaki is expected to condemn “foreign support” for the Iranian Resistance and “access to light and heavy arms by terrorists,” at the conference.
Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, demanded that Mottaki be barred from entering the UN and reiterated that his presence and address at the UN session as the representative of the mullahs’ regime which is the “central bank for terrorism” and the “most active state sponsor of terrorism” is a flagrant violation of the values that the world body is supposed to protect. He added that Mottaki has a 27-year record of taking part in domestic suppression as well as exporting terrorism abroad which by all standards amount to crimes against humanity. Mohaddessin urged the United States’ Justice Department to arrest Mottaki and hand him over to an international tribunal to face punishment for his crimes.
In 1980, as a fervent Revolutionary Guard’s commander, Mottaki took part in the bloody suppression of the people in Kurdistan. Appointed as ambassador to Turkey in 1985, Mottaki has a long record in planning and organizing terrorist operations, particularly against the Resistance’s activists and Iranian dissidents outside Iran. Mottaki was directly involved in planning and implementing the abduction of Mr. Abol-Hassan Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian Resistance activist, in Turkey in 1988 and the attempt on the lives of Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin and Mr. Hossein Abedini, an NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee member, in 1990 in Istanbul.
In his capacity as the then-Foreign Ministry’s Director General of Western European Affairs, Mottaki played a key role in the assassination of Dr. Abdurrahman Qassemlou, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, and two of his colleagues in 1989 in Vienna by facilitating the terrorists’ safe passage from the scene and helping them evade justice in Austria.
Mottaki speaks of terrorists having access to light and heavy armament at a time when his regime is the main political, financial, and logistical sponsor of the most ruthless terrorists in the world and he is undoubtedly personally involved in the crimes committed by the mullahs’ regime in Iran.
Mohaddessin added that repeating threadbare accusations against the Iranian Resistance is on one hand meant to pave the way for terrorist attacks on the Resistance and on the other a sign of the mullahs’ anger for the June 16 verdict by the Paris Court of Appeals which revoked all restrictions on the members of the Iranian Resistance in France.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 28, 2006
