NCRI – “High-fiving” of Ali Reza Sheikh Attar, and the mullahs’ regime Ambassador to Germany, with Claudia Roth, co-chair of Germany’s Green Party, a known advocate of the clerical regime and a close acquaintance of Martin Kobler, faced strong protest in Germany.
The German Die Welt newspaper wrote: “On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, the head of the Green Party (Claudia Roth) walked happy and smiling toward the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ambassador in Berlin, Ali Reza Sheikh Attar and hitting his hand in “High Five” style… What could not be seen is that there is a lot of blood on the Ambassador’s hand. He is a confident of the Iranian President. During the period between 1980 and 1985, which was still in the Khomeini era, he was the governor of Kurdistan and West Azerbaijan and hence is responsible for the execution of hundreds of Kurdish opponents.”
The protests in German media went as far ahead that some leading German circles demanded the resignation of Mrs. Roth.
The “high fiving” also caused disputes within the clerical regime so that the mullahs’ Ambassador was forced to ridiculously deny it.
He said: “I raised my hand as a sign of respect, not for hand shaking, and Mrs. Roth also raised her hand. It was a short gap, but there was no touching!”
But the episode did not end here he said: “While Ms. Roth and the Green Party disagree with us on some issues, including human rights, on the subject of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) being dangerous and terrorist, they agree with us.”
He continued “The German newspaper Bild is pro-Zionist and pro PMOI terrorist group. On the one hand they wanted to show their power to Roth because of her opposition to PMOI, and on the other hand portray me, the Iranian Ambassador as criminal” (state-run Fars news agency, February 10, 2013).
Mrs. Claudia Roth and a number of her colleagues in the Green faction in the German Bundestag (Parliament), as well as in the European Parliament, have been in the forefront of promoting good relations with the religious dictatorship ruling Iran, opposing sanctions and animosity toward the PMOI. To this end, they have made several trips to Iran under the mullahs. 
Two months prior to removal of the PMOI from the European Union terrorist list, Claudia Roth tried hardly to dissuade 150 members of the German Bundestag, who had demanded the PMOI’s delisting. (Frankfurter Allgemeine – November 28, 2008)
Furthermore, she prevented them from offering any support to Iran’s democratic opposition by repeating the mullahs’ false allegations against the PMOI.
In an official statement and letter to the members of Parliament, dated November 27, 2008, she repeated the mullahs’ regime propaganda against the PMOI and concluded: “We categorically distance ourselves from recognizing the PMOI as an Iranian democratic opposition”.
Claudia Roth and her colleagues in the Green faction of the German Bundestag intentionally tried to portray the July 2009 massacre by al-Maliki forces against protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention and unarmed refugees in Ashraf as “a potential for revenge by the Kurds and Shiites who had been violently suppressed until 2003” in order to whitewash the crimes of of Maliki and his masters in Tehran. (German Green Party faction parliamentary question, September 7, 2009). 
This is exactly the same absurd lies that the mullahs’ regime and its proxy government in Baghdad used to justify numerous attacks against Camp Ashraf residents that killed 50 and wounded or disabled more than 1,100 others, imposition of four and a half years of inhumane siege as well as psychologically torturing the resident with some 300 loudspeakers.
Mrs. Claudia Roth and Martin Kobler have a very close relationship and have had several meetings in recent months in Iraq and Germany.
