Question: What was the meaning of the Belgian Parliament’s invitation to Mrs Maryam Rajavi?
Mohammad Mohadessin: Mrs Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, was invited by the Belgian Senate and also by several Belgian parliamentarians. She was welcomed to the Senate on October 24 by its President, Mrs Anne-Marie Lizin. In an interview with Mrs Lizin, the issues of Iran, the resistance and the Iranian regime’s threat were discussed.
This interview was followed by a meeting at the Senate where Mrs. Rajavi made a speech before the senators and numerous deputies. She evoked the danger of the mullahs’ dictatorship, the horrific abuses of human rights and the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions.
Question: As you know, the Belgian Ambassador to Tehran was summoned twice to the Foreign Ministry and the Iranian government kept on protesting, asking why an organisation considered as terrorist by the European Union and the United States has been invited to the Belgian Parliament. What’s your opinion about that?
Mohaddessin: The Belgian Ambassador was not the only one, Finland’s Ambassador, whose country is currently presiding over the EU, has also been summoned by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Things cannot be any clearer: it shows that this regime is weakened and destabilized and fears its opposition. It wants to export and in the West the repression it imposes in the streets of Tehran. But I think it has received a good answer from the Belgian Senate.
Question: Mr Josy Dubié, Senator from the Greens, vigorously protested against the presence and the invitation of Mrs. Rajavi at the Senate.
M. Mohaddessin: This is quite natural. There are people and trends willing to support unilaterally this regime, thus they think that dialogue with the Iranian opposition, a dialogue with the National Council of Resistance of Iran and its President, jeopardizes what they have been working on for years.
Yet the absolute majority of the members of the Belgian Chamber and Senate clearly stated their support and said that the invitation and the meeting with Mrs Rajavi took place because the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies voted unanimously for a resolution demanding the removal of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran from EU’s terrorist list. In pursuant to this measure, the Belgian Senate invited Mrs. Rajavi.