Conference on Iran emphasizes need to adopt resolute policy toward clerical regime, recognize Iranian Resistance, support 10-point plan of Maryam Rajavi, return Liberty residents to Ashraf
Maryam Rajavi:
• The Iranian regime is a spent force that has entered its final phase
• Combating fundamentalism & terrorism is not possible without confronting its epicenter in Tehran and promoting democratic Islam as represented by PMOI
On Saturday, February 2, on the eve of the thirty-fourth anniversary of the Anti-Monarchy revolution in Iran, on the invitation of the French Committee for a Free Iran, an international conference was held in Paris, titled “Anniversary of Revolution, Change in 2013”, where many prominent dignitaries from France, Europe, United States and parliamentary delegations from Egypt, Spain, Czech Republic and Estonia participated and offered speeches.
Speakers to the conference, chaired by Jean Pierre Spitzer, were: Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance; Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Speaker of House of Representatives and U.S. presidential candidate (2012); Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the U.S. Democratic Party (2005-2009) and U.S. presidential candidate (2004); Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico (2003-2011), U.S. Ambassador to United Nations, and Energy Secretary to Clinton administration; Dominique Lefebvre, member of French National Assembly; Ambassador Phillip Crowley, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (2009-2011); and also from the Spanish parliamentary delegation, Carmen Quintanilla (Chair of Women’s Committee), Jose Maria Chiquillo, member of Senate Foreign Affairs Commission, and Jordi Xucla, member of parliament; Raid Juku-Kalle member of parliament, and Rait Maruste, Chair of parliament’s Constitutional Legal Committee and former judge of EU Human Rights Court , for Estonian parliamentary delegation; from Czech Republic: Stanislav Polcak, Head of Constitutional Legal Committee of the Czech Parliament; Tahar Boumedia, a former senior UN official in charge of Camp Ashraf file in Iraq; Atef Makhalif, member of Egyptian parliament delegation; Aude de Thuin, Founder and president of the Women’s Forum for Economy and Society in France; John Sano, National Clandestine Service’s first Deputy Director and member of CIA Intelligence Management; Colonel Wesley Martin, former commander for anti-terrorism for coalition forces in Iraq and U.S. Commander for Ashraf protection.
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