Part 3 of the text of speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of resistance of Iran (NCRI) in the gathering of more than 70,000 Iranian exiles in Paris on June 28, 2008:
Part 3 of the text of speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of resistance of Iran (NCRI) in the gathering of more than 70,000 Iranian exiles in Paris on June 28, 2008:
In recent weeks, the clerical regime, through blackmail and deception, has tried to coerce France into supporting the maintaining of the PMOI on the terror list.
The pretext for this unlawful effort is the June 17 dossier. Everyone recalls that this episode, the sweeping raid on the offices of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in 2003 was the result of a direct deal between the Chirac-Villepin government and the clerical regime. The subsequent dossier was essentially empty and unfounded. Because it lacked any credible evidence, it had been formed on the basis of the EU's blacklisting of the PMOI. That listing no longer has any legal basis and citing it is unlawful.
If this dossier is not empty and invalid, as you claim, then why do you not resolve it five years after it was initiated? And if this case is without merit and your conduct appears to confirm this view, then why are you invoking it to justify the terrorist tag?
I therefore caution that any effort to support the maintaining of the PMOI on the EU terrorist list amounts to a despicable scandal for French policy and is contrary to France's international obligations in the fight against terrorism and fundamentalism, particularly since in two days France will assume the rotating presidency of the European Union.
I caution that complying with the demands of the mullahs constitutes the greatest treachery to the laws of the French Republic and the European Union. And the anti-Islamic Ayatollahs in Tehran will be emboldened.
From this platform, I call on the Council of Ministers of the European Union to abide by the legal ramifications of the vote in both Houses of the British Parliament, and remove the PMOI from their terrorist list.
The only competent national authority that sought to include the PMOI has now bowed to the decision of its own courts and Parliament and has stepped aside. The EU Council of Ministers no longer has any excuse to continue this listing.
Put an end to this designation.
Indeed, the force of justice and conscience will compel you to abandon this unjust designation.
Indeed, the force of justice and conscience will finally compel you to accept the rights of the Iranian people to attain freedom and abandon fueling the mullahs' murder machine.
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