NCRI – The speaker of the Iranian regime’s parliament cancelled a scheduled visit to the Council of Europe in protest at a recent invitation to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the state-run news agency IRNA reported Thursday.
IRNA said Gholam-Ali Hadad Adel cancelled the planned speech in Strasbourg after Maryam Rajavi met with European lawmakers on Monday.
NCRI – The speaker of the Iranian regime’s parliament cancelled a scheduled visit to the Council of Europe in protest at a recent invitation to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the state-run news agency IRNA reported Thursday.
IRNA said Gholam-Ali Hadad Adel cancelled the planned speech in Strasbourg after Maryam Rajavi met with European lawmakers on Monday.
On Monday Mrs. Rajavi was invited by the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) Parliamentary Group to speak at the Council of Europe.
Lord Russell-Johnston, former chairman of the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe along with a number of other European lawmakers including Jean Huss, MP from Luxemburg, Baroness Knight of Collingtree from British Conservative Party, Alan Meale, MP from British Labour Party, Morten Messerschmidt MP from Danish People’s Party, Doris Frommelt, MP from Lichtenstein, and Dr. Rudy Vis, MP from British Labour Party, welcomed Mrs. Rajavi to the Council of Europe Headquarters in Strasburg.
Mrs. Rajavi addressed the session of the Group of the European People’s Party (EPP/CD).
The President-elect of Iranian Resistance criticized the appeasement policy toward the mullahs’ regime and emphasized that those who pursue this policy are mistaken to think that they can contain the mullahs’ terrorism and fundamentalism.
Mrs. Rajavi also took part in a press conference in which a number of deputies from the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe participated. Addressing European governments, Mrs. Rajavi said, "The time has come for you to open your eyes and ears. Do not pave the way for a devastating war through the policy of appeasement."
In reference to her speech in December 2004 at the European Parliament, she said, "The world does not have to choose between appeasement and military intervention. There is a third option, to bring democratic change in Iran by relying on the Iranian people and their resistance."
