Iran regime’s meddling in Iraq condemned by Brussels rally

NCRI – In protest against repugnant remarks by Iranian regime’s president Ahmadinejad, and the regime’s nuclear and terrorist threats, hundreds of Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance gathered in front of the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, December 21.
The event was organized to coincide with the resumption of talks between the EU-3 and the Iranian regime. The participants called for a firm position against the fundamentalist regime in Iran and referral of its nuclear file to the UN Security Council.
Mullahs’ meddling in Iraq and its conspiracies against Camp Ashraf, the base for members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in that country, was condemned by the protesters and they reminded the Coalition Forces of their responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention to protect them. They also called on the EU to remove the PMOI from its terror list immediately as a first step to end the disgraced policy of appeasement which led to domination of a more fundamentalist faction in Iran.
The event was addressed by members of the Iranian Resistance and the Belgian Parliament as well as human rights activists and groups of Iranian communities in Belgium.
“The mullahs’ president reveals the true face of the Iranian regime to the world. The same face that people like Khatami had been trying to cover and hide for years,” Jean-Pierre Malmendier, a Liberal member of the Belgian Parliament told the crowd and added: “He made his stand very clear when he said, ‘We did not have a revolution for democracy’ and later stated, ‘the waves of a New Islamic revolution will soon spread to the entire world.’ These are all part of Iranian regime’s foreign policy agenda.”
As the next speaker, Dirk Claes, a Christian Democrat member of the Parliament stressed, “today it has become very clear that the Iranian regime does not have any peaceful intentions with its nuclear program. They broke their agreement to freeze all nuclear fuel cycle activities in August and have insisted on their right to enrich uranium inside the country ever since.” On Iraq he warned, “The mullahs want to take advantage of elections to advance their agenda in Iraq to finally force the coalition troops to leave and then impose their so-called Islamic system onto Iraq.”
“But more importantly, by controlling Iraq, they hope finally to get rid of their main opposition, People’s Mojahedin, who are mainly based in Camp Ashraf, north-east of Baghdad,” cautioned Claes.
Yazdan Haj-Hamzeh, a senior member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, spoke about the threat of fundamentalism stemming from Iran and warned that nuclear weapons in the hands of religious dictatorship ruling that country would certainly put the security in the region and the world in jeopardy.
The final speaker, Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, chair of the NCRI’s Women’s Committee, praised the PMOI members in Camp Ashraf for their steadfastness and described them as the main obstacle to spread of fundamentalism in Iraq which has turned them into mullahs’ terrorist target in that country.
The gathering ended with messages of solidarity by various Iranian groups and personalities.