NCRI – Undeterred by sub-zero temperature, hundreds of supporters of the Iranian Resistance staged a rally before the Swedish parliament on Thursday to express their full support to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
Participants stressed that there were no justification to keep the PMOI in the terror list which was part of a package of concessions by the EU to the criminal mullahs ruling Iran.
"As the European policy-makers were disgraced by the fundamentalist clerics for their failed policy of appeasement, they should now remove the terror label from the PMOI immediately," said Anoush, an Iranian psychiatrist in Stockholm. "Their designation of the PMOI angered Iranians inside and outside the country right from the beginning and now, after Ahmadinejad’s arrival, the European public are also angry about this immoral move," he added.
Pirouz, former university lecturer from Tehran residing in Sweden told a journalist that designation of the PMOI was the best gift to the mullahs which assured them of their continued suppressive rule. "European politicians closed a blind eye to the crimes of the clerical regime in Iran and now their own security is threatened by the mullahs. They have learnt how to get their way with the EU policy-makers and if they build their own nuclear weapon, then no one can stop them."
Participants in the rally with a strong attendance of Iranian youth chanted "We want peace we want justice – We want Mojahedin off the list" and "Refer mullahs’ nuclear file to the Security Council NOW."
In a statement read out by Mr. Manouchehr Arastoupour, Iranian rowing champion and a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, it was stressed that the clerical regime is using the Russian nuclear proposal to deceive the international community to buy more time to build its nuclear weapons.
In his address to the rally, Justad Gronous, Professor of philosophy from Stockholm University criticized the policy of appeasement and blamed the wrong policy for the emergence of Ahmadinejad. "Enlisting the PMOI has no legal base as this movement, in its 40 years of struggle, has proven that it only wants to establish freedom and democracy."
Iranian Youth Association for Democracy addressed the Swedish government and the parliament in its statement and said "we have gathered here for justice." While calling for PMOI’s removal from the terror list, the youth association expressed its support to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi’s third option for democratic change in Iran through people and their resistance.
