Maryam Rajavi: After Interpol Arrest Warrant, Trade and Dialogue with Tehran not Justified

Today, Interpol confirmed arrest warrants for five senior Iranian regime officials. Reacting to the decision, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, congratulated the Iranian people and the families of the victims of the Iranian regime’s terrorist operations across the world for the failure of the mullahs’ attempts during the Interpol General Assembly to secure the cancellation of arrest warrants for those officials.

Mrs. Rajavi called on the United Nations Security Council and the European Union to adopt comprehensive sanctions against the regime. She reiterated that any deal or negotiation with a regime whose leaders and officials are directly involved in terrorism and flagrant violations of human rights is neither legitimate nor justified.

The mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former Intelligence and Foreign ministers and Khamenei advisors Ali Fallahian and Ali-Akbar Velayati, current Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, former Revolutionary Guards Supreme Commander Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezai and ex-Qods (Jerusalem) Force Commander Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, as well as a number of other ministers and ambassadors are being sought by judiciaries in several countries for direct involvement in terrorist operations.

Mrs. Rajavi added that shaking hands with terrorists, namely the leaders of the Iranian regime, who are responsible for murdering 120,000 political prisoners in Iran, and blacklisting its victims, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, is an affront to democracy, while making a mockery of the war on terror.

The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance said: The time has come to prosecute in an international tribunal the leaders of the mullahs’ regime which is the "central banker of terrorism" for their role in hundreds of terrorist activities across the world.  There are thousands of pieces of irrefutable evidence which prove the mullahs’ responsibility in these atrocities.

According to reliable reports by the Iranian Resistance, the Buenos Aires bombing was conducted jointly by the IRGC and the mullahs’ Intelligence Ministry. It was approved on August 14, 1993 in a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council, chaired at the time by the then President Hashemi Rafsanjani. The plan was subsequently approved by Khamenei. The then Qods Force Commander Ahmad Vahidi was assigned to implement the plan and a senior Qods Force officer, appointed as the third secretary of the regime’s embassy in Argentina, was in charge of carrying out the operation. Asghari returned to Iran immediately after the bombing.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 7, 2007