Conference in Paris on occasion of termination of prosecution of Iranian Resistance in France
Cooperation with Iranian regime on pretext of confronting ISIS is a lethal political blunder that will fan spread of terrorism and fundamentalism
On Wednesday, September 24, in a large conference held in Paris on the occasion of closure of the judicial case against the Iranian Resistance in France, Maryam Rajavi, called the collapse of this file a victory for justice and resistance, a defeat for the demonizing campaign, as well as an accomplishment for all of humanity that is fed up with tyranny and fundamentalism.
She said: In this file, the French judiciary became a tool of the mullahs’ regime, but now, as Henri Leclerc put it “the French public prosecution service showed that it can refrain from kowtowing to the political considerations”. It is time for the French to save their politics, diplomacy and intelligence services from the poison of the Iranian religious dictatorship. It is time for France to show firmness and dismantle the Iranian regime’s network of agents and IRGC’s front companies and organizations in France and Europe.
All charges in this judicial case in France against the Iranian Resistance, ongoing since 14 years ago, were dropped last week in a historic verdict by the French judges and this file that lawyers and judicial experts consider it one of the longest judicial cases in the France’s contemporary history was closed for good. In this conference, a large number of political figures and the most prominent French jurists, along with the board of lawyers of this case, were present.
Rajavi stated: The crime of those who opened an empty dossier in collaboration with the mullahs to destroy the Iranian Resistance is not just a breaking of the law and undermining justice or even abusing the judiciary, their real crime was to pave the way for the demon of fundamentalism. She underscored: The deadly mistake by French and Western governments in the past years led to the catastrophic diversion of combating terrorism. The inception and growth of extremist groups such as ISIS is a direct consequence of years of appeasing its godfather which is the regime of Velayat-e faqih.
Building up empty and discredited dossiers against the Iranian Resistance which is the anti-thesis and viable alternative to fundamentalism was the greatest incentive to this regime to incessantly sow the seeds of al-Qaida and ISIS and etc…..in the entire Middle East and Africa, particularly in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, in the past three decades.
The video message of Henri Leclerc, the prominent French jurist and lawyer of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, was played in the conference and Alejo Vidal Quadras, former vice-President of the European parliament; Gilbert Mitterrand, President of France Liberté Foundation-Danielle Mitterrand Foundation; prominent lawyers such as William Bourdon, Patrick Baudouin, Jean-Pierre Spitzer, Bernard Dartevel, Marie-Laure Barre, and Nathalie Sentk; as well as Messrs. Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former Algerian Prime Minister; Alain Vivien, former minister; honorary Governor Yves Bonnet, former Director of DST; Jean-Pierre Béquet, member of Val d’Oise Provincial Council; and Jean-Pierre Muller on behalf of mayors; Ingrid Betancourt, former Presidential candidate of Colombia; Judge Francois Colcombet, joint founder of French Committee for a Democratic Iran (CFID); Ms. Christine Ockrent, reporter and commentator; Jean-Pierre Brard, former member of French National Assembly; Anne-Marie Lizin, honorary President of Belgian Senate; and Pierre Bercis, President of the New Human Rights, offered speeches. In addition, a number of the victims, witnesses or those affected by the injustice of these covert deals also spoke to this conference.
In another part of her speech, Rajavi welcomed France’s stepping forward to resolve the Iraq crisis and to confront ISIS and warned the parties who insisted on giving the Iranian regime a share: You are falling into the mullahs’ trap; instead of containing the crisis in Iraq this shall enflame a Shia-Sunni war and rebuild the Iranian regime’s domination in Iraq. The anti-thesis of Velayat-e faqih, and the fundamentalism and barbarism it has created is the democratic Islam that is represented by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran; a tolerant Islam removed from compulsion, intimidation, beheadings, and despotism whose message is brotherhood, equality, forgiveness, and justice.
Rajavi called on the French government to assume the leadership of a humanitarian initiative to provide the minimum requirements to guarantee the safety and security of the freedom fighters in Camp Liberty until all of them are transferred out of Iraq. She called on the French government to support the complete annulment of the anti-human siege on Liberty, especially its medical blockade; to end the prison-like condition in Liberty; and to have this camp that is nothing but a prison, be a refugee camp under the United Nations’ supervision. She said that the Iranian people want France to stand with them, rather than the religious dictatorship.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 24, 2014
