MEK Members Are Heroes

Prominent European Politician: MEK Members Are Heroes

Alejo Vidal Quadras, a prominent European politician gave an inspiring speech at the Free Iran Gathering in Paris last weekend, in which he threw his support behind the Iranian Resistance and their president Maryam Rajavi.
He as a former vice president of the European Union, said that the gathering showed that the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an umbrella organisation of many Iranian Resistance groups, with Rajavi at its helm, was the only chance for democratic change in Iran.
He said: “We will support you till the final victory.”
He also spoke about his joy over the safe relocation of the MEK members (an activist arm of the Resistance) from Camp Liberty in Iraq to Albania in 2016.
He said: “This is the first time that we are together in this gathering with no concern about the safety of Ashrafis…[this] was a great achievement, and a strategic defeat for the mullahs’ regime who were planning to massacre all of them. These heroes stood up in heartless time against the Iranian regime and they were and are an example for the Iranian people for their commitment to freedom, to democracy and to equality between men and women.”
He called them “symbols” of the Resistance and said that fight for freedom had given “new meaning” to the lives of their supporters.
He said: “Every day, every day we win this more victories against the regime, new victories of the Iranian resistance.”
He also encouraged the international community to recognise the NCRI as the true voice of the Iranian people, as many individual politicians already do.
He said: “Western governments should recognise it in dialogue and cooperate with NCRI because the regime has no future and does not have support inside Iran. The only way the regime keeps in power is repression and terror. If the Iranian people could express their will without constraint the regime will not last for one minute.”
He cited the recent statement from 256 members of the European Parliament, which called for their governments to condition their relationships with the Regime based on improvements to its human rights record and for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards IRGC to be blacklisted for terrorist activity, as proof that lawmakers care and wish for it to be the public policy of their governments.

He said: “If we really believed in our principles we must understand that if we give up these principles for short term economic benefit, we will lose both. If our values are universal, we must defend them not only in our home, in Europe, but all over the world.”

Europe's Deadly Inaction and Misguided Policy on Iran

The new information  about the  IRGC revealed in a press conference in Washington D.C On Tuesday, 14 February 2017,
The NCRI further revealed that in addition to the forces who are trained for military action as part of the regime’s overall meddling in the region, terrorist units of the Quds Force are also trained in separate and secret units and are dispatched to various countries.
Where does Europe stand on the IRGC’s role in formation of paramilitary terrorist groups in Iraq or its role in Yemen helping the Houthi? Are they still failing to recognize the connection between the IRGC’s spread of extremism and terrorism and the negative impact of their own policy towards the heart of Islamic fundamentalism?
Despite the IRGC’s undeniable conduct in Syria, which can only be described as war crimes, and despite its role in domestic suppression, it seems as though it is business as usual for Europe. The European countries seem to be so eager to get their hands on Iranian market that they are prepared to not only ignore Tehran’s rogue behavior and its consequence for Western interests and the Iranian people, but also to trample on their own principles and values.
Europe is not only accepting humiliation but is also helping the very entity that is responsible for war crimes and support for terrorism. The IRGC, through its various subsidiaries, is currently dominating Iran’s economy.

For many years through its network in Iran, the MEK has exposed mullahs’ secret nuclear weapons program being run by the IRGC, as well as IRGC engagement in terrorism, missile program and atrocities against Iranian peoples, but so far Europeans have decided to ignore these facts.

It is time for Europe to end its deadly inaction vis-à-vis the IRGC and its policy on Iran. It is, indeed, time to revise its approach on Iran by looking beyond short term economic interests. The negative consequences far outweigh the short-term benefits of helping, through business, the leading state sponsor of terrorism and in particular its most suppressive arm, the IRGC. More important, European governments should realize that the clerical regime is very vulnerable and shaky at home. Europe should not put all its eggs in one basket, nor give away crucial leverage. It should be reminded that the clerical regime is desperately in need of relations with Europe, and could be forced to make important sacrifices in pursuit of those relations.

Toward this end, the following steps must be taken:

1. Stop all business with the IRGC and its affiliate companies, and make all trade with Tehran contingent upon its halting executions and ending IRGC meddling in other countries and support for terrorism.

2. Call for immediate removal of the IRGC and its affiliates from Syria, or impose punitive sanctions if Tehran refuses to do so.

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The PMOI/MEK is a natural ally of those seeking civic freedom, human rights and democracy in Iran

Wesley Martin, a retired U.S. Army colonel

NCRI - Wesley Martin, a retired U.S. Army colonel, served as the senior anti-terrorism officer in Iraq from 2003 to 2004 and the senior operations officer for detention operations in from 2005 to 2006. He wrote an article for the United Press International on Friday, September 9, subsequent to the successful completion of the resettlement of Camp Liberty residents from Iraq to Europe. He mentioned that simultaneous with growing calls seeking justice for 30,000 massacred political prisoners in Iran, the victorious transfer of PMOI members opens a new chapter for the Iranian people and Resistance. The following is the full text of his article:
This summer marked the 28th anniversary of an extraordinary massacre of political prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the span of a few months in 1988, upwards of 30,000 people were put to death as a result of minutes-long trials that were little more than loyalty tests for the regime. The vast majority of those victims were members and supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and recently revealed information has helped to confirm that the massacre was primarily motivated by a longstanding desire to snuff out the opposition of the MEK to the increasingly repressive theocracy.

Predictably, then, the 1988 massacre was an early incident in what would become a long history of hardship for the MEK. That hardship would follow the resistance group beyond the borders of Iran, and would be made worse over the years not only by the direct action of Iran and its proxies, but also by the inaction of much of the world community.
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Iran -Senator Robert Torricelli: ‘Free Iran’ rally an historic moment

Senator Robert Torricelli: ‘Free Iran’ rally an historic moment

NCRI - Robert Torricelli, the former United States Senator from New Jersey, told huge crowds gathered in Paris on July 9 at the “Free Iran” rally under the banner of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), that they would always remember this occasion.
They would remember it because it was "the greatest assembly of free Iranians in the world." They would remember it too for the strength of the "coalition which begins in America and Canada, stretches across Europe and North Africa," he said. They would also remember the rally for the addition a new "powerful voice" in Saudi Arabia's support for a free Iran. 
Senator Torricelli assured the thousands in Iran listening covertly to the rally that they would have a free Iran.
The Senator made a point in his address of thanking Albania for "taking a stand for the people of Liberty." Albania has accepted members of the PMOI (MEK) from their camp in Iraq, Camp Liberty, where they face constant harassment and violence inspired by the Iranian regime. Albania has made this decision in the face of pressure from the regime not to do so.
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