Maryam Rajavi Speech at the Italian Parliament .

Source: NCRI

On Wednesday, July 6, 2011, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, attended a conference at the Italian Parliament to speak about the situation in Camp Ashraf. Below is the text of the speech in English:
Elected representatives of the Italian people,
Honorable figures attending the conference,
I am pleased to visit Rome once again to enjoy the Italian people’s warm hospitality.


Dear Friends,
Six months have passed since the start of the spring of revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa.
Thus far, dictatorial regimes in Tunisia and Egypt have fallen.
The regimes in Libya, Syria and Yemen are at the verge of collapse.
And, Iraq’s new dictatorship is encircled by growing protests.
In Iran, too, the mullahs’ regime is grappling with a number of fatal challenges:
• The first is the threat of the Iranian people’s uprisings, which can be sparked at any moment;
• The second is the threat posed by the organized resistance, which is an inspiration for the Iranian society, and particularly women and youths, to pursue freedom;
• The third is the spring of revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa which acts as a recurring nightmare for the Iranian regime;
• And, finally, there is the crisis of disobedience by the mullahs’ President and a deadly power struggle being waged at the helm of the clerical regime, which has forced the regime into an extremely difficult predicament.
Today, whether Khamenei decides to sack Ahmadinejad or whether he decides to keep him in power for the next two years, the fact remains that in either scenario the entirety of the regime has been dealt with a powerful blow.
Faced with the ensuing pressures resulting from this deadlock, the mullahs are trying to eliminate the residents of Ashraf and harm the Iranian Resistance in order to avert their regime’s downfall. This renders the defense of Ashraf precisely in line with the establishment of democracy in Iran.
That is why the Iranian regime’s officials have in recent weeks repeatedly met and conducted negotiations with their puppet government in Baghdad.
On June 25, the clerical regime’s Intelligence Minister referred to these talks and said, “We have made plans for the dissolution of the PMOI as soon as possible, and we are carrying out talks with the Iraqi government to that effect and about the ultimate fate of Ashraf.”
This plot, and particularly the April 8 attack, provoked extensive rebuke and protests in Iraq, the Arab countries, as well as in Europe and the United States. They included the majorities of 30 parliaments around the world, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, and Ms. Catherine Ashton, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs.
In recent days, over 525,000 people in Iraq’s Diyala province, where Ashraf is located, have signed a declaration, saying that the hysteric efforts to eradicate the residents of Ashraf lay bare the Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq. In their declaration, the people of Diyala voiced support for the proposed solution by the European Parliament, and called on the UN and the US to assume the protection of Ashraf so long as PMOI members reside there.
We salute this great movement, which despite the security threats in Iraq, has managed to make such strides in support of the residents of Ashraf.
Dear Friends,
The people of the Middle East are pleased to see western governments finally supporting the arisen people of Libya after years of backing dictatorial regimes, and they are praising your leadership.
However, at the same time, western governments continue to remain passive in the face of the main regional and global threat, the religious dictatorship ruling Iran.
The April 8 massacre at Ashraf, a crime that could be avoided, is one of the dire consequences of the irresponsible policy of the West, and particularly the United States, with respect to the Iranian regime.
The prolonging of this policy, and the silence and inaction about the inhumane siege on Ashraf by the Iraqi government has turned the issue of the wounded in Ashraf into a humanitarian tragedy.
The mullah-inspired deadline for the closure of Ashraf paves the way for yet another catastrophe and the irresponsible US approach, despite all the legal obligations towards the residents of Ashraf, has granted the Iranian dictatorship and its Iraqi proxies enough space to perpetrate more attacks.

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