Maryam Rajavi: The Iranian Resistance is qualified to bring about change in Iran
Beth: On Monday, January 17, an international conference on Iran was held, organized by the resistance, in the presence of international personalities, in which former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, Fredrik Reinfeldt, former Prime Minister of Sweden, John Bercow, former Speaker of the British House of Commons, and Franco Frattini, Minister of Foreign Affairs participated. The former Italian Foreign Ministry.
At the beginning of the conference, the President-elect of Iran from the Resistance, Maryam Rajavi, addressed the participants, in which she said:
Over the past year, the US and European governments have shown a great deal of flexibility in reaching an agreement with the Iranian regime. As the regime's envoys reported that the United States was ready to lift many sanctions.
The representative of the European Union participated in the inauguration ceremony of the new president of the regime, despite the reputation of Ibrahim Raisi and his being a serial killer in the massacre of thirty thousand political prisoners in 1988.
But the result was only that the system is active this year on a much larger scale than before, as:
Expanded its nuclear program with the aim of acquiring nuclear weapons.
And in the same year, he installed the serial killer of the massacre of political prisoners in the position of the presidency of the country.
During the same negotiation period, the number of executions doubled compared to last year.
He was also quick to incite war and to equip his mercenary militias in various countries with a range of weapons, including drones. The missiles were repeatedly fired at the US embassy in Baghdad or at US bases in different parts of Iraq.
These events raise an important question: Why do the ruling mullahs respond to Western restraint by instigating war?
Why are they increasingly keen on acquiring the atomic bomb?
What is the main dynamic of creating confusion and chaos?
Why does Khamenei pursue policies that appear to be harmful to the regime in the first place?
The answer to all these questions lies in the fact that the velayat-e faqih regime is on the brink of collapse.
Yes, the great danger that Khamenei is trying to avoid by accepting less serious risks is his overthrow at the hands of the people and their resistance.
For example, in the spring of last year, during the farce of the elections, Khamenei expelled people and currents claiming moderation within the system.
While all these currents are committed to the Wilayat al-Faqih system, their special role for years has been to remove the threat to overthrow the regime.
Their exclusion was undoubtedly a great political loss for the regime. But Khamenei concluded that a slight split at the head of the regime would deal an irreparable blow. Because the system is in the process of falling.
Maryam Rajavi added: The regime publicly disavows investment in improving the livelihood, welfare, health, education, employment and housing of the people.
This situation increases dissatisfaction every day. But Khamenei prefers strengthening his police-military machine to anything else. Because the system is on the line of falling.
As a result, we see that all that the people need from water, bread, electricity, gasoline, housing, and the issue of wages, yes everything, has turned into the material of popular protests.
"Economists believe that the deteriorating economic situation can no longer be controlled," she said.
However, it is wrong to assume that a collapsing economy could become the main factor in plunging the system into the quagmire of downfall.
In fact, this situation is the result of another essential factor: the will of Iranian society to bring down this regime, which has no legitimacy with the Iranian people.
She pointed out more than that, saying: There is a clear hostile relationship between the ruling regime and our people.
The mullahs' dealing with society, the economy, vital resources, the environment, youth, women, and nationalities is far worse and more exotic than an occupying power.
In present-day Iran, the regime treats our people with oppression, bloodshed and murder. And the people speak the language of the uprising and rebellion against the regime.
In the November 2019 uprising, at least 1,500 protestors were killed and thousands arrested by order of Khamenei.
According to regime officials, the uprising attacked 900 regime centers at the time.
On the other hand, the regime's policy towards the spread of the Corona pandemic is one of the most prominent anti-regime policies, as it is only taken by an occupying power. The disease has killed nearly half a million Iranians so far. He is a tenth of the Corona victims worldwide.
From the beginning, Khamenei left the path open for the spread of this disease, with the aim of using it to block the path of popular uprisings.
He also imposed a ban on importing vaccines on the pretext that they are American or British.
This hostility can be seen everywhere. Two weeks ago, the mullahs bombed residential areas in the villages of Balochistan.
They also increased the torture and killing of political prisoners. They implemented a policy of starvation of the people.
Another example is the disaster of the missile bombing by the IRGC on a Ukrainian plane and the killing of 176 innocent people, while the regime still deliberately refuses to provide the slightest explanation to the bereaved families. I declare here that the issue of the downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane must be referred to the UN Security Council, and those responsible and perpetrators must be held accountable and punished, led by Khamenei.
Rajavi added: The crumbling state of the regime is more evident in the ongoing uprisings of different sectors of Iranian society than anywhere else.
The persistence of these uprisings indicates the massive accumulation of intractable political, social and economic problems and the urgent desire of our society for fundamental change.
The continuation of these uprisings also means the impotence of the regime, which has no means to solve the problems of society and therefore has no solution but repression to contain the uprisings, and wants to find a way out for itself by owning an atomic bomb.
Blackmailing the West with nuclear
Maryam Rajavi continues: The bomb, of course, will not be effective in confronting the uprisings. But the regime wants it to blackmail Western governments. Because getting more privileges from Western countries is vital to the mullahs' regime. That is why they prioritized building the bomb over anything else. This is why they practically accepted the collapse of the nuclear deal.
On the eve of World War II, the Nazi Foreign Minister was asked, "Mr. Rieben Tropp, do you want Danzig (a region in Poland) or the Danzig Pass?" "We don't want either of them," Hitler's foreign minister replied. We want war.
Now, if you ask the mullahs, do you want to lift the sanctions or the bomb? To this day, their answer is that we want both.
In the absence of a firm policy, they render the penalties ineffective. They prolong the negotiations to buy time to get the bomb.
In the face of the source of "terrorism", she has paid the price for this struggle, and she has the capacity to bring about change in society.
She emphasized that the Iranian Resistance, by possessing these characteristics, especially with the necessary social support and the authority to bring about democratic change in Iran, was able to thwart fundamentalism intellectually and ideologically inside Iran, and expose it at the regional level.
Maryam Rajavi said: I emphasize the most important aspects of the correct policy that the international community must follow towards the mullahs' regime.
First, the regime's nuclear projects are totally against the national interests of the Iranian people. Negotiating with a regime that does not adhere to any principles and foundations gives this regime only time.
Six UN Security Council resolutions on nuclear projects must be activated.
A complete shutdown of uranium enrichment, the closure of the regime's nuclear sites, and unconditional inspections are necessary to prevent the regime from obtaining an atomic bomb.
Second, the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran must be placed on the agenda of the UN Security Council.
Regime leaders must be brought to justice for crimes against humanity and genocide over four decades, notably the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 and the killing of at least 1,500 protesters in 2019.
All governments and legislatures, especially in Europe, must recognize the 1988 massacre as a crime against humanity and genocide.
This situation has put the world, especially Western governments, to the test.
Western governments have always paid the price for appeasement of religious fascism out of the pockets of the Iranian people.
And they paid the price by remaining silent about human rights abuses in Iran, including the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners.
They also paid the price for this at the expense of the fate of the countries of the Middle East and their inaction regarding the spread of wars by the regime in the region.
Now the vital security interests of Western countries and societies are at risk.
Do Western governments want to arm religious fascism and the central bank of terrorism with nuclear weapons?
For years, the Iranian people and their demands were ignored. Today, the people are the most important factor in determining Iran's future.
In 1977, despite the presence of a large number of advisers in Iran, the United States could not understand the objective reality in Iran, in contrast, Iran was described as an island of stability.
Do the United States and Europe want to repeat the same experience this time as well? We say, correct responsible policy must be taken.
She asked: Why is standing by the Iranian people the only correct, necessary, reliable and future solution?
Because the Iranian people have become resilient in the struggle against the dictatorships of the Shah and the Mullahs. The outcome of their long suffering was crystallized in a historical resistance and a democratic alternative.
Rajavi spoke about the Iranian resistance and its program, saying:
The uprisings and protest movements that surrounded the regime today are moving in the direction opened by this resistance; And that by offering one hundred and twenty thousand martyrs for the freedom of Iran.
The elements of this resistance, despite enduring torture and being subjected to killings, massacres, and many deprivations, said no to religious tyranny and prepared the conditions for the outbreak of the current uprisings.
In parallel with the protest movement, our resistance was able to create an organized network of resistance units in various provinces throughout Iran.
This network paves the way for future uprisings through daily super-repressive activities.
The activity of the resistance units shows the way forward for the uprisings and protest movements and leads them more and more towards the overthrow of the regime.
She added: Our resistance was able, despite the brutal and prolonged repression of the regime, to maintain its independence, both politically and financially. In recent days, Freedom Channel (Simai Azadi) hosted its 26th national advocacy campaign. The donation of financial aid and the outpouring of sentiments of our citizens from different cities of Iran and the world and the supporters of this movement demonstrated the social popularity of this resistance.
The Iranian Resistance, having a popular asset and roots in the heart of Iranian society, and its reliance on a revolutionary youth movement in most provinces, is preparing for the moment to overthrow the regime.
All circumstances are heading towards this moment and the regime cannot escape from it.
The Iranian Resistance, in addition to the self-sacrifice of its men and women, in addition to the organization and cohesion of its ranks, represents the future of a free, democratic and prosperous Iran.
Maryam Rajavi affirmed: Yes, we seek a non-nuclear Iran that lives in peace and coexistence with all countries of the world.
Many people today realize that combating extremism under the banner of Islam requires, above all, acceptance of responsibility on the part of Muslims themselves.
As a result, having an alternative in this regard is crucial. But such an alternative is not just a theoretical solution. Rather, it should depend on the movement:
Third, recognition of the Iranian people's struggle to overthrow this regime and establish democracy and rule by the people in their country. This is the inalienable right of the Iranian people.
At the end of her speech, Maryam Rajavi said: We are on the cusp of the anniversary of January 20, 1979. It is the day of the liberation of the last group of political prisoners in the Shah's dictatorship, and the leader of the resistance, Massoud Rajavi, was one of them. Since the beginning of the antichrist Khomeini’s arrival in Iran, Massoud Rajavi founded and led a movement to stand up to the beast of religious tyranny for more than 40 years, and organized a resistance that expanded the uprisings and protests and raised the morale of the people despite the pressure and brutal repressions.
We are convinced of the victory of this path, that is, the path of resistance to the freedom of the Iranian people.
This is a development that promotes freedom, democracy and peace throughout the world.