PARIS, November 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
On Friday, November 15th, nineteen members of the Jordanian parliament met with Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, at the organization's Paris headquarters. There they presented Mrs. Rajavi with a declaration of that country's parliament majority in expressing their support for the immediate release of seven individuals taken hostage after the Iraqi government's attack upon Iranian exiles at Camp Ashraf. The Jordanians' statement also reiterated Mrs. Rajavi's insistence that the international community provide security provisions for Camp Ashraf residents now living in refuge at Camp Liberty outside of Baghdad.
This statement, signed by more than eighty percent of Jordanian lawmakers, is part of a growing chorus of international outcry against the Iraqi government's massacre of members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The major attack, which took place on September 1st, resulted in the death of 52 Camp Ashraf residents, in addition to the abduction and political imprisonment of six women and one man.
Members of the European Parliament and a collective of US lawmakers are among those who have already issued statements decrying the atrocity. They have called for urgent measures to immediately release the seven Ashraf hostages by Government of Iraq and guarantee Liberty's security through deployment of UN Blue Helmets
The statement by majority members of Jordanian lawmakers also endorsed the program for the future of Iran announced by Mrs. Rajavi.
The Jordanian lawmakers who delivered the declaration to Mrs. Rajavi in Paris included Nareman al-Rousan, former deputy speaker of parliament; Mamdouh al-Abbadi, former deputy speaker of parliament, Minister of Health, and former mayor of Amman; and Basam al-Manasir, foreign affairs committee chairman.
These individuals and numerous other members of parliament expressed their solidarity with hunger strikes taking place in Camp Liberty and in five countries. The November 15th visit marked the 76th day of these protests, which are aimed at calling attention to inaction by the US and UN and urging them to live up to their commitments to provide safety and security to Iranian exiles in Iraq.The Jordanian lawmakers urged Arabic and Islamic countries to condemn Maliki's atrocities and to defend PMOI members.
They underscored the fact that U.S. ought not to sacrifice neither the PMOI, the organized and legitimate opposition to mullahs' regime, nor the Arab countries by offering concessions to the clerical regime in its negotiations with the Iranian regime and should not negotiate with the Iranian regime on its nuclear program while turning a blind eye to regime's meddling in Arab countries and massacre of the people and its opposition.
Lawmakers emphasized that five months after Iranian regime's sham elections and three and a half months into Rouhani's assumption of power, no sign of change is seen within this regime. The situation of human rights has further aggravated, meddling in the region has witnessed a surge, and according to recent testimony by the International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclear projects are advancing at previous paces.
In a statement following the visit of Jordanian parliamentarians,Mrs. Rajavi stated:
future of the region depends on the outcome of conflict between the regime of Velayat-e faqih and its cohorts on the one hand and people and countries of the region on the other. She added that daily explosions in Iraq, fanning the war in Syria, introducing schism and all kinds of terrorist instigations in Arab and Muslim countries, are all guided from Tehran. Iranian regime's missile system targets Arab capitals rather than Tel Aviv, London or Washington; much like the fact that the objective of the regime in achieving nuclear weapons capability is to dominate the Arab and Islamic world before all else.
She stressed that the principal confrontation in this region is not between Shiites and Sunnis, Muslims and non-Muslims, Arabs and non-Arabs, or East and West, it is rather between the regime of Velayat-e faqih on the one hand and people and countries of the region on the other. She described establishing the front against fundamentalism as the solution to confronting this predicament.
Maryam Rajavi said that this front can and must rid the region of the mullahs' ruling Iran which is also the best assistance to the wishes of Iranian people to free themselves from the evil of mullahs and attain freedom. She said: Mullahs are greatly dread such a front and therefore in their diplomatic relations have time and again declared establishment of any relations with PMOI as their red line because they know all too well that solidarity of countries and states in the region with PMOI will quickly lead to the formation of just such a front.
