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Maryam Rajavi meets British MP |
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Thursday, 31 March 2005 |
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, met and
held talks with Mr. David Amess, a Member of Parliament from Britain,
at her residence in Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris.
Mr. Amess offered his greetings to Mrs. Rajavi on the occasion of the
Persian New Year. The MP for Southend West and Parliamentary Private
Secretary to the Secretary of Defence in the last Conservative
government was also a panelist in the recent Symposium of
Parliamentarians and Jurists in London. He said the presence of so many
Parliamentarians and well-known jurists and lawyers in the symposium
and their call for the removal of the People's Mojahedin of Iran from
the terrorist list was a very encouraging sign for all those in Britain
who support the Iranian Resistance and want to see and end to mullahs'
tyranny.
Mr. Amess expressed confidence that such a broad consensus among
Parliamentarians and jurists would convince the British government that
the time had come to remove the terror tag on the PMOI.
Mr. Amess, who has been a member of the House of Commons since 1983 and
has held senior positions in his party, criticized the current
government's policy towards the mullahs' regime. He said it was
"scandalous" for Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to visit Iran five times,
currying favour with the ruling ayatollahs instead of condemning the
Iranian regime's brutal repression, support for terrorism and nuclear
ambitions.
"We have been sending the wrong signal to Tehran by caving in to
mullahs' demands and putting the PMOI on our terrorism list at the
behest of Tehran," he said.
Mr. Amess said fresh developments in the region and across the globe
put wind behind the sails of the Iranian people's desire to end
religious dictatorship and establish a democratic government in Iran.
Recalling the disastrous results of the appeasement of Hitler by the
British and French governments in the 1930s, Mr. Amess said, "We should
not allow that mistake to be repeated one more time with the mullahs."
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