234 members of national parliaments in Europe sponsored a rally in Paris in support of democratic change in Iran. In a statement entitled "No to appeasement of the mullahs, No to nuclear bomb for religious dictatorship, Yes to democratic change in Iran," the MPs gave their support to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the NCRI. The rally was attended by 30,000 supporters of the Iranian Resistance on Saturday, July 1, where several distinguished Figures from across the world addressed the crowd. The text of statement is as follows:

No to appeasement of the mullahs,
No to nuclear bomb for religious dictatorship,
Yes to democratic change in Iran

Violations in human rights in Iran have worsened since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was made president last year. The mullahs have acknowledged that at least 250 people have been hanged or condemned to death in nine months. Over 120,000 political opponents have been executed since the theocratic regime stole power. Arbitrary arrests and the torture of dissidents and human rights activists, students, ethnic and religious minorities continue.

Uprisings and protests are answered with barbaric assaults. Angry uprisings in the Azeri-speaking provinces in May, the Tehran transit workers strike, anti-government demonstrations by women, workers, teachers and others have been brutally suppressed. But there were more than 4,100 demonstrations, protests and strikes last year. These reflect the desire of millions of people to establish a secular democracy.

As popular dissent grows the mullahs ratchet up efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, breaching its obligations and calls by the international community. Now the whole world is concerned.
The mullahs step up efforts to block the path to democracy in Iraq, to use it as a springboard for the export of fundamentalism and to establish a regional Islamic empire.

We agree with Mrs Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, that the solution is neither war nor appeasement. There is an Iranian solution: democratic change by the people of Iran and their Resistance.

Our government and those of other EU members, must now abandon attempts to appease the mullahs with economic trade and other so-called incentives. Iran’s nuclear obligations are binding, not negotiable. What is now needed is a firm policy of targeted sanctions and declared support for the Iranian Resistance and the millions demanding democracy and human rights.

The unjustified proscription of the PMOI, a member of the Resistance coalition with no record of harmful action against British or Western interests, is a barrier to democratic change in Iran. It allows the mullahs to claim that the UK and EU are on their side rather than backing the millions from whom they have stolen freedom. The proscription must end.

We, the undersigned, send our support to those thousands of Iran’s exiles who in Paris on 1 July will cry freedom. Together with millions inside Iran we say no to nuclear weapons and no to the use of force to oblige the mullahs to honour their nuclear obligations. We strongly support democratic change to enable Iran to become a partner for peace rather than a menacing international pariah.