In a message on the 22nd anniversary of the massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, called for the establishment of an international tribunal to put on trial the criminals responsible for the massacre.

Mrs. Rajavi said: According to all the evidence and on the basis of opinions submitted by international jurists and stipulations of human rights organizations, this massacre was a flagrant example of both crimes against humanity as well as genocide. This is because its main objective was to eradicate a specific sociopolitical movement that harbored a particular belief, namely in a democratic and tolerant Islam.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi welcomed new complementary sanctions by the European Union against the Iranian regime. She said that although these sanctions are crucial to prevent the regime from acquiring nuclear weapons, but, it is long way away from a comprehensive and effective sanction to include complete oil, trade, technological and political boycott of the regime.

She added: Foreign trade and oil industry in Iran are basically in the hands of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and a very limited section of the regime’s officials and their families. In the past three decades, hundreds of billions of dollars of oil revenue have been used just to keep the regime in power. It has been spent on security and suppressive forces, export of terrorism and fundamentalism, nuclear projects, or deposited in the accounts of the regime’s officials. This money has not been used for the development and progress of the country or public services and people’s comfort.

Maryam Rajavi: Economic and political relations with such a regime must be contingent upon cessation of executions and cruel punishments in Iran

The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, described the cutting off of the hands of five young prisoners in the western city of Hamedan in Iran as a new record in cruelty and brutality for a faltering regime that sees the intensification of suppression and terror as the only way to deal with growing public disenchantment. Mrs. Rajavi added that the leaders of the religious fascism know that the moment they halt their wave of crimes, they will be removed by the arisen people of Iran forever.

Text of speech of Mrs Maryam Rajavi 
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
17 July 2010

Dear compatriots,
People of Ashraf,
Friends of the Resistance,

The terrorist listing of the PMOI in the United States, acting as a major obstacle in the path of the Iranian resistance, suffered a major blow with your efforts and determination.

Now, we have to compel the US State Department and Western governments to respect the will of the Iranian people to overthrow the clerical regime.

In our judicial and international campaign, this is a stunning victory.

I congratulate you, the friends and supporters of the Resistance across the world.

Of course, before anyone, we must congratulate the freedom-seeking people of Ashraf.

Congratulations to those who have risen in Iran and the people of Iran whose just resistance was blocked by the shameful label and it is still acting as an obstacle.

And, congratulations to Massoud Rajavi, Leader of the Resistance, who said fight to remove the absurd terror label is a fight destined to win.