Dear Friends,
I am deeply grateful for the remarks by the conference chairman as well as the attention and support each and every one of you has given to the residents of Camp Ashraf.
The subject of this conference is the clerical regime’s attempts to annihilate its main opposition, as part of a malevolent policy adopted by the mullahs to preserve their fragile hold on power.
With 43 hangings in the first 20 days of the New Year, the mullahs have set a new record. More people are on death row.
The mullahs have also sentenced three prisoners and supporters of the PMOI to death by hanging.
The regime’s officials have announced the arrest of 32 active members of the PMOI on charges of leading the 2009 uprisings.
This is to set the stage for more criminal rulings.

Honorable mayors,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear friends,

Happy New Year to all.

I wish you and all the people of France a year full of joy, health and success. Last year the world has experienced many pains but also many joys. When young people in the Middle East, Syria and Ashraf fell for freedom, these were days of sadness and when dictators fell, these were days of joy for all who fight for freedom around the world.
This year, we had a great pain of losing Madam Mitterrand, great advocat of human rights, but its values are still alive.

But our world is moving towards freedom and happiness because there are men and women who want change. And it is the spirit of the feast of the New Year.

For Iran, last year, the perseverance of Ashraf residents and the campaign in defense of Ashraf were the driving force behind the struggle for freedom and human rights.
The deadline to close Ashraf December 31 was postponed until April and it's a great achievement.

The mullahs who wanted to massacre the Ashraf residents had a harsh defeat. A memorandum of understanding was signed between the UN and Iraq to relocate Ashraf residents to Camp Liberty, a suburb of Baghdad, where the UN has pledged daily monitoring, where the U.S. has promised to regularly send observers, and where the High Commissioner for Refugees will began its work to send Ashraf residents to third countries.
As a goodwill gesture, a first team agreed to leave Ashraf for Camp Liberty with its vehicles and personal assets and required a minimum guarantee for their protection.

Prestigious guests and respected friends,

Today is Human Rights Day. It is the sixty-third anniversary of the day the United Nations General Assembly declared the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a “common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.”

We honor the memory of all the brave women and men who fought for this ideal.

Today we can hear the voice of Professor Kazem Rajavi, the Iranian martyr to the cause of human rights, who once said that we write the true history of human rights with our blood.

Brave heroines and heroes, such as 120,000 Iranians who were murdered by the mullahs in Iran in the past three decades, including 30000  brave political prisoners who were massacred in 1988.
 They have made human rights a progressive cause.

Mr. Chairman
Ladies and Gentlemen
Good morning,

This conference is being held while the mullahs in Iran and the Iraqi government have started the countdown to a bloody massacre of Camp Ashraf.

Their main demand is the forcible relocation of the residents to close Ashraf by 31st of December.

This is according to a 7 point agreement between the Iranian regime and the Iraqi government.

Briefly the plan is: the forcible relocation of the residents to various regions in Iraq and their massacre,
as experienced during the Nazi era and in Bosnia.

I have come today to the capital of Europe to ask the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and its High Representative to use their power and good offices to prevent a crime against humanity.

I, therefore, would like to request the session of Council of Foreign Ministers which will be held tomorrow, to

• firmly oppose the relocation of the residents,
• demand the extension of the deadline
for closing Ashraf,
• and to accept any number of ill and wounded residents, in their countries.