MEK PRESENCE IN THE MASSIVE EVENT ROUSED IRE OF IRAN REHIME

 Pejman Amiri

  Published: 04 July 2017

A massive gathering of the Iranian diaspora was held in Villepinte Exhibition Centre, near Paris, on Saturday, July 1, 2017 to show their support for PMOI / MEK, the main opposition to the Iranian regime and advocating adoption of a firm approach toward the theocratic regime in Iran.

The gathering presented a large number of political dignitary speakers from all over the world, including from the U.S. Congress and personalities close to the current U.S. administration. They all were coherent in their support for MEK and calling for a regime change in Iran.

The keynote speaker was Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president elect of the Iranian Resistance coalition-NCRI, with MEK as its main member. She first hailed MEK by saying that: “Last year this time, the religious dictatorship ruling Iran was launching missiles at Camp Liberty to slaughter the members of the MEK. Now, with their victorious relocation from Camp Liberty Prison in Iraq to Albania, it is the Resistance that is advancing and on the offensive vis-à-vis the regime. We are all jubilant and proud to have MEK members and officials in Albania joining us in this gathering just now.” Referring to the failed policy of appeasement toward Tehran, She said,” Would giving concessions ever change the behaviour of this regime? The answer is NO. This is something that has been already tested repeatedly for the past three decades by the US and Europe. And is it possible to contain this regime? NO, the policy has been called containment, but in effect, it does nothing but obstructing the adoption of a firm policy against the regime. The conclusion is what the Iranian Resistance has emphasized since the outset and many in the world have reached today: The solution, and the only solution, is regime change…” the regime’s overthrow is possible and within reach. Because the regime is besieged by extensive social discontent. As one of the commanders of the State Security Force has acknowledged, nearly 11,000 protests and demonstrations took place in Iran last year.”

The MEK’s massively attended conventions held in free countries are shock to the Iranian regime because apart from voicing the Iranian grassroots inside Iran, they foil the Iranian propaganda that MEK has no root or support within Iran. MEK supporters argue when people are not free in Iran to express their political choice, these major meetings of the opposition outside Iran are indicative of the Iranian popular support for the MEK and the Iranian Resistance.

NCRI and MEK supporters say their organization is the most influential on the Iranian opposition landscape.