Maryam Rajavi’s message to Berlin conference for democracy in Iran

Berlin

German political dignitaries and members of the Bundestag last week held a conference in Berlin in solidarity with the cause of the Iranian Resistance to bring freedom, democracy and human rights to Iran.

The conference, held on October 13, 2015, was chaired by Mr. Otto Bernhardt, President of the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran. Mrs. Rita Süssmuth, former speaker of the Bundestag, was among the panelists.

In a message to the conference, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi said:

My warmest greetings to your invaluable conference on the tenth anniversary of the formation of the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran. I would like to extend my gratitude to the founders and leaders of this committee who have advocated the right policy on the greatest threat to the Middle East and the world today, namely the religious fascism ruling Iran.

Ten years past the formation of this committee, Germany's history and collective conscience of its people judge whether it was right to appease and embolden Iran's religious dictatorship to impede the path of freedom and progress in Iranian society and engulf the Middle East in blood. Or the right approach was the pioneering policy of the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran that finds the future of Iran including the true blossoming of Iran-Germany relations in supporting the Iranian people's Resistance?

Was it right to give concessions to the mullahs and turn a blind eye on the regime's savagery and barbarism that destroyed Iran's economy so much that it is not capable of attracting foreign investment even now after the sanctions are lifted, or the right thing to do was the committee's staunch defense of freedom and democracy in Iran as the only path to peace and stability in the entire region?

The Committee's endeavors in defending PMOI (MEK) members in Camp Ashraf and CampLiberty in the face of continued attacks by the Iranian regime's operatives, including six massacres in recent years, and its incessant struggle for human rights and freedom in Iran constitute an exemplary courageous struggle in circumstances that long-term interests of the two nations of Iran and Germany were being sacrificed for petty political interests.