Recalling the EU's futile experience last spring to revoke the death decree against Salman Rushdie, Mr. Rajavi underlined the mullahs' deceitful policy of "creating false hopes among western nations to prevent European countries from joining the US sanctions."
The NCR President added: The European community's demand today that the Khomeini regime condemn terrorism and the criminal explosions in Israel is of the same nature. In a country where the massacre of innocent people is described as "divine retribution," one cannot expect but a negative response wrapped in deceit and "obfuscation."
Mr. Rajavi also cited a report by the German daily Die Welt, according to which "the Tehran government has already signaled that it will discuss terrorism only if the European Union condemns that activities of the People's Mojahedin." He emphasized: Having been condemned 36 times in the past 15 years in resolutions by the United Nations for its violation of the most rudimentary rights of the Iranian people and export of terrorism, the mullahs' regime accuses the Iranian people's just Resistance for peace and democracy of terrorism instead of rendering accountability for its crimes. This is to beguile the international community. Although such a balancing act in and of itself reveals the depth of the clerics' desperation in their confrontation with the Iranian Resistance.
Mr. Rajavi proposed that in order to ascertain the extent of the mullahs' involvement in international terrorism, the troika representatives should ask the regime whether it is willing to turn over its Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian to the judicial authorities in Germany and Austria where he is charged with involvement in terrorist crimes against Iranian citizens? Is it willing to surrender to the Swiss judiciary the 13 agents of its official services who were indicted five years ago by the Swiss Magistrate for their role in the assassination of Professor Kazem Rajavi, a universally renowned human rights activist? Is it willing to hand over to the French judiciary its former deputy minister of post and telegraph condemned in absentia for his role in the murder of the shah's last prime minister? And finally, is it willing to reveal its contacts with the terrorist groups involved in the assassination of 30 anti-fundamentalist Turkish personalities and in the kidnapping of eight Iranian exiles?
Emphasizing that the mullahs' regime does not in any way represent the people of Iran, Mr. Rajavi added: Economic investment in the mullahs' bankrupt regime has proven futile and will only bring loss for the regime's international interlocutors.
The NCR President stressed that any form of appeasement of the mullahs' regime not only emboldens it to continue domestic suppression and export terrorism and fundamentalism, but it is also a blatant snub to democratic laws and values. Mr. Rajavi called on the European Union to adopt a decisive policy and not allow the mullahs to take any further advantage of their diplomatic relations with and assistance by the European countries to advance their expansionist and fundamentalist policies.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris April 1, 1996
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