Commenting on the resolution, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance, said: The adoption of this resolution, the 35th condemning the ruling religious, terrorist dictatorship by a U.N. organ, reaffirms the illegitimacy and irreformability of the regime in its entirety. A fact to which, the large gatherings of Iranians abroad, including the 15,000 strong meeting in Dortmund to hear the speech by the Resistance's President-elect, and the extensive activities of the citizenry inside Iran in support of the Iranian Resistance last June, attested.
Mr. Rajavi added: The international community's expression of abhorrence at this medieval regime's human rights abuses in Iran and its export of terrorism and violation of international laws and resolutions is quite necessary. But in and of itself is not sufficient. The mullahs take maximum advantage of the international community's inaction towards their crimes. The time has come, therefore, that the U.N. Security Council earnestly place on its agenda the adoption of binding decisions and specific punishments, including a comprehensive oil, arms and technological embargo of this anti-human regime.
The Sub-Commission's resolution "condemns" the "excessive use of the death penalty," the "numerous cases of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment," "the use of excessive force and guns in suppressing public demonstrations" and "harassment and intimidation of people by street patrols."
The resolution, another irrefutable document condemning the regime by the international community, takes note of the regime's involvement in terrorism and "active spying on Iranian refugees" in Germany and calls for an "inquiry into the assassination abroad on 17 May and 10 July 1995 of five members of the Iranian resistance" which involved agents of the mullahs' regime.
It should be noted that terrorists dispatched by the mullahs killed three members of the Mojahedin on July 10, and Mrs. Effat Haddad, member of the National Council of Resistance, and Mrs. Fereshteh Esfandiari, a public relations official of the Mojahedin, on May 17 in Baghdad.
The resolution expresses "concern" "over the fate of hundreds of people arrested during the demonstrations of 4 April 1995 in south Tehran" and "the repression by the security forces of peaceful demonstrators." It also expresses the international community dismay at "the continued repression of women" including "the practice of gender-based discrimination" against them as well as the intimidation and harassment of the religious minorities, in particular "the assassination of three Christian leaders."
The resolution also calls for the "return for trial in Switzerland of two persons accused of the murder of Professor Kazem Rajavi," the great advocate of human rights in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance - Paris August 24, 1995
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