Mr. Rajavi: 38th UN resolution condemning mullahs necessitates referring regime's rights record to Security Council

Few hours ago, in a strongly-worded resolution, the forty-eighth session of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities condemned the flagrant violation of human rights, including "the increase in the wave of political executions," and "continued repression of women, including the practice of gender-discrimination" in Iran and "the increase in the number of murders of members of the opposition abroad in recent months."

Welcoming the adoption of this resolution, the 38th UN document censuring the clerical regime's rights abuses and export of terrorism, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said: International condemnation of Khomeini's anti-human regime is quite important and necessary. However, the time has now come for the world community to expeditiously refer the abysmal human rights record of Tehran's rulers to the United Nations Security Council for adopting binding decisions and instituting specific punishments against this medieval regime.

Mr. Rajavi added: The international community's successive condemnations of the mullahs leave no room for continuing the placating policies toward this regime. He specifically urged the European countries to abandon the policy of critical dialogue, that runs counter to the highest interests of the Iranian people, and join the trade sanctions against the most barbaric dictatorship in the contemporary era.

One of the strongest UN documents in recent years, the Sub-Commission's resolution specifically and for the first time expressed deep concern over the clerical regime's schemes aimed a compelling Iranian refugees to cooperate with the Intelligence Ministry against the Iranian Resistance as well as over "rocket attacks against Iranian opponents' bases on the territory of neighboring countries."

Two weeks ago, the mullahs' terrorists attacked an Iranian Resistance base camp on Iraqi soil with 107mm rockets. It was the 41st terrorist assault on the Resistance's bases in Iraq since 1993.

Noting that Judicial investigations, including those in "Germany, Italy and Turkey, have underlined the role and responsibility of Iranian officials and services in planning of extrajudicial political murders," the resolution demands that the mullahs' regime take immediate steps to end excessive executions, "torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment," "religious discrimination" and "restriction on freedom of expression and freedom of opinion and undue limitation of freedom of the press, extrajudicial murders of political opponents" and State-sponsored terrorism.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
August 20,, 1996

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