Iranian Resistance denounces Velayati-Kinkel meeting

The National Council of Resistance denounces the meeting between Mr. Klaus Kinkel, the German Foreign Minister, and Ali Akbar Velayati, the Foreign Minister of the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship. Shaking hands with the criminal officials of this regime is against the best interests of the Iranian people who strive for the overthrow of the mullahs and establishment of democracy in their homeland.

The policy of critical dialogue is already discredited with its consequences, only emboldening the regime in its continued suppression in the country and export of terrorism abroad. The notion of "a dialogue which could be judged by its results," does not change anything either.

Since the coining of the above mentioned phrase in the April '96 session of the foreign minister of the European Union, the regime's Ministry of Intelligence has murdered three Iranian dissidents in foreign countries. One of the terrorists in imprisoned for extradition in Germany. The German Federal Court has accused the regime's Minister of Intelligence, himself, of having issued the order for the Mykonous murder (Berlin, 1992).

The fatwa for the murder of Salman Rushdie is still binding. Domestic suppression has been tightened up and in many cases disguised in the form of laws. The U.N. Sub Commission on the prevention of discrimination and protection of religious minorities strongly condemned the regime for its increasing violations of human rights just this past August.

The regime continues to oppose and sabotage the peace process in the Middle East.

Representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran-Germany
September 26, 1996

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