NCR urges Vatican to prevent the Khomeini regime from misusing religion

On Tuesday, October 29, 1996, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Secretary of State of the Vatican, received mullah Emami Kashani, a key official of the brutal Tehran regime. The spokesman for the mullahs regime embassy in the Vatican City said the meeting addressed "relations between Moslems and Christians," and described it as "constructive."

Negotiations between the Vatican and one of the officials of Tehran, took place only two weeks after the Khomeini regime's operatives murdered Mr. Mohammad Bagher Youssefi, known as Mohammad Ravanbakhsh, an Iranian Christian priest in Ghaemshahr (Mazandaran province), the seventh of such killings. On his way home, Mr. Ravanbakhsh was kidnapped by the regime's agents and was hanged in a remote area.

The mullahs who had not previously succeeded in whitewashing their bloody trace in the murder of Christian priests, and in beguiling the public, will undoubtedly try to misuse the Vatican meeting to cover their crimes. They will also use it to further suppress the Christian community in Iran.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran, denounces the shaking of the bloody hands of the mullahs ruling Iran. The NCR urges the Vatican officials, as leaders of Christianity, to stand firm against the ploys of the ruling clerics who do nothing but selling out the religion, and to prevent them from using the God and religion to justify their anti-human crimes.

Committee of Denominations and Freedom of Religion,
National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
November 1, 1996

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