In a gathering of NLA combatants, Maryam Rajavi says NLA will sweep aside mullahs' regime before end of 20th century
- Massoud Rajavi urges G7 to impose trade, diplomatic sanctions against mullahs
- Speeches broadcast by 11 satellite channels across Iran and the world

In a speech to a gathering of NLA combatants at a base camp of the National Liberation Army of Iran, broadcast live by 11 satellite channels across Iran, Europe, the United States, the Middle East and parts of Asia, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, said: Trampling upon the people's sovereignty, exporting terrorism and practicing misogyny are embedded in the nature and the constitution of this regime. The NLA will sweep aside the mullahs' religious dictatorship and all its different factions. The Iranian nation's will to achieve democracy, peace and social justice will come to fruition before the end of the 20th century.

This elaborate gathering was held to honor June 20, the anniversary of the launching of the Iranian Resistance, and the founding of the National Liberation Army of Iran.

Addressing the meeting, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance and the NLA's Commander in Chief, said: After Khatami's election that has led to a troika leadership in the regime, the mullahs are even more divided and have lost their balance. This medieval dictatorship is absolutely incapable of reform and these developments will speed up its inevitable overthrow and trend of events in the Resistance's favor.

He added: The political and publicity activities of the Resistance's forces inside Iran to honor June 20 and in support of the NLA and the NCR have taken on extensive dimensions in 180 cities and tripled relative to the past year.

In a satellite link-up, 20,000 Iranians in Germany and 8,000 in Sweden, as well as 7,000 Iranians in Denver, rallying across from the Summit of the leaders of the seven industrialized countries, watched the speech of the leadership of the Iranian Resistance directly on wide-screens. They called for a complete boycott of the clerical regime and stated their support for the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi.

In his 90 minute speech, frequently interrupted by stormy applause from NLA's combatants and Iranians abroad, Mr. Rajavi stressed that the only means available to the mullahs to continue their rule is suppression and export of terrorism. He called on the G7 leaders to impose diplomatic and trade sanctions against the Iranian regime and demanded that its human rights abuses and terrorism be referred to the UN Security Council for the adoption of binding decisions.

He said: The boycott of the regime's sham presidential elections by more than 80% of Iranians reflected their desire to overthrow this illegitimate regime. Mr. Rajavi added: The mullahs' new president was the Minister of ÒGuidanceÓ for 10 years and a party to suppression, torture and massacre of Iranians. He has frequently said that the regime's survival depended on Òexpansion,Ó namely the export of fundamentalism. Describing the primary mandate of his Ministry as Òexport of revolution,Ó he declared in 1986 that the Ministry had organized 30 centers for exporting revolution across the world. In 1989, he said that the only solution to the Rushdie problem was to execute him.

At the Denver gathering, Democratic Congressman Gary Ackerman, a senior member of the Committee on International Relations of the US House of Representatives, made a speech. In Germany, a number of members of the Federal Parliament, including Mr. Joachim Tappe and Mrs. Ingrid Holzter, and in Sweden, several parliamentarians from Sweden, Denmark and Norway, addressed the gatherings and declared their solidarity for the demands of the participants, namely support for the Iranian Resistance.

In the gatherings in Germany and Sweden, a group of renowned Iranian and international music stars staged performances.

Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Baghdad
June 20, 1997

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