The 41-page report that the State Department produced three years ago against the Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance, full of lies and distortions as it was, changed nothing but did arouse the outrage of the Iranian people and drew much protest from the U.S. media and the elected representatives of the American people.
The Iranian Resistance has responded in detail and with a plethora of evidence and documents to all these accusations in the past. It is therefore sufficient to reiterate the following points:
1. In its 32 years of existence, the Mojahedin Organization has always enjoyed the unsparing moral and material support of the Iranian people. The fact that the mullahs' regime has executed 100,000 members and supporters of this organization is the best proof of the extent of the movement's popular support and its financial and political independence.
The Mojahedin Organization has never been engaged in any fundraising activity in the United States. The State Department's recent action, said to be focused on fundraising, is therefore irrelevant and pointless as far as the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran is concerned. The Mojahedin will take legal action against the charge of terrorism through the appropriate legal and judicial channels in the United States of America.
2. The Los Angeles Times reported on October 9, "one senior Clinton administration official said inclusion of the People's Moujahedeen was intended as a goodwill gesture to Tehran and its newly elected moderate president, Mohammad Khatami."
Such remarks come barely a month after the statement by the mullahs' Foreign Minister calling for a change "in the behavior of the U.S.," adding that "it is up to the Americans to decide whether or not they are prepared to accept the realities of Iran." This leaves no ambiguity as to why the accusation of terrorism has been repeated against the Mojahedin.
3. The State Department's recent action comes only three months after the statement last July by a majority of members of the United States House of Representatives in which they declared that "Support for advocates of democracy such as the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi would contribute to peace and stability in the region. This resistance has called for free and fair elections under the auspices of the United Nations and the creation of a democratic, secular, pluralist government."
Which one are we to believe? And who is the real terrorist? The mullahs ruling Iran or the Mojahedin? A clear majority of the representatives of the American people and the people of Iran have passed their definitive judgment.
4. Five years ago, after being elected as President of the United States, President Clinton emphasized in a letter to the Leader of the Iranian Resistance, Mr. Massoud Rajavi: "The United States foreign policy cannot be divorced from the moral principles most Americans share."
Repeating the accusation of terrorism against the Mojahedin and combatants of freedom in Iran is astonishingly divorced from "the moral principles most Americans share." Ironically, however, it testifies to the independence and strength of the Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance.
5. The backers of the 1953 coup d'état against the nationalist and democratic government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq and the remnants of the Irangate debacle in the U.S. State Department intend to send a goodwill gesture to the mullahs ruling Iran, particularly their new President, at the expense of the Mojahedin. They must take note of the fact that during the Reagan or the Bush administrations, no "moderate" and no "goodwill" whatsoever was found within the clerical regime. The efforts this time will be no more successful than the previous futile approaches. The power struggle within the triumvirate leadership and escalation of the mullahs' infighting, air strikes against the bases of the National Liberation Army along the Iran-Iraq frontier and other terrorist operations against the Mojahedin reflect the clerical regime's weakness and are reminiscent of the unraveling of the shah's regime in its final phase.
6. As indicated by the resolution of the National Council of Resistance of Iran last week, the People's Mojahedin of Iran and the majority of the Iranian people believe that all factions within the theocracy ruling Iran, including Khatami's, share the same views and interests as far as suppressing the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people and exporting terrorism and fundamentalism are concerned.
There remains no recourse other than resistance in order to transfer power to the Iranian people by overthrowing this regime, which has been condemned 40 times so far by different United Nations bodies for its flagrant violation of human rights and export of terrorism and fundamentalism. The mullahs themselves have imposed this on the Iranian people and the People's Mojahedin of Iran.
7. National Council of Resistance President Massoud Rajavi has on many occasions declared the readiness of the Iranian Resistance to take part in free elections for president and a constitutional assembly based on the sovereignty of the Iranian people and under the auspices of the United Nations.
8. On November 6, 1994, five days after the publication of the State Department's report against the Mojahedin, the Tehran regime targeted a basecamp of the National Liberation Army with three 6.5-ton Scud-B missiles. We, therefore, warn that 10 days after the Iranian Air Force flew through the no-fly zone to bomb two NLA bases, the mullahs will view a repeat of the accusation of terrorism against the Mojahedin as another green light to launch further air raids and use weapons of mass destruction. Should this happen, the U.S. State Department's responsibility will indeed be undeniable.
9. Unimpressed by the illusion being propagated about the moderation of the clerical regime, the Mojahedin will continue their struggle in the framework of the sole democratic alternative to this regime, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. In this path, they welcome the friendship of all nations, governments, groups and personalities who respect the legitimate rights of the Iranian people for democracy and independence.
Press Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Washington, DC
October 10, 1997
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