In a move
that must frustrate the Iranian regime and its mullahs, the National Council of
Resistance of Iran (NCRI) President-elect Maryam Rajavi hosted a senior Senate delegation from
the United States on August 12, 2017. The meeting was held in the Albanian
capital of Tirana. During the gathering, the two groups discussed the current
situation of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Albania,
the latest developments in Iran and the Middle East, and solutions to end the
current crisis sweeping that region.
The Senate delegation was
comprised of Senators Roy Blunt, Vice President of the Republican Conference,
and member of the Appropriation, Select Intelligence, Rules and Administration,
and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees; John Cornyn, the Majority
Whip, and a member of the Judiciary, Select Intelligence, and Finance
committees; and Thom Tillis, a member of the Armed Services, Judiciary, Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs and Veterans’ Affairs committees.
The meeting was initiated by
Senator Roy Blunt, who led the delegation in congratulating the MEK for the
safe and secure relocation of all Camp Liberty residents out of Iraq. They also
wished the group well in its efforts to secure democracy and human rights in
Iran.
Mrs. Rajavi, after thanking the senators for
their decisive position on the Iranian regime, emphasized that contrary to the
propaganda by the Iranian regime’s apologists, the ruling theocracy was rotten
to the core and very fragile. Without foreign support, especially the policy of
appeasement pursued in the U.S. and Europe, it would not have survived so long.
She added that regime change in Iran is necessary and a viable and democratic
alternative exists that could make a successful regime change possible. Mrs.
Rajavi said equating regime change by the Iranian people for democracy with war
and instability in the region is a sheer lie, the source of which is the
Iranian regime’s lobby in western capitals. They demagogically turn the truth
on its head, she noted, adding that the overthrow of the Tehran regime was a
prerequisite to ending crisis and war in the Middle East.
As
part of the meeting, some steps that the NCRI believes necessary for the
international community to undertake regarding Iran were discussed. These
included imposing comprehensive sanctions on the Iranian regime’s banking and
oil sector, expelling the IRGC and its affiliated militias from the Middle
East, and taking urgent steps to punish the regime for the 1988 massacre of
30,000 political prisoners.
The
Senate delegation also met with MEK members that witnessed or were victims of
the regime in Iran and within Iraq at Camps Liberty and Ashraf.
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