United
States President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed new sanctions into law along
with measures against Russia and North Korea.
The
sanctions measures passed in Congress last week in response to Iran's missile
development program and human rights abuses.
TheNational Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) on Wednesday welcomed the signing
into law of legislation imposing the new sanctions.
In a
statement, the NCRI called for the new law to be "implemented immediately,
meticulously and without exception." It urged the European Union to align
itself with these sanctions.
"The
expulsion of the IRGC and its affiliated militias from the Middle East, in particular
from Syria and Iraq, is indispensable to the enactment of this law and a
prerequisite to ending the conflict and crisis that have engulfed the entire
region," the NCRI said.
"The
terrorist designation and sanctions against the IRGC should have taken place a
long time ago since the IRGC protects the entirety of the clerical regime. It
also acts as the regime’s main instrument of suppression and export of
terrorism and extremism. However, the policy of appeasing the mullahs’
religious dictatorship paved the way for rampage in the entire region by the
IRGC and its proxies."
After the
US Senate adopted the sanctions bill last week, NCRI President Maryam Rajavistated: “The full implementation of these sanctions against the clerical regime
must be completed with urgent actions against officials in charge of
executions, torture and particularly the massacre of political prisoners in
1988. Topping the list is Ali Khamenei, the mullahs’ supreme leader. They must
face justice for 38 years of crimes against humanity. Recognition of the
Iranian people’s desire and right to overthrow the mullahs and establish
democracy and freedom in Iran is the greatest contribution to peace and
tranquility in the Middle East and the world."
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